Iyov 8

Orthodox Jewish Bible

8 Then answered Bildad the Shuchi, and said,

² How long wilt thou speak these things? And how long shall the words of thy mouth be like a raging ruach (wind)?

³ Doth El pervert mishpat (justice)? Or doth Shaddai pervert tzedek?

⁴ If thy banim have sinned against Him, and He have cast them away for their peysha (transgression);

⁵ If thou wouldest seek El (G-d) earnestly, and make thy techinnah (supplication) to Shaddai;

⁶ If thou wert pure and yashar; surely now He would rouse Himself for thee, and restore the habitation of thy tzedek.

⁷ Though thy reshit (beginning) was small, yet thy acharit (end) shall be exceedingly great.

⁸ For inquire, now, of the dor rishon (former age), and consider the research of their avot;

⁹ —For we are but of temol (yesterday, etmol) and know nothing, because yameinu (our days) upon earth are a tzel (shadow)—

¹⁰ Shall not they teach thee, and tell thee, and bring forth words out of their lev?

¹¹ Can the papyrus grow up without marsh? Can the reed grow without mayim?

¹² Whilst it is yet in its greenness, and not cut down, it withereth before kol khatzir (all grass).

¹³ So are the paths of all that forget El (G-d), and the tikvat chanef (hope of the hypocrite, the irreligious, the secretly wicked profane person) shall perish,

¹⁴ Whose hope shall be cut off, and whose reliance shall be a bais akavish (spider’s web).

¹⁵ He shall lean upon his bais, but it shall not stand, he shall cling to it, but it shall not hold.

¹⁶ He is like a green plant before the shemesh, and its branch shooteth forth in its gan (garden).

¹⁷ Its shorashim (roots) are wrapped about the rock heap, and it looks on the bais avanim (place of stones).

¹⁸ But when cast away from its makom, then its place shall deny it, saying, Loh re’iticha (I never saw thee).

¹⁹ Behold, thus was the joy of its derech, and others spring forth from the aphar (dust).

²⁰ Surely El (G-d) will not cast away a blameless man, neither will He help the resha’im (evil-doers);

²¹ Till He fill thy mouth with sechok (laughter), and thy lips with teruah (shouts of joy).

²² They that hate thee shall be clothed with bushah (shame), and the ohel resha’im shall be no more.