---
title: Joseph Smith Translation (1867 edition)
description: Job from the Joseph Smith Translation (JST), 1867 edition.
authors:
  - Smith, Joseph, Jr.
collections:
  - joseph-smith
tags:
  - translation
published: "1867"
publisher: RLDS Publication Board
publisher_place: Plano, Illinois
publisher_note: "The title page reads: Published by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints; Joseph Smith, I. L. Rogers, E. Robinson, Publishing Committee; 1867."
edition: First edition (Plano, 1867)
language: en
type: book
chapter: 8
verse_count: 22
reference: "Joseph Smith Jr., *Joseph Smith Translation*, first edition (Plano, IL: RLDS Publication Board, 1867), Job, chap. 8, https://archive.org/details/holyscripturestr00smituoft."
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/holyscripturestr00smituoft
  identifier: holyscripturestr00smituoft
  scan: University of Toronto / Trinity College Library copy, Internet Archive
  transcription: "OCR text of the 1867 scans (Toronto copy and a second copy, holyscriptures00smit), reconciled word by word; Romans was also checked against the page images. Method, per-chapter validation log and known limits: docs/jst-1867-import.md."
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: 1867 US publication
  source: https://archive.org/details/holyscripturestr00smituoft
  publication_year: 1867
---

# Job 8

*Bildad showeth God's justice.*

**1** THEN answered Bildad the ShuJL hite, and said,
**2** How long wilt thou speak these things? and how long shall the words of thy mouth be like a strong wind?
**3** Doth God pervert judgment? or doth the Almighty pervert justice?
**4** If thy children have sinned against him, and he have cast them away for their transgression;
**5** If thou wouldest seek unto God betimes, and make thy supplication to the Almighty;
**6** If thou wert pure and upright; surely now he would awake for thee, and make the habitation of thy righteousness prosperous.
**7** Though thy beginning was small, yet thy latter end should greatly increase.
**8** For inquire, I pray thee, of the former age, and prepare thyself to the search of their fathers;
**9** (For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth are a shadow;)
**10** Shall not they teach thee, and tell thee, and utter words out of their heart?
**11** Can the rush grow up without mire? can the flag grow without water?
**12** Whilst it is yet in his greenness, and not cut down, it withereth before any other herb.
**13** So are the paths of all that forget God; and the hypocrite's hope shall perish;
**14** Whose hope shall be cut off, and whose trust shall be a spider's web.
**15** He shall lean upon his house, but it shall not stand; he shall hold it fast, but it shall not endure.
**16** He is green before the sun, and his branch shooteth forth in his garden.
**17** His roots are wrapped about the heap, and seeth the place of stones.
**18** If he destroy him from his place, then it shall deny him, saying, I have not seen thee.
**19** Behold, this is the joy of his way, and out of the earth shall others grow.
**20** Behold, God will not cast away a perfect man, neither will he help the evil-doers;
**21** Till he fill thy mouth with laughing, and thy lips with rejoicing.
**22** They that hate thee shall be clothed with shame; and the dwelling-place of the wicked shall come to naught.