8:1 Then Bildad the Shuhite answered:
8:1 Then Bildad the Shuhite answered:

8:2 "How long will you say these things, and the words of your mouth be a great wind?
8:2 "How long will you say these things, and the words of your mouth be a great wind?

8:3 Does God pervert justice? Or does the Almighty pervert the right?
8:3 Does God pervert justice? Or does the Almighty pervert the right?

8:4 If your children have sinned against him, he has delivered them into the power of their transgression.
8:4 If your children sinned against him, he delivered them into the power of their transgression.

8:5 If you will seek God and make supplication to the Almighty,
8:5 If you will seek God and make supplication to the Almighty,

8:6 if you are pure and upright, surely then he will rouse himself for you and reward you with a rightful habitation.
8:6 if you are pure and upright, surely then he will rouse himself for you and restore to you your rightful place.

8:7 And though your beginning was small, your latter days will be very great.
8:7 Though your beginning was small, your latter days will be very great.

8:8 "For inquire, I pray you, of bygone ages, and consider what the fathers have found;
8:8 "For inquire now of bygone generations, and consider what their ancestors have found;

8:9 for we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, for our days on earth are a shadow.
8:9 for we are but of yesterday, and we know nothing, for our days on earth are but a shadow.

8:10 Will they not teach you, and tell you, and utter words out of their understanding?
8:10 Will they not teach you and tell you and utter words out of their understanding?

8:11 "Can papyrus grow where there is no marsh? Can reeds flourish where there is no water?
8:11 "Can papyrus grow where there is no marsh? Can reeds flourish where there is no water?

8:12 While yet in flower and not cut down, they wither before any other plant.
8:12 While yet in flower and not cut down, they wither before any other plant.

8:13 Such are the paths of all who forget God; the hope of the godless man shall perish.
8:13 Such are the paths of all who forget God; the hope of the godless shall perish.

8:14 His confidence breaks in sunder, and his trust is a spider's web.
8:14 Their confidence is gossamer, a spider's house their trust.

8:15 He leans against his house, but it does not stand; he lays hold of it, but it does not endure.
8:15 If one leans against its house, it will not stand; if one lays hold of it, it will not endure.

8:16 He thrives before the sun, and his shoots spread over his garden.
8:16 The wicked thrive before the sun, and their shoots spread over the garden.

8:17 His roots twine about the stoneheap; he lives among the rocks.
8:17 Their roots twine around the stoneheap; they live among the rocks.

8:18 If he is destroyed from his place, then it will deny him, saying, `I have never seen you.'
8:18 If they are destroyed from their place, then it will deny them, saying, 'I have never seen you.'

8:19 Behold, this is the joy of his way; and out of the earth others will spring.
8:19 See, these are their happy ways, and out of the earth still others will spring.

8:20 "Behold, God will not reject a blameless man, nor take the hand of evildoers.
8:20 "See, God will not reject a blameless person, nor take the hand of evildoers.

8:21 He will yet fill your mouth with laughter, and your lips with shouting.
8:21 He will yet fill your mouth with laughter, and your lips with shouts of joy.

8:22 Those who hate you will be clothed with shame, and the tent of the wicked will be no more."
8:22 Those who hate you will be clothed with shame, and the tent of the wicked will be no more."