{"meta":{"source":"Prime Bible","sourceUrl":"https://primebible.com","license":"Public domain (translation text); see citation policy at /citation-policy","organization":"501(c)(3) nonprofit — EIN 41-2531951","canonicalUrl":"https://primebible.com/drb/job/8","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-05-30T17:09:57.344Z"},"reference":{"translation":"DRB","book":"Job","bookSlug":"job","chapter":8,"testament":"OLD"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":7,"nextChapter":9,"totalChapters":42,"totalVerses":22},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"The Baldad the Suhite answered, and said: "},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"How long wilt thou speak these things, and how long shall the words of thy mouth be like a strong wind? "},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"Doth God pervert judgment, or doth the Almighty overthrow that which is just? "},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"Although thy children have sinned against him, and he hath left them in the hand of their iniquity: "},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"Yet if thou wilt arise early to God, and wilt beseech the Almighty: "},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"If thou wilt walk clean and upright, he will presently awake onto thee, and will make the dwelling of thy justice peaceable: "},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"Insomuch, that if thy former things were small, thy latter things would be multiplied exceedingly. "},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"For inquire of the former generation, and search diligently into the memory of the fathers: "},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"(For we are but of yesterday, and are ignorant that our days upon earth are but a shadow:) "},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"And they shall teach thee: they shall speak to thee, and utter words out of their hearts. "},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"Can the rush be green without moisture? or a sedge-bush grow without water? "},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"When it is yet in flower, and is not plucked up with the hand, it withereth before all herbs. "},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"Even so are the ways of all that forget God, and the hope of the hypocrite shall perish: "},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"His folly shall not please him, and his trust shall be like the spider's web. "},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"He shall lean upon his house, and it shall not stand: he shall prop it up, and it shall not rise: "},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"He seemeth to have moisture before the sun cometh, and at his rising his blossom shall shoot forth. "},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"His roots shall be thick upon a heap of stones, and among the stones he shall abide. "},{"verseNumber":18,"text":"If one swallow him up out of his place, he shall deny him, and shall say: I know thee not. "},{"verseNumber":19,"text":"For this is the joy of his way, that others may spring again out of the earth. "},{"verseNumber":20,"text":"God will not cast away the simple, nor reach out his hand to the evildoer: "},{"verseNumber":21,"text":"Until thy mouth be filled with laughter, and thy lips with rejoicing. "},{"verseNumber":22,"text":"They that hate thee, shall be clothed with confusion: and the dwelling of the wicked shall not stand. "}],"citation":{"inline":"Job 8 (DRB)","markdown":"[Job 8](https://primebible.com/drb/job/8)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* DRB. https://primebible.com/drb/job/8 (accessed 2026-05-30)."}}