Job 8

CHAPTER 8 Baldad Implies Job has Sinned

1 And undertaking, Baldad the Shuhite, says, 2 Till when shall you speak these things [²spirit ¹by a talkative] of your mouth? 3 Will the lord transgress judging? or the one making all things disturb the just? 4 If your sons sin before him, he sent them away in hand because of their lawlessness. 5 But you, rise early to the lord almighty beseeching him! 6 If you are pure and true, [³supplication ¹he will heed ²your], and he will restore to you the habitation of righteousness. 7 It will be then that as your first shall be little, yet your last will be an untold amount. 8 For ask [²generation ¹the first], and trace according to the race of the fathers! 9 [³of yesterday ¹For ²we are], and have not known; [⁸a shadow ¹for ²our ⁷is ³existence ⁴upon ⁵the ⁶earth]; 10 shall these not teach you, and announce to you, and from out of the heart lead forth sayings? 11 Does [²flourish ¹papyrus] without water? or shall [²rise up high ¹the flowering rush] without drinking? 12 Yet being upon the root, and in no way harvested, [³before ⁴the ⁵drinking ⁶of all ⁷pasturage ¹shall it not ²be dried]? 13 So therefore will it be for the last of all the ones forgetting the lord; for the hope of the impious shall perish. 14 [⁵uninhabited ¹For ²his ⁴will be ³house], [⁵as for ⁶a spider ¹and ²his ⁴will turn out to be ³tent]. 15 If one should overlook his house, in no way shall it stand; and grasping it, in no way shall it remain. 16 [³wet ¹For ²it is] under the sun, and [³out of ⁴his rottenness ¹his tender branch ²shall come forth]. 17 Upon a gathering of stones he goes to bed, and in the midst of gravel he shall live. 18 And if [³should swallow him ¹the ²place], it shall lie to him, saying, Have you not seen such a thing? 19 For the undoing of the impious is such, and from out of the earth another shall sprout up. 20 For the lord in no way will undo the guileless, and every gift of the impious he will not receive. 21 [³of the true ones ¹But ²the mouth] he will fill with laughter, and their lips with acknowledgment. 22 But their enemies shall put on shame; and the habitation of the impious will not be.