JobJudaism / Hebrew BibleAccepted ScriptureBiblical Hebrew / AramaicShareJob 8Douay - EnglishMoreVersion - 9 availableWorld English BibleKing James VersionAmerican Standard VersionDarby BibleYoung's Literal TranslationWebster BibleGeneva BibleDouay-Rheims ChallonerReina-Valera 1909WEBKJVASVDarbyYLTWebsterGenevaDouayRV1909LanguageEnglishEspañol‹Job 1Job 2Job 3Job 4Job 5Job 6Job 7Job 8Job 9Job 10Job 11Job 12Job 13Job 14Job 15Job 16Job 17Job 18Job 19Job 20Job 21Job 22Job 23Job 24Job 25Job 26Job 27Job 28Job 29Job 30Job 31Job 32Job 33Job 34Job 35Job 36Job 37Job 38Job 39Job 40Job 41Job 42›Job 8ListenPlay this chapter in spoken English.Save chapterListen to chapter1Then Baldad, the Suhite, answered, and said: 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 overthrow that which is just? 4Although thy children have sinned against him, and he hath left them in the hand of their iniquity: 5Yet if thou wilt arise early to God, and wilt beseech the Almighty: 6If thou wilt walk clean and upright, he will presently awake unto thee, and will make the dwelling of thy justice peaceable: 7In so much, that if thy former things were small thy latter things would be multiplied exceedingly. 8For inquire of the former generation, and search diligently into the memory of the fathers: 9(For we are but of yesterday, and are ignorant that our days upon earth are but a shadow) 10And they shall teach thee: they shall speak to thee, and utter words out of their hearts. 11Can the rush be green without moisture? or sedge bush grow without water? 12When it is yet in flower, and is not plucked up with the hand, it withereth before all herbs. 13Even so are the ways of all that forget God, and the hope of the hypocrite shall perish: 14His folly shall not please him, and his trust shall be like the spider's web. 15He shall lean upon his house, and it shall not stand: he shall prop it up, and it shall not rise: 16He seemeth to have moisture before the sun cometh; and at his rising, his blossom shall shoot forth. 17His roots shall be thick upon a heap of stones; and among the stones he shall abide. 18If one swallow him up out of his place, he shall deny him, and shall say: I know thee not. 19For this is the joy of his way, that others may spring again out of the earth. 20God will not cast away the simple, nor reach out his hand to the evil doer: 21Until thy mouth be filled with laughter, and thy lips with rejoicing. 22They that hate thee, shall be clothed with confusion: and the dwelling of the wicked shall not stand. ‹Previous chapterJob 7Next chapterJob 9›Similar passagesBy tradition and source labelFind similarCompare selectedCompare with similarAsk Deep ThoughtSelect passages to search for parallels.VersionsJob 8 across 9 versionsShow all 9WEB - World English BibleKJV - King James VersionASV - American Standard VersionDarby - Darby BibleYLT - Young's Literal TranslationWebster - Webster BibleGeneva - Geneva BibleDouay - Douay-Rheims ChallonerRV1909 - Reina-Valera 1909Tap any verse to select it, then compare selected passages or ask Deep Thought. Public Domain