The Book of Job

Chapter-8

Job 8:1 But Baldad the Suhite, responding, said:

 

Job 8:2 How long will you speak this way, so that the words of your mouth are like a changeable wind?

 

Job 8:3 Does God supplant judgment, or does the Almighty subvert that which is just?

 

Job 8:4 And if now your children have sinned against him, and he has dismissed them into the power of their iniquity,

 

Job 8:5 even so, you should arise early to God, so as to beseech the Almighty.

 

Job 8:6 If you approach with purity and honesty, he will quickly be attentive to you, and a peaceful life will repay your righteousness,

 

Job 8:7 so much so that, if your former things were small, your latter things would be multiplied greatly.

 

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

 

Job 8:9 (of course, we are but of yesterday and are ignorant that our days on earth are like a shadow,)

 

Job 8:10 and they will teach you; they will speak with you and will offer you the eloquence of their hearts.

 

Job 8:11 Can the marsh plant live without moisture? Or can sedges grow without water?

 

Job 8:12 When it is still in flower, and has not been pulled up by hand, it withers before all other plants.

 

Job 8:13 Just so are the ways of all who forget God, and the hope of the hypocrite will perish.

 

Job 8:14 His frenzy will not please him, and his faith will be like a spider’s web.

 

Job 8:15 He will lean on his house, and it will not stand; he will prop it up, but it will not rise.

 

Job 8:16 He seems to have moisture before the sun arrives; and at sunrise, his sprout shoots forth.

 

Job 8:17 His roots will crowd together over a heap of stones, and among the stones he will remain.

 

Job 8:18 If someone is devoured right beside him, he will deny him and will say: “I do not know you.”

 

Job 8:19 For this is the benefit of his way, that others in turn may spring up from the earth.

 

Job 8:20 God will not discard the simple, nor will he extend his hand to the spiteful,

 

Job 8:21 even until your mouth is filled with laughter and your lips with rejoicing.

 

Job 8:22 Those who hate you, will be clothed with confusion, and the tabernacle of the impious will not continue.