# Job 8 ## Job 8:1 - [KJV] Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said, - [ASV] Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said, - [YLT] And Bildad the Shuhite answereth and saith: -- ### Notes on Job 8:1 - ## Job 8:2 - [KJV] How long wilt thou speak these *things*? and *how long shall* the words of thy mouth *be like* a strong wind? - [ASV] How long wilt thou speak these things? And *how long* shall the words of thy mouth be *like* a mighty wind? - [YLT] Till when dost thou speak these things? And a strong wind -- sayings of thy mouth? ### Notes on Job 8:2 - ## Job 8:3 - [KJV] Doth God pervert judgment? or doth the Almighty pervert justice? - [ASV] Doth God pervert justice? Or doth the Almighty pervert righteousness? - [YLT] Doth God pervert judgment? And doth the Mighty One pervert justice? ### Notes on Job 8:3 - ## Job 8:4 - [KJV] If thy children have sinned against him, and he have cast them away for their transgression; - [ASV] If thy children have sinned against him, And he hath delivered them into the hand of their transgression; - [YLT] If thy sons have sinned before Him, And He doth send them away, By the hand of their transgression, ### Notes on Job 8:4 - ## Job 8:5 - [KJV] If thou wouldest seek unto God betimes, and make thy supplication to the Almighty; - [ASV] If thou wouldest seek diligently unto God, And make thy supplication to the Almighty; - [YLT] If thou dost seek early unto God, And unto the Mighty makest supplication, ### Notes on Job 8:5 - ## Job 8:6 - [KJV] If thou *wert* pure and upright; surely now he would awake for thee, and make the habitation of thy righteousness prosperous. - [ASV] If thou wert pure and upright: Surely now he would awake for thee, And make the habitation of thy righteousness prosperous. - [YLT] If pure and upright thou *art*, Surely now He waketh for thee, And hath completed The habitation of thy righteousness. ### Notes on Job 8:6 - ## Job 8:7 - [KJV] Though thy beginning was small, yet thy latter end should greatly increase. - [ASV] And though thy beginning was small, Yet thy latter end would greatly increase. - [YLT] And thy beginning hath been small, And thy latter end is very great. ### Notes on Job 8:7 - ## Job 8:8 - [KJV] For enquire, I pray thee, of the former age, and prepare thyself to the search of their fathers: - [ASV] For inquire, I pray thee, of the former age, And apply thyself to that which their fathers have searched out: - [YLT] For, ask I pray thee of a former generation, And prepare to a search of their fathers, ### Notes on Job 8:8 - ## Job 8:9 - [KJV] (For we *are but of* yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth *are* a shadow:) - [ASV] (For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, Because our days upon earth are a shadow); - [YLT] (For of yesterday we *are*, and we know not, For a shadow *are* our days on earth.) ### Notes on Job 8:9 - ## Job 8:10 - [KJV] Shall not they teach thee, *and* tell thee, and utter words out of their heart? - [ASV] Shall not they teach thee, and tell thee, And utter words out of their heart? - [YLT] Do they not shew thee -- speak to thee, And from their heart bring forth words? ### Notes on Job 8:10 - ## Job 8:11 - [KJV] Can the rush grow up without mire? can the flag grow without water? - [ASV] Can the rush grow up without mire? Can the flag grow without water? - [YLT] 'Doth a rush wise without mire? A reed increase without water? ### Notes on Job 8:11 - ## Job 8:12 - [KJV] Whilst it *is* yet in his greenness, *and* not cut down, it withereth before any *other* herb. - [ASV] Whilst it is yet in its greenness, *and* not cut down, It withereth before any *other* herb. - [YLT] While it *is* in its budding -- uncropped, Even before any herb it withereth. ### Notes on Job 8:12 - ## Job 8:13 - [KJV] So *are* the paths of all that forget God; and the hypocrite's hope shall perish: - [ASV] So are the paths of all that forget God; And the hope of the godless man shall perish: - [YLT] So *are* the paths of all forgetting God, And the hope of the profane doth perish, ### Notes on Job 8:13 - ## Job 8:14 - [KJV] Whose hope shall be cut off, and whose trust *shall be* a spider's web. - [ASV] Whose confidence shall break in sunder, And whose trust is a spider's web. - [YLT] Whose confidence is loathsome, And the house of a spider his trust. ### Notes on Job 8:14 - ## Job 8:15 - [KJV] He shall lean upon his house, but it shall not stand: he shall hold it fast, but it shall not endure. - [ASV] He shall lean upon his house, but it shall not stand: He shall hold fast thereby, but it shall not endure. - [YLT] He leaneth on his house -- and it standeth not: He taketh hold on it -- and it abideth not. ### Notes on Job 8:15 - ## Job 8:16 - [KJV] He *is* green before the sun, and his branch shooteth forth in his garden. - [ASV] He is green before the sun, And his shoots go forth over his garden. - [YLT] Green he *is* before the sun, And over his garden his branch goeth out. ### Notes on Job 8:16 - ## Job 8:17 - [KJV] His roots are wrapped about the heap, *and* seeth the place of stones. - [ASV] His roots are wrapped about the *stone*-heap, He beholdeth the place of stones. - [YLT] By a heap his roots are wrapped, A house of stones he looketh for. ### Notes on Job 8:17 - ## Job 8:18 - [KJV] If he destroy him from his place, then *it* shall deny him, *saying*, I have not seen thee. - [ASV] If he be destroyed from his place, Then it shall deny him, *saying*, I have not seen thee. - [YLT] If *one* doth destroy him from his place, Then it hath feigned concerning him, I have not seen thee! ### Notes on Job 8:18 - ## Job 8:19 - [KJV] Behold, this *is* the joy of his way, and out of the earth shall others grow. - [ASV] Behold, this is the joy of his way; And out of the earth shall others spring. - [YLT] Lo, this *is* the joy of his way, And from the dust others spring up.' ### Notes on Job 8:19 - ## Job 8:20 - [KJV] Behold, God will not cast away a perfect *man*, neither will he help the evil doers: - [ASV] Behold, God will not cast away a perfect man, Neither will he uphold the evil-doers. - [YLT] Lo, God doth not reject the perfect, Nor taketh hold on the hand of evil doers. ### Notes on Job 8:20 - ## Job 8:21 - [KJV] Till he fill thy mouth with laughing, and thy lips with rejoicing. - [ASV] He will yet fill thy mouth with laughter, And thy lips with shouting. - [YLT] While he filleth with laughter thy mouth, And thy lips with shouting, ### Notes on Job 8:21 - ## Job 8:22 - [KJV] They that hate thee shall be clothed with shame; and the dwelling place of the wicked shall come to nought. - [ASV] They that hate thee shall be clothed with shame; And the tent of the wicked shall be no more. - [YLT] Those hating thee do put on shame, And the tent of the wicked is not! ### Notes on Job 8:22 -