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# Job 8

Job 8 is chapter 8 of 42 in the Book of Job. Here are all 22 verses in the Catholic Public Domain Version, with the Latin of the Clementine Vulgate beside them.

> Baldad, under pretence of defending the justice of God, accuses Job, and exhorts him to return to God.
>
> — Bp. Richard Challoner, chapter summary

## Job 8 (Catholic Public Domain Version)

1. But Baldad the Suhite, responding, said:
2. How long will you speak this way, so that the words of your mouth are like a changeable wind?
3. Does God supplant judgment, or does the Almighty subvert that which is just?
4. And if now your children have sinned against him, and he has dismissed them into the power of their iniquity,
5. even so, you should arise early to God, so as to beseech the Almighty.
6. If you approach with purity and honesty, he will quickly be attentive to you, and a peaceful life will repay your righteousness,
7. so much so that, if your former things were small, your latter things would be multiplied greatly.
8. For inquire of the earliest generation, and investigate diligently the history of the fathers,
9. (of course, we are but of yesterday and are ignorant that our days on earth are like a shadow,)
10. and they will teach you; they will speak with you and will offer you the eloquence of their hearts.
11. Can the marsh plant live without moisture? Or can sedges grow without water?
12. When it is still in flower, and has not been pulled up by hand, it withers before all other plants.
13. Just so are the ways of all who forget God, and the hope of the hypocrite will perish.
14. His frenzy will not please him, and his faith will be like a spider’s web.
15. He will lean on his house, and it will not stand; he will prop it up, but it will not rise.
16. He seems to have moisture before the sun arrives; and at sunrise, his sprout shoots forth.
17. His roots will crowd together over a heap of stones, and among the stones he will remain.
18. If someone is devoured right beside him, he will deny him and will say: “I do not know you.”
19. For this is the benefit of his way, that others in turn may spring up from the earth.
20. God will not discard the simple, nor will he extend his hand to the spiteful,
21. even until your mouth is filled with laughter and your lips with rejoicing.
22. Those who hate you, will be clothed with confusion, and the tabernacle of the impious will not continue.

## Job 8 in Latin (Clementine Vulgate, 1592)

1. Respondens autem Baldad Suhites, dixit:
2. Usquequo loqueris talia, et spiritus multiplex sermones oris tui?
3. Numquid Deus supplantat judicium? aut Omnipotens subvertit quod justum est?
4. Etiam si filii tui peccaverunt ei, et dimisit eos in manu iniquitatis suæ:
5. tu tamen si diluculo consurrexeris ad Deum, et Omnipotentem fueris deprecatus;
6. si mundus et rectus incesseris: statim evigilabit ad te, et pacatum reddet habitaculum justitiæ tuæ,
7. in tantum ut si priora tua fuerint parva, et novissima tua multiplicentur nimis.
8. Interroga enim generationem pristinam, et diligenter investiga patrum memoriam
9. (hesterni quippe sumus, et ignoramus, quoniam sicut umbra dies nostri sunt super terram),
10. et ipsi docebunt te, loquentur tibi, et de corde suo proferent eloquia.
11. Numquid vivere potest scirpus absque humore? aut crescere carectum sine aqua?
12. Cum adhuc sit in flore, nec carpatur manu, ante omnes herbas arescit.
13. Sic viæ omnium qui obliviscuntur Deum, et spes hypocritæ peribit.
14. Non ei placebit vecordia sua, et sicut tela aranearum fiducia ejus.
15. Innitetur super domum suam, et non stabit; fulciet eam, et non consurget.
16. Humectus videtur antequam veniat sol, et in ortu suo germen ejus egredietur.
17. Super acervum petrarum radices ejus densabuntur, et inter lapides commorabitur.
18. Si absorbuerit eum de loco suo, negabit eum, et dicet: Non novi te.
19. Hæc est enim lætitia viæ ejus, ut rursum de terra alii germinentur.
20. Deus non projiciet simplicem, nec porriget manum malignis,
21. donec impleatur risu os tuum, et labia tua jubilo.
22. Qui oderunt te induentur confusione, et tabernaculum impiorum non subsistet.

Source: Catholic Public Domain Version (Ronald L. Conte Jr., 2009), public domain; Latin: Clementine Vulgate (1592).