Job 8:1-9 ▼

1 But Baldad the Suhite, responding, said:

2 How long will you speak this way, so that the words of your mouth are like a changeable wind?

3 Does God supplant judgment, or does the Almighty subvert that which is just?

4 And if now your children have sinned against him, and he has dismissed them into the power of their iniquity,

5 even so, you should arise early to God, so as to beseech the Almighty.

6 If you approach with purity and honesty, he will quickly be attentive to you, and a peaceful life will repay your righteousness,

7 so much so that, if your former things were small, your latter things would be multiplied greatly.

8 For inquire of the earliest generation, and investigate diligently the history of the fathers,

9 (of course, we are but of yesterday and are ignorant that our days on earth are like a shadow,)