Job 8

¹But Baldad the Suhite answering, said:

²How long wilt thou speak such things, & shall the spirit of the word of thy mouth be multiplied?

³Why, doth God supplant judgment? Or doth the Omnipotent subvert that which is just?

⁴Although thy children have sinned to him, and he hath left them in the hand of their iniquity:

⁵Yet if thou wilt arise early to God, & wilt beseech the Omnipotent:

⁶If thou wilt walk clean & upright, he will forthwith awake unto thee, and will make the habitation of thy justice peaceable:

⁷In so much, that if thy former things have been little, thy later things may be multiplied exceedingly.

⁸For ask the old generation, and search diligently the memory of the fathers.

⁹(For we are but as yesterday, & are ignorant that our days upon the earth are as a shadow.)

¹⁰And they shall teach thee: they shall speak to thee, and from their heart shall utter words.

¹¹Can the rush be green without moisture? Or a sedgy place grow without water?

¹²When it is yet in his flower, and is not plucked with the hand, it withereth before all herbs:

¹³Even so the ways of all, that forget God, and the hope of the hypocrite shall perish:

¹⁴His folly shall not please him, and his confidence as the spiders' web.

¹⁵He shall lean upon his house, and it shall not stand: he shall stay it up, and it shall not rise:

¹⁶He seemeth moistened before the sun come, & in his rising his blossom shall go forth.

¹⁷Upon a heap of rocks his roots shall be thick, and among stones he shall abide.

¹⁸If he swallow him up out of his place, he will deny him, and will say: I know thee not.

¹⁹For this is the joy of his way, that others may spring again of the earth.

²⁰God will not reject the simple, nor reach his hand to the malignant.

²¹Until thy mouth be filled with laughter, & thy lips with jubilation.

²²They that hate thee, shall be clothed with confusion: and the tabernacle of the impious shall not stand.