1 And Bildad the Shuhite answereth and saith: — YLT — Job 8:1
2 Till when dost thou speak these things? And a strong wind — sayings of thy mouth? YLT — Job 8:2
3 Doth God pervert judgment? And doth the Mighty One pervert justice? YLT — Job 8:3
4 If thy sons have sinned before Him, And He doth send them away, By the hand of their transgression, YLT — Job 8:4
5 If thou dost seek early unto God, And unto the Mighty makest supplication, YLT — Job 8:5
6 If pure and upright thou [art], Surely now He waketh for thee, And hath completed The habitation of thy righteousness. YLT — Job 8:6
7 And thy beginning hath been small, And thy latter end is very great. YLT — Job 8:7
8 For, ask I pray thee of a former generation, And prepare to a search of their fathers, YLT — Job 8:8
9 (For of yesterday we [are], and we know not, For a shadow [are] our days on earth.) YLT — Job 8:9
10 Do they not shew thee — speak to thee, And from their heart bring forth words? YLT — Job 8:10
11 ’Doth a rush wise without mire? A reed increase without water? YLT — Job 8:11
12 While it [is] in its budding — uncropt, Even before any herb it withereth. YLT — Job 8:12
13 So [are] the paths of all forgetting God, And the hope of the profane doth perish, YLT — Job 8:13
14 Whose confidence is loathsome, And the house of a spider his trust. YLT — Job 8:14
15 He leaneth on his house — and it standeth not: He taketh hold on it — and it abideth not. YLT — Job 8:15
16 Green he [is] before the sun, And over his garden his branch goeth out. YLT — Job 8:16
17 By a heap his roots are wrapped, A house of stones he looketh for. YLT — Job 8:17
18 If [one] doth destroy him from his place, Then it hath feigned concerning him, I have not seen thee! YLT — Job 8:18
19 Lo, this [is] the joy of his way, And from the dust others spring up.’ YLT — Job 8:19
20 Lo, God doth not reject the perfect, Nor taketh hold on the hand of evil doers. YLT — Job 8:20
21 While he filleth with laughter thy mouth, And thy lips with shouting, YLT — Job 8:21
22 Those hating thee do put on shame, And the tent of the wicked is not! YLT — Job 8:22