21AND WHY? NOT WILL YOU FORGIVE TRANSGRESSION MY SO MAY YOU TAKE AWAY? <OBJ.> INIQUITY MY FOR NOW TO THE DUST I WILL LIE DOWN AND YOU WILL LOOK FOR ME AND THERE NOT [WILL BE] ME 21Why do You not pardon my transgression and take away my iniquity? For soon I will lie down in the dust; You will seek me, but I will be no more.”
1AND HE ANSWERED BILDAD THE SHUHITE AND HE SAID Bildad: Job Should Repent 1Then Bildad the Shuhite replied:
2UNTIL WHEN? WILL YOU SAY THESE [THINGS] AND [WILL BE] A WIND MIGHTY [THE] WORDS OF MOUTH YOUR 2“How long will you go on saying such things? The words of your mouth are a blustering wind.
3¿ GOD DOES HE PERVERT JUSTICE AND OR? [THE] ALMIGHTY DOES HE PERVERT RIGHTEOUSNESS 3Does God pervert justice? Does the Almighty pervert what is right?
4IF CHILDREN YOUR THEY SINNED TO HIM AND HE SENT THEM IN [THE] HAND OF TRANSGRESSION THEIR 4When your children sinned against Him, He gave them over to their rebellion.
5IF YOU YOU WILL SEEK <TO> GOD AND TO [THE] ALMIGHTY YOU WILL SEEK FAVOR 5But if you would earnestly seek God and ask the Almighty for mercy,
6IF [ARE] PURE AND UPRIGHT YOU FOR NOW HE WILL AWAKE ON YOU AND HE WILL RESTORE [THE] ABODE OF RIGHTEOUSNESS YOUR 6if you are pure and upright, even now He will rouse Himself on your behalf and restore your righteous estate.
7AND IT WILL BE BEGINNING YOUR A SMALL THING AND FUTURE YOUR IT WILL GROW EXCEEDINGLY 7Though your beginnings were modest, your latter days will flourish.
8FOR ASK PLEASE OF A GENERATION FORMER AND GIVE ATTENTION TO [THE] SEARCHING OF ANCESTORS THEIR 8Please inquire of past generations and consider the discoveries of their fathers.
9FOR [ARE] YESTERDAY WE AND NOT WE KNOW THAT [ARE] A SHADOW DAYS OUR ON EARTH 9For we were born yesterday and know nothing; our days on earth are but a shadow.
10¿ NOT THEY WILL THEY INSTRUCT YOU WILL THEY SAY? TO YOU AND FROM HEART THEIR WILL THEY BRING FORTH? WORDS 10Will they not teach you and tell you, and speak from their understanding?
11¿ WILL IT GROW TALL PAPYRUS WITH NOT MARSH WILL IT GROW? REED[S] NOT WATER 11Does papyrus grow where there is no marsh? Do reeds flourish without water?
12STILL IT [IS] IN GREENNESS ITS NOT IT IS PLUCKED OFF AND <TO> BEFORE ANY HERBAGE IT IS DRIED UP 12While the shoots are still uncut, they dry up more quickly than grass.
13[ARE] THUS [THE] PATHS OF ALL [THOSE WHO] FORGET <OF> GOD AND [THE] HOPE OF [THE] GODLESS IT WILL BE LOST 13Such is the destiny of all who forget God; so the hope of the godless will perish.
14[THE ONE] WHO IT SNAPS CONFIDENCE HIS AND [IS THE] HOUSE OF A SPIDER TRUST HIS 14His confidence is fragile; his security is in a spider’s web.
15HE SUPPORTS HIMSELF ON HOUSE HIS AND NOT IT STANDS HE TAKES HOLD ON IT AND NOT IT ENDURES 15He leans on his web, but it gives way; he holds fast but it does not endure.
16[IS] A FRESH [PLANT] HE <TO> BEFORE [THE] SUN AND OVER GARDEN ITS YOUNG SHOOT[S] ITS IT GOES OUT 16He is a well-watered plant in the sunshine, spreading its shoots over the garden.
17OVER A HEAP ROOTS ITS THEY ARE INTERWOVEN BETWEEN STONES IT SEES 17His roots wrap around the rock heap; he looks for a home among the stones.
18IF SOMEONE WILL SWALLOW IT FROM PLACE ITS AND IT WILL DENY <IN> IT NOT I HAVE SEEN YOU 18If he is uprooted from his place, it will disown him, saying, I never saw you.’
19THERE! THAT [IS] [THE] JOY OF WAY ITS AND FROM [THE] DUST ANOTHER THEY WILL SPRING UP 19Surely this is the joy of his way; yet others will spring from the dust.
20THERE! GOD NOT HE REJECTS A BLAMELESS [PERSON] AND NOT HE TAKES HOLD ON [THE] HAND OF EVIL-DOERS 20Behold, God does not reject the blameless, nor will He strengthen the hand of evildoers.
21UNTIL HE WILL FILL LAUGHTER MOUTH YOUR AND LIPS YOUR A SHOUT OF JOY 21He will yet fill your mouth with laughter, and your lips with a shout of joy.
22[THOSE WHO] HATE YOU THEY WILL BE CLOTHED SHAME AND [THE] TENT OF WICKED [PEOPLE] THERE NOT [WILL BE] IT 22Your enemies will be clothed in shame, and the tent of the wicked will be no more.”