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Job 8 Smith's Literal Translation
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and the great spirit of the words of thy mouth?<p> <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/8-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Will God pervert judgment? and if the Almighty will pervert justice?<p> <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/8-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>If thy sons sinned to him, and he will send them away by the hand of their transgression;<p> <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/8-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>If thou shalt seek to God, if thou shalt make supplication to him;<p> <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/8-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>If thou wert pure and upright, for now he will awake for thee and requite the habitation of thy justice.<p> <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/8-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>And thy beginning was small, and thy latter state shall increase greatly.<p> <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/8-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>For ask now to the first generation, and prepare to seek their fathers:<p> <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/8-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>(For yesterday are we and we shall not know, for our days upon earth are a shadow:)<p> <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/8-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Shall they not teach thee, and say to thee, and bring forth words from their heart?<p> <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/8-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Shall the bulrush lift itself up without a marsh? shall the marsh grass grow without water?<p> <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/8-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>While yet in its greenness it shall not break off, and it will dry up before grass.<p> <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/8-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>So the paths of all forgetting God and the hope of the profane one shall perish.<p> <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/8-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Which his hope shall be cut off, and the spider's house his trust.<p> <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/8-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>He shall lean upon his house and it shall not stand: he shall hold fast upon it, and it shall not rise up.<p> <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/8-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>It was moist before the sun, and its sprout will come forth upon his garden.<p> <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/8-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>His roots were entwined upon a heap, he shall see a house of stones.<p> <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/8-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>If he should swallow him down from his place, and it lied upon it: I saw thee not.<p> <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/8-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>Behold, this the rejoicing of his way, and from the dust shall they cause another to grow.<p> <A name="21"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/8-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Behold, God will not reject the blameless one, and he will not take hold upon the hand of those doing evil:<p> <A name="22"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/8-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Till he shall fill thy mouth with laughing, and thy lips with shouts of joy.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/job/8-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>They hating thee shall put on shame; and the tent of the unjust shall not be.<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Holy Bible Containing the Old and New Testaments; Translated Literally From The Original Tongues by Julia E. 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