Job 8:8-22 ▼

8 For inquire, please, of a former generation, || And prepare for a search of their fathers,

9 For we [are] of yesterday, and we do not know, || For our days [are] a shadow on earth.

10 Do they not show you—speak to you, || And from their heart bring forth words?

11 Does a rush rise without a marsh? A reed increase without water?

12 While it [is] in its budding—uncropped, || Even before any herb it withers.

13 So [are] the paths of all forgetting God, || And the hope of the profane perishes,

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

15 He leans on his house—and it does not stand, || He takes hold on it—and it does not abide.

16 He [is] green before the sun, || And over his garden his branch goes out.

17 His roots are wrapped by a heap, || He looks for a house of stones.

18 If [one] destroys him from his place, || Then it has feigned concerning him, || I have not seen you!

19 Behold, this [is] the joy of His way, || And from the dust others spring up.

20 Behold, God does not reject the perfect, || Nor takes hold on the hand of evildoers.

21 While He fills your mouth with laughter, || And your lips with shouting,

22 Those hating you put on shame, || And the tent of the wicked is not!”