Job 8 — Hebrew and Greek compared
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Chapter 8
Bildad appeals to justice and ancestral wisdom
Source chapters: [BHS8] Hebrew; [LXX8] Greek.
Verse 8:1 Same
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
8:1 Bildad the Shuhite answered and said:
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
8:1 Then Bildad the Shuhite replied:
Classification & Notes
Same. Text: Both identify Bildad as the next speaker.
Verse 8:2 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
8:2 “How long will you speak these things,
the words of your mouth a mighty wind?
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
8:2 “How long will you speak these things?
The breath of your mouth is full of words.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek wordiness differs from the Hebrew mighty-wind comparison.
Verse 8:3 Similar
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
8:3 Does God pervert judgment?
Does Shaddai pervert righteousness?
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
8:3 Will the Lord do wrong in judging,
or will the Maker of all disturb what is right?
Classification & Notes
Similar. Text: Greek uses the Creator title where Hebrew has Shaddai. Both are Bildad’s rhetorical defense of divine justice.
Verse 8:4 Same
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
8:4 If your children sinned against Him,
He handed them over to the power of their transgression.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
8:4 If your sons sinned before Him,
He sent them into the power of their lawlessness.
Classification & Notes
Same. Text: Both conditionally connect the children’s fate with their wrongdoing; this is Bildad’s inference, not a new narrator’s verdict.
Verse 8:5 Similar
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
8:5 If you earnestly seek God
and plead for favor with Shaddai,
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
8:5 But rise early to the Lord Almighty in supplication.
Classification & Notes
Similar. Text: Greek makes the appeal an imperative and uses Lord Almighty as one title; Hebrew begins a condition.
Verse 8:6 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
8:6 if you are pure and upright,
then surely He will rouse Himself for you
and restore your righteous dwelling.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
8:6 If you are pure and true, He will hear your supplication
and restore to you a righteous way of life.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek hearing prayer differs from Hebrew rousing, and diaita is provisionally way of life or livelihood where Hebrew names a dwelling.
Verse 8:7 Similar
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
8:7 Your beginning may be small,
but your latter state will grow greatly.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
8:7 Then your first things will be few,
but your last things beyond telling.
Classification & Notes
Similar. Text: The promise of a greater latter condition agrees.
Verse 8:8 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
8:8 For ask the former generation,
and apply yourself to what their fathers searched out.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
8:8 For inquire of the former generation;
search out the family of the fathers.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Hebrew emphasizes the ancestors’ investigation; Greek katagenos emphasizes their lineage or successive generations.
Verse 8:9 Same
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
8:9 For we are only of yesterday and know nothing;
our days on earth are a shadow.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
8:9 For we are of yesterday and do not know;
our life on earth is a shadow.
Classification & Notes
Same. Text: Both contrast human brevity with inherited understanding.
Verse 8:10 Same
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
8:10 Will they not teach you and tell you,
and bring forth words from their heart?
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
8:10 Will these not teach you and tell you,
and bring words out of the heart?
Classification & Notes
Same. Text: The appeal to ancestral speech agrees.
Verse 8:11 Similar
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
8:11 Can papyrus grow tall without a marsh?
Can reeds flourish without water?
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
8:11 Does papyrus flourish without water,
or will a rush grow tall without a drink?
Classification & Notes
Similar. Text: The dependent marsh-plant image agrees. Species-level botanical identification is not asserted.
Verse 8:12 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
8:12 While it is still fresh and uncut,
it withers before all other grass.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
8:12 While it is still on its root and unharvested,
does not every plant wither before it drinks?
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek before drinking differs from Hebrew before other grass. The Greek ouchi clause is read as a rhetorical question; the publisher displays a final period.
Verse 8:13 Similar
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
8:13 So are the paths of all who forget God;
the hope of the godless will perish.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
8:13 So, then, will be the latter end of all who forget the Lord;
for the hope of an ungodly person will perish.
Classification & Notes
Similar. Text: Hebrew paths and Greek latter end differ in emphasis, while the perishing hope agrees.
Verse 8:14 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
8:14 His confidence is cut off,
and his trust is a spider’s house.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
8:14 For his house will be uninhabited,
and his tent will turn into a spider’s web.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Hebrew compares trust to a spider’s house; Greek describes the fate of house and tent. Cut off is provisional for the rare Hebrew yaqot.
Verse 8:15 Similar
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
8:15 He leans on his house, but it does not stand;
he grasps it, but it does not hold up.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
8:15 If he props up his house, it will certainly not stand;
when he takes hold of it, it will certainly not endure.
Classification & Notes
Similar. Text: The collapsing support agrees, though Greek describes propping up rather than leaning on.
Verse 8:16 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
8:16 He is lush before the sun,
and his shoots spread over his garden.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
8:16 For he is moist beneath the sun,
and his shoot will come out of his decay.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek sapria is decay, distinct from Hebrew garden. Both maintain the person-as-plant image.
Verse 8:17 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
8:17 His roots interweave over a heap;
he looks upon a house of stones.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
8:17 He lies upon a heap of stones
and will live among pebbles.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek lying and living replace Hebrew roots intertwining and looking. The unusual Hebrew stone-house phrase is retained without silently emending it.
Verse 8:18 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
8:18 If he is swallowed up from his place,
it disowns him: ‘I never saw you.’
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
8:18 If it swallows him up, the place will disown him.
Have you not seen such things?
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek’s swallowing verb has an unexpressed subject and its final second-person clause differs from Hebrew the place saying I never saw you. The Greek is provisionally read as a rhetorical question; source punctuation is a period. Its exact syntax remains open.
Verse 8:19 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
8:19 Look, that is the joy of his way;
and others sprout from the dust.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
8:19 For such is the overthrow of an ungodly person,
and from the earth it will cause another to sprout.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Hebrew joy of his way, possibly ironic, differs from explicit Greek overthrow. Greek has a singular replacement and an unexpressed sprouting agent.
Verse 8:20 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
8:20 Look, God will not reject the blameless,
nor take evildoers by the hand.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
8:20 For the Lord will certainly not reject the innocent,
but He will accept no gift of an ungodly person.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek rejection of gifts differs from Hebrew refusal to support evildoers by the hand.
Verse 8:21 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
8:21 He will yet fill your mouth with laughter,
and your lips with a shout of joy.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
8:21 He will fill the mouth of true people with laughter,
and their lips with thanksgiving.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek refers to true people collectively and thanksgiving; Hebrew directly promises Job laughter and joyful shouting. Hebrew until is provisionally rendered yet in the continuing assurance.
Verse 8:22 Similar
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
8:22 Those who hate you will be clothed with shame,
and the tent of the wicked will be no more.”
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
8:22 Their enemies will be clothed with shame,
and an ungodly person’s dwelling will be no more.”
Classification & Notes
Similar. Text: Greek continues the plural group, while Hebrew addresses Job directly.