### Darby's English Translation

Job 7

## The Book of Job

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| # Chapter 8
| And Bildad the Shuhite answered and said,
| How long wilt thou speak these things? and the words of thy mouth be a strong wind?
| Doth łGod pervert judgment, and the Almighty pervert justice?
| If thy children have sinned against him, he hath also given them over into the hand of their transgression.
| If thou seek earnestly unto łGod, and make thy supplication to the Almighty,
| If thou be pure and upright, surely now he will awake for thee, and make the habitation of thy righteousness prosperous;
| And though thy beginning was small, yet thine end shall be very great.
| For inquire, I pray thee, of the former generation, and attend to the researches of their fathers;
| For we are [but] of yesterday, and know nothing, for our days upon earth are a shadow.
| Shall not they teach thee, [and] tell thee, and utter words out of their heart?
| Doth the papyrus shoot up without mire? doth the reed-grass grow without water?
| Whilst it is yet in its greenness [and] not cut down, it withereth before any [other] grass.
| So are the paths of all that forget łGod; and the profane man's hope shall perish,
| Whose confidence shall be cut off, and his reliance is a spider's web.
| He shall lean upon his house, and it shall not stand; he shall lay hold on it, but it shall not endure.
| He is full of sap before the sun, and his sprout shooteth forth over his garden;
| His roots are entwined about the stoneheap; he seeth the place of stones.
| If he destroy him from his place, then it shall deny him: I have not seen thee!
| Behold, this is the joy of his way, and out of the dust shall others grow.
| Behold, łGod will not cast off a perfect man, neither will he take evil-doers by the hand.
| Whilst he would fill thy mouth with laughing and thy lips with shouting,
| They that hate thee shall be clothed with shame, and the tent of the wicked be no more.

Job 9

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