8: 2 How long wilt thou speak these things? And how long shall the words of thy mouth be like a mighty wind?
8: 3 Doth God pervert justice? Or doth the Almighty pervert righteousness?
8: 4 73If thy children have sinned against him, And he hath delivered them into the hand of their transgression;
73Or, If thy children sinned … he delivered them etc.
8: 5 If thou wouldest seek diligently unto God, And make thy supplication to the Almighty;
8: 6 If thou wert pure and upright: Surely now he would awake for thee, And make the habitation of thy righteousness prosperous.
8: 7 And though thy beginning was small, Yet thy latter end would greatly increase.
8: 8 For inquire, I pray thee, of the former age, And apply thyself to that which their fathers have searched out:
8: 9 (For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, Because our days upon earth are a shadow:)
8: 10 Shall not they teach thee, and tell thee, And utter words out of their heart?
8: 11 Can the 74rush grow up without mire? Can the 75flag grow without water?
74Or, papyrus
75Or, reed-grass
8: 12 Whilst it is yet in its greenness, and not cut down, It withereth before any other herb.
8: 13 So are the paths of all that forget God; And the hope of the godless man shall perish:
8: 14 Whose confidence 76shall break in sunder, And whose trust is a spider’s 77web.
76Or, shall be cut off,
77Hb. house.
8: 15 He shall lean upon his house, but it shall not stand: He shall hold fast thereby, but it shall not endure.
8: 16 He is green before the sun, And his shoots go forth over his garden.
8: 17 His roots are wrapped 78about the stone-heap, He beholdeth the place of stones.
78Or, beside the spring,
8: 18 If he be destroyed from his place, Then it shall deny him, saying, I have not seen thee.
8: 19 Behold, this is the joy of his way; And out of the 79earth shall others spring.
79Or, dust
8: 20 Behold, God will not cast away a perfect man, Neither will he uphold the evil-doers.
8: 21 80He will yet fill thy mouth with laughter, And thy lips with shouting.
80Or, Till he fill thy mouth with laughter,
8: 22 They that hate thee shall be clothed with shame; And the tent of the wicked shall be no more.
