en_wbms - Job 8 - Ozzuu Bible

¹ Then Bildad the Shuhite answer-ed, and said,

² How long shalt thou speak such things? The spirit of the word of thy mouth is manyfold.

³ Whether God supplanteth, either deceiveth, doom, and whether Almighty God destroyeth that, that is just [or rightwise]?

⁴ Yea, though thy sons sinned against him, and he left them in the hand of their wickedness;

⁵ nevertheless, if thou risest early to God, and beseechest Almighty God,

⁶ if thou goest clean and rightful, anon he shall wake fully to thee, and shall make peaceable the dwelling place of thy rightfulness [or rightwiseness];

⁷ in so much that thy former things were little, and that thy last things be multiplied greatly.

⁸ For why, ask thou the former generations, and seek thou diligently the mind of [the] fathers.

⁹ For we be men of yesterday, and know not; for our days be as a shadow on the earth.

¹⁰ And they shall teach thee, [and] they shall speak to thee, and of their heart they shall bring forth true speeches.

¹¹ Whether a bulrush may grow with-out moisture? either a reed without water?

¹² When it is yet in the flower, neither it is taken with hand, it waxeth dry before all herbs.

¹³ So be the ways of all men, that forget God; and the hope of an hypocrite shall perish.

¹⁴ His cowardice shall not please God, and his trust shall be as a web of spiders.

¹⁵ He shall lean, either rest, upon his house, and it shall not stand; he shall underset it, and it shall not rise up altogether.

¹⁶ The bulrush seemeth moist, before that the sun come; and in the rising of the sun, the seed thereof shall go out.

¹⁷ The roots thereof shall be made thick upon an heap of stones, and it shall dwell among [the] stones.

¹⁸ If a man draweth it out of the place thereof, that place shall deny it, and it shall say, I know thee not.

¹⁹ For this is the gladness of his way, that again other bulrushes spring out of the earth.

²⁰ Forsooth God shall not cast away a simple man, neither he shall dress his hand to help wicked men;

²¹ till thy mouth be filled with laughter, and thy lips with hearty song.

²² They that hate thee shall be clothed with shame; and the taber-nacle of wicked men shall not stand.