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Bildad Says God Rewards the Good | ||||
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| 1 Then Bildad the Shuhite answered, | 1 Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said, | 1 Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said, | 1 The Baldad the Suhite answered, and said: | 1 And Bildad the Shuhite answereth and saith: -- | 2 "How long will you say these things, And the words of your mouth be a mighty wind? | 2 How long wilt thou speak these things? and how long shall the words of thy mouth be like a strong wind? | 2 How long wilt thou speak these things? And how long'shall the words of thy mouth be like a mighty wind? | 2 How long wilt thou speak these things, and how long shall the words of thy mouth be like a strong wind? | 2 Till when dost thou speak these things? And a strong wind -- sayings of thy mouth? | 3 "Does God pervert justice? Or does the Almighty pervert what is right? | 3 Doth God pervert judgment? or doth the Almighty pervert justice? | 3 Doth God pervert justice? Or doth the Almighty pervert righteousness? | 3 Doth God pervert judgment, or doth the Almighty overthrow that which is just? | 3 Doth God pervert judgment? And doth the Mighty One pervert justice? | 4 "If your sons sinned against Him, Then He delivered them into the power of their transgression. | 4 If thy children have sinned against him, and he have cast them away for their transgression; | 4 If thy children have sinned against him, And he hath delivered them into the hand of their transgression; | 4 Although thy children have sinned against him, and he hath left them in the hand of their iniquity: | 4 If thy sons have sinned before Him, And He doth send them away, By the hand of their transgression, | 5 "If you would seek God And implore the compassion of the Almighty, | 5 If thou wouldest seek unto God betimes, and make thy supplication to the Almighty; | 5 If thou wouldest seek diligently unto God, And make thy supplication to the Almighty; | 5 Yet if thou wilt arise early to God, and wilt beseech the Almighty: | 5 If thou dost seek early unto God, And unto the Mighty makest supplication, | NASB | KJV | ASV | DRB | YLT |
| 6 If you are pure and upright, Surely now He would rouse Himself for you And restore your righteous estate. | 6 If thou wert pure and upright; surely now he would awake for thee, and make the habitation of thy righteousness prosperous. | 6 If thou wert pure and upright: Surely now he would awake for thee, And make the habitation of thy righteousness prosperous. | 6 If thou wilt walk clean and upright, he will presently awake onto thee, and will make the dwelling of thy justice peaceable: | 6 If pure and upright thou art, Surely now He waketh for thee, And hath completed The habitation of thy righteousness. | 7 "Though your beginning was insignificant, Yet your end will increase greatly. | 7 Though thy beginning was small, yet thy latter end should greatly increase. | 7 And though thy beginning was small, Yet thy latter end would greatly increase. | 7 Insomuch, that if thy former things were small, thy latter things would be multiplied exceedingly. | 7 And thy beginning hath been small, And thy latter end is very great. | 8 "Please inquire of past generations, And consider the things searched out by their fathers. | 8 For enquire, I pray thee, of the former age, and prepare thyself to the search of their fathers: | 8 For inquire, I pray thee, of the former age, And apply thyself to that which their fathers have searched out: | 8 For inquire of the former generation, and search diligently into the memory of the fathers: | 8 For, ask I pray thee of a former generation, And prepare to a search of their fathers, | 9 "For we are only of yesterday and know nothing, Because our days on earth are as a shadow. | 9 (For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth are a shadow:) | 9 (For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, Because our days upon earth are a shadow); | 9 (For we are but of yesterday, and are ignorant that our days upon earth are but a shadow:) | 9 (For of yesterday we are, and we know not, For a shadow are our days on earth.) | 10 "Will they not teach you and tell you, And bring forth words from their minds? | 10 Shall not they teach thee, and tell thee, and utter words out of their heart? | 10 Shall not they teach thee, and tell thee, And utter words out of their heart? | 10 And they shall teach thee: they shall speak to thee, and utter words out of their hearts. | 10 Do they not shew thee -- speak to thee, And from their heart bring forth words? | NASB | KJV | ASV | DRB | YLT |
| 11 "Can the papyrus grow up without a marsh? Can the rushes grow without water? | 11 Can the rush grow up without mire? can the flag grow without water? | 11 Can the rush grow up without mire? Can the flag grow without water? | 11 Can the rush be green without moisture? or a sedge-bush grow without water? | 11 'Doth a rush wise without mire? A reed increase without water? | 12 "While it is still green and not cut down, Yet it withers before any other plant. | 12 Whilst it is yet in his greenness, and not cut down, it withereth before any other herb. | 12 Whilst it is yet in its greenness, and not cut down, It withereth before any other herb. | 12 When it is yet in flower, and is not plucked up with the hand, it withereth before all herbs. | 12 While it is in its budding -- uncropped, Even before any herb it withereth. | 13 "So are the paths of all who forget God; And the hope of the godless will perish, | 13 So are the paths of all that forget God; and the hypocrite's hope shall perish: | 13 So are the paths of all that forget God; And the hope of the godless man shall perish: | 13 Even so are the ways of all that forget God, and the hope of the hypocrite shall perish: | 13 So are the paths of all forgetting God, And the hope of the profane doth perish, | 14 Whose confidence is fragile, And whose trust a spider's web. | 14 Whose hope shall be cut off, and whose trust shall be a spider's web. | 14 Whose confidence shall break in sunder, And whose trust is a spider's web. | 14 His folly shall not please him, and his trust shall be like the spider's web. | 14 Whose confidence is loathsome, And the house of a spider his trust. | 15 "He trusts in his house, but it does not stand; He holds fast to it, but it does not endure. | 15 He shall lean upon his house, but it shall not stand: he shall hold it fast, but it shall not endure. | 15 He shall lean upon his house, but it shall not stand: He shall hold fast thereby, but it shall not endure. | 15 He shall lean upon his house, and it shall not stand: he shall prop it up, and it shall not rise: | 15 He leaneth on his house -- and it standeth not: He taketh hold on it -- and it abideth not. | NASB | KJV | ASV | DRB | YLT |
| 16 "He thrives before the sun, And his shoots spread out over his garden. | 16 He is green before the sun, and his branch shooteth forth in his garden. | 16 He is green before the sun, And his shoots go forth over his garden. | 16 He seemeth to have moisture before the sun cometh, and at his rising his blossom shall shoot forth. | 16 Green he is before the sun, And over his garden his branch goeth out. | 17 "His roots wrap around a rock pile, He grasps a house of stones. | 17 His roots are wrapped about the heap, and seeth the place of stones. | 17 His roots are wrapped about the'stone -heap, He beholdeth the place of stones. | 17 His roots shall be thick upon a heap of stones, and among the stones he shall abide. | 17 By a heap his roots are wrapped, A house of stones he looketh for. | 18 "If he is removed from his place, Then it will deny him, saying, 'I never saw you.' | 18 If he destroy him from his place, then it shall deny him, saying, I have not seen thee. | 18 If he be destroyed from his place, Then it shall deny him,'saying , I have not seen thee. | 18 If one swallow him up out of his place, he shall deny him, and shall say: I know thee not. | 18 If one doth destroy him from his place, Then it hath feigned concerning him, I have not seen thee! | 19 "Behold, this is the joy of His way; And out of the dust others will spring. | 19 Behold, this is the joy of his way, and out of the earth shall others grow. | 19 Behold, this is the joy of his way; And out of the earth shall others spring. | 19 For this is the joy of his way, that others may spring again out of the earth. | 19 Lo, this is the joy of his way, And from the dust others spring up.' | 20 "Lo, God will not reject a man of integrity, Nor will He support the evildoers. | 20 Behold, God will not cast away a perfect man, neither will he help the evil doers: | 20 Behold, God will not cast away a perfect man, Neither will he uphold the evil-doers. | 20 God will not cast away the simple, nor reach out his hand to the evildoer: | 20 Lo, God doth not reject the perfect, Nor taketh hold on the hand of evil doers. | NASB | KJV | ASV | DRB | YLT |
| 21 "He will yet fill your mouth with laughter And your lips with shouting. | 21 Till he fill thy mouth with laughing, and thy lips with rejoicing. | 21 He will yet fill thy mouth with laughter, And thy lips with shouting. | 21 Until thy mouth be filled with laughter, and thy lips with rejoicing. | 21 While he filleth with laughter thy mouth, And thy lips with shouting, | 22 "Those who hate you will be clothed with shame, And the tent of the wicked will be no longer." | 22 They that hate thee shall be clothed with shame; and the dwelling place of the wicked shall come to nought. | 22 They that hate thee shall be clothed with shame; And the tent of the wicked shall be no more. | 22 They that hate thee, shall be clothed with confusion: and the dwelling of the wicked shall not stand. | 22 Those hating thee do put on shame, And the tent of the wicked is not! |
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