8:1 And Bildad the Shuhite answereth and saith: --

8:2 Till when dost thou speak these things? And a strong wind -- sayings of thy mouth?

8:3 Doth God pervert judgment? And doth the Mighty One pervert justice?

8:4 If thy sons have sinned before Him, And He doth send them away, By the hand of their transgression,

8:5 If thou dost seek early unto God, And unto the Mighty makest supplication,

8:6 If pure and upright thou [art], Surely now He waketh for thee, And hath completed The habitation of thy righteousness.

8:7 And thy beginning hath been small, And thy latter end is very great.

8:8 For, ask I pray thee of a former generation, And prepare to a search of their fathers,

8:9 (For of yesterday we [are], and we know not, For a shadow [are] our days on earth.)

8:10 Do they not shew thee -- speak to thee, And from their heart bring forth words?

8:11 `Doth a rush wise without mire? A reed increase without water?

8:12 While it [is] in its budding -- uncropt, Even before any herb it withereth.

8:13 So [are] the paths of all forgetting God, And the hope of the profane doth perish,

8:14 Whose confidence is loathsome, And the house of a spider his trust.

8:15 He leaneth on his house -- and it standeth not: He taketh hold on it -- and it abideth not.

8:16 Green he [is] before the sun, And over his garden his branch goeth out.

8:17 By a heap his roots are wrapped, A house of stones he looketh for.

8:18 If [one] doth destroy him from his place, Then it hath feigned concerning him, I have not seen thee!

8:19 Lo, this [is] the joy of his way, And from the dust others spring up.`

8:20 Lo, God doth not reject the perfect, Nor taketh hold on the hand of evil doers.

8:21 While he filleth with laughter thy mouth, And thy lips with shouting,