Job 8
New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
Bildad Speaks: Job Should Repent
8 Then Bildad the Shuhite answered:
2 “How long will you say these things,
and the words of your mouth be a great wind?
3 Does God pervert justice?
Or does the Almighty[a] pervert the right?
4 If your children sinned against him,
he delivered them into the power of their transgression.
5 If you will seek God
and make supplication to the Almighty,[b]
6 if you are pure and upright,
surely then he will rouse himself for you
and restore to you your rightful place.
7 Though your beginning was small,
your latter days will be very great.
8 “For inquire now of bygone generations,
and consider what their ancestors have found;
9 for we are but of yesterday, and we know nothing,
for our days on earth are but a shadow.
10 Will they not teach you and tell you
and utter words out of their understanding?
11 “Can papyrus grow where there is no marsh?
Can reeds flourish where there is no water?
12 While yet in flower and not cut down,
they wither before any other plant.
13 Such are the paths of all who forget God;
the hope of the godless shall perish.
14 Their confidence is gossamer,
a spider’s house their trust.
15 If one leans against its house, it will not stand;
if one lays hold of it, it will not endure.
16 The wicked thrive[c] before the sun,
and their shoots spread over the garden.
17 Their roots twine around the stoneheap;
they live among the rocks.[d]
18 If they are destroyed from their place,
then it will deny them, saying, ‘I have never seen you.’
19 See, these are their happy ways,[e]
and out of the earth still others will spring.
20 “See, God will not reject a blameless person,
nor take the hand of evildoers.
21 He will yet fill your mouth with laughter,
and your lips with shouts of joy.
22 Those who hate you will be clothed with shame,
and the tent of the wicked will be no more.”
约伯记 8
Chinese Union Version Modern Punctuation (Simplified)
比勒达言神公义无私
8 书亚人比勒达回答说： 2 “这些话你要说到几时？口中的言语如狂风要到几时呢？ 3 神岂能偏离公平？全能者岂能偏离公义？ 4 或者你的儿女得罪了他，他使他们受报应。 5 你若殷勤地寻求神，向全能者恳求， 6 你若清洁正直，他必定为你起来，使你公义的居所兴旺。 7 你起初虽然微小，终久必甚发达。
8 “请你考问前代，追念他们的列祖所查究的。 9 （我们不过从昨日才有，一无所知，我们在世的日子好像影儿。） 10 他们岂不指教你，告诉你，从心里发出言语来呢？
不虔敬者终遭绝灭
11 “蒲草没有泥，岂能发长？芦荻没有水，岂能生发？ 12 尚青的时候，还没有割下，比百样的草先枯槁。 13 凡忘记神的人，景况也是这样。不虔敬人的指望要灭没， 14 他所仰赖的必折断，他所倚靠的是蜘蛛网。 15 他要倚靠房屋，房屋却站立不住；他要抓住房屋，房屋却不能存留。 16 他在日光之下发青，蔓子爬满了园子； 17 他的根盘绕石堆，扎入石地。 18 他若从本地被拔出，那地就不认识他，说：‘我没有见过你。’ 19 看哪，这就是他道中之乐，以后必另有人从地而生。
神不弃完人
20 “神必不丢弃完全人，也不扶助邪恶人。 21 他还要以喜笑充满你的口，以欢呼充满你的嘴。 22 恨恶你的要披戴惭愧，恶人的帐篷必归于无有。”
Job 8
King James Version
8 Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,
2 How long wilt thou speak these things? and how long shall the words of thy mouth be like a strong wind?
3 Doth God pervert judgment? or doth the Almighty pervert justice?
4 If thy children have sinned against him, and he have cast them away for their transgression;
5 If thou wouldest seek unto God betimes, and make thy supplication to the Almighty;
6 If thou wert pure and upright; surely now he would awake for thee, and make the habitation of thy righteousness prosperous.
7 Though thy beginning was small, yet thy latter end should greatly increase.
8 For 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:)
10 Shall not they teach thee, and tell thee, and utter words out of their heart?
11 Can the rush grow up without mire? can the flag grow without water?
12 Whilst it is yet in his greenness, and not cut down, it withereth before any other herb.
13 So are the paths of all that forget God; and the hypocrite's hope shall perish:
14 Whose hope shall be cut off, and whose trust shall be a spider's web.
15 He shall lean upon his house, but it shall not stand: he shall hold it fast, but it shall not endure.
16 He is green before the sun, and his branch shooteth forth in his garden.
17 His roots are wrapped about the heap, and seeth the place of stones.
18 If he destroy him from his place, then it shall deny him, saying, I have not seen thee.
19 Behold, this is the joy of his way, and out of the earth shall others grow.
20 Behold, God will not cast away a perfect man, neither will he help the evil doers:
21 Till he fill thy mouth with laughing, and thy lips with rejoicing.
22 They that hate thee shall be clothed with shame; and the dwelling place of the wicked shall come to nought.
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