8:1. Then Baldad, the Suhite, answered, and said:
8:2. How long wilt thou speak these things, and how long shall the words
of thy mouth be like a strong wind?
8:3. Doth God pervert judgment, or doth the Almighty overthrow that
which is just?
8:4. Although thy children have sinned against him, and he hath left
them in the hand of their iniquity:
8:5. Yet if thou wilt arise early to God, and wilt beseech the Almighty:
8:6. If thou wilt walk clean and upright, he will presently awake unto
thee, and will make the dwelling of thy justice peaceable:
8:7. In so much, that if thy former things were small thy latter things
would be multiplied exceedingly.
8:8. For inquire of the former generation, and search diligently into
the memory of the fathers:
8:9. (For we are but of yesterday, and are ignorant that our days upon
earth are but a shadow.)
8:10. And they shall teach thee: they shall speak to thee, and utter
words out of their hearts.
8:11. Can the rush be green without moisture? or sedge bush grow without
water?
8:12. When it is yet in flower, and is not plucked u with the hand, it
withereth before all herbs.
8:13. Even so are the ways of all that forget God, an the hope of the
hypocrite shall perish:
8:14. His folly shall not please him, and his trust shall be like the
spider's web.
8:15. He shall lean upon his house, and it shall no stand: he shall prop
it up, and it shall not rise:
8:16. He seemeth to have moisture before the sun cometh; and at his
rising, his blossom shall shoot forth.
8:17. His roots shall be thick upon a heap of stones; and among the
stones he shall abide.
8:18. If one swallow him up out of his place, he shall deny him, and
shall say: I know thee not.
8:19. For this is the joy of his way, that others may spring again out
of the earth.
8:20. God will not cast away the simple, nor reach out his hand to the
evil doer:
8:21. Until thy mouth be filled with laughter, and thy lips with
rejoicing.
8:22. They that hate thee, shall be clothed with confusion: and the
dwelling of the wicked shall not stand.