Job 8:1-13 ▼

1 And Bildad the Shuhite answereth and saith: --

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

12 While it is in its budding -- uncropped, Even before any herb it withereth.

13 So are the paths of all forgetting God, And the hope of the profane doth perish,