Job 8

₂How long wilt thou speak these things?

And how long shall the words of thy mouth be like a strong wind?

₃Doth God pervert judgment?

Or doth the Almighty pervert justice?

₄If thy children have sinned against him,

And he have cast them away for their transgression;

₅If thou wouldest seek unto God betimes,

And make thy supplication to the Almighty;

₆If thou wert pure and upright;

Surely now he would awake for thee,

And make the habitation of thy righteousness prosperous.

₇Though thy beginning was small,

Yet thy latter end should greatly increase.

₈For enquire, I pray thee, of the former age,

And prepare thyself to the search of their fathers:

₉(For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing,

Because our days upon earth are a shadow:)

₁₀Shall not they teach thee, and tell thee,

And utter words out of their heart?

₁₁Can the rush grow up without mire?

Can the flag grow without water?

₁₂Whilst it is yet in his greenness, and not cut down,

It withereth before any other herb.

₁₃So are the paths of all that forget God;

And the hypocrite's hope shall perish:

₁₄Whose hope shall be cut off,

And whose trust shall be a spider's web.

₁₅He shall lean upon his house, but it shall not stand:

He shall hold it fast, but it shall not endure.

₁₆He is green before the sun,

And his branch shooteth forth in his garden.

₁₇His roots are wrapped about the heap,

And seeth the place of stones.

₁₈If he destroy him from his place,

Then it shall deny him, saying,

I have not seen thee.

₁₉Behold, this is the joy of his way,

And out of the earth shall others grow.

₂₀Behold, God will not cast away a perfect man,

Neither will he help the evil doers:

₂₁Till he fill thy mouth with laughing,

And thy lips with rejoicing.

₂₂They that hate thee shall be clothed with shame;

And the dwelling place of the wicked shall come to nought.