1898 Young's Literal Translation (YLT)

Job 8

1 Bildad sheweth God's justice in dealing with men according to their works. 8 He alledgeth antiquity to prove the certain destruction of the hypocrite. 20 He applieth God's just dealings to Job.

 8:1 ¶ And Bildad the Shuhite answereth and saith:—

 8:2 Till when dost thou speak these things? And a strong wind—sayings of thy mouth?

 8:3 Doth God pervert judgment? And doth the Mighty One pervert justice?

 8:4 If thy sons have sinned before Him, And He doth send them away, By the hand of their transgression,

 8:5 If thou dost seek early unto God, And unto the Mighty makest supplication,

 8:6 If pure and upright thou [art], Surely now He waketh for thee, And hath completed The habitation of thy righteousness.

 8:7 And thy beginning hath been small, And thy latter end is very great.

 8:8 For, ask I pray thee of a former generation, And prepare to a search of their fathers,

 8:9 (For of yesterday we [are], and we know not, For a shadow [are] our days on earth.)

 8:10 Do they not shew thee—speak to thee, And from their heart bring forth words?

 8:11 'Doth a rush wise without mire? A reed increase without water?

 8:12 While it [is] in its budding—uncropped, Even before any herb it withereth.

 8:13 So [are] the paths of all forgetting God, And the hope of the profane doth perish,

 8:14 Whose confidence is loathsome, And the house of a spider his trust.

 8:15 He leaneth on his house—and it standeth not: He taketh hold on it—and it abideth not.

 8:16 Green he [is] before the sun, And over his garden his branch goeth out.

 8:17 By a heap his roots are wrapped, A house of stones he looketh for.

 8:18 If [one] doth destroy him from his place, Then it hath feigned concerning him, I have not seen thee!

 8:19 Lo, this [is] the joy of his way, And from the dust others spring up.'

 8:20 Lo, God doth not reject the perfect, Nor taketh hold on the hand of evil doers.

 8:21 While he filleth with laughter thy mouth, And thy lips with shouting,

 8:22 Those hating thee do put on shame, And the tent of the wicked is not!