Job 8

¹But Baldad the Suhite, responding, said

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

³Does God supplant judgment, or does the Almighty subvert that which is just

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

⁵even so, you should arise early to God, so as to beseech the Almighty

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

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

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

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

¹⁰and they will teach you; they will speak with you and will offer you the eloquence of their hearts

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

²¹even until your mouth is filled with laughter and your lips with rejoicing

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