Douay Rheims Original ↷
Job 8 📜 📕 ↷
Bildad: Job Should Repent
1 BUT Baldad the Suhite answering, said:📜💬📚
2 How long wilt thou speak such things, & shall the spirit of the word of thy mouth be multiplied?📜💬📚
3 Why, doth God supplant judgment? Or doth the Omnipotent subvert that which is just?📜💬📚
4 Although thy children have sinned to him, and he hath left them in the hand of their iniquity:📜💬📚
5 Yet if thou wilt arise early to God, & wilt beseech the Omnipotent:📜💬📚
6 If thou wilt walk clean & upright, he will forthwith awake unto thee, and will make the habitation of thy justice peaceable:📜💬📚
7 In so much, that if thy former things have been little, thy later things may be multiplied exceedingly.📜💬📚
8 For ask the old generation, and search diligently the memory of the fathers.📜💬📚
9 (For we are but as yesterday, & are ignorant that our days upon the earth are as a shadow.)📜💬📚
10 And they shall teach thee: they shall speak to thee, and from their heart shall utter words.📜💬📚
11 Can the rush be green without moisture? Or a sedgy place grow without water?📜💬📚
12 When it is yet in his flower, and is not plucked with the hand, it withereth before all herbs:📜💬📚
13 Even so the ways of all, that forget God, and the hope of the hypocrite shall perish:📜💬📚
14 His folly shall not please him, and his confidence as the spider's web.📜💬📚
15 He shall lean upon his house, and it shall not stand: he shall stay it up, and it shall not rise:📜💬📚
16 He seemeth moistened before the sun come, & in his rising his blossom shall go forth.📜💬📚
17 Upon a heap of rocks his roots shall be thick, and among stones he shall abide.📜💬📚
18 If he swallow him up out of his place, he will deny him, and will say: I know thee not.📜💬📚
19 For this is the joy of his way, that others may spring again of the earth.📜💬📚
20 God will not reject the simple, nor reach his hand to the malignant.📜💬📚
21 Until thy mouth be filled with laughter, & thy lips with jubilation.📜💬📚
22 They that hate thee, shall be clothed with confusion: and the tabernacle of the impious shall not stand.📜💬📚
Next Chapter: Job 9
Copyright © 2025 by Narrow Gate Bible Productions. All Rights Reserved.
