Job 8:3
Does God give wrong decisions? or is the Ruler of all not upright in his judging?
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
Doth God pervert judgment? or doth the Almighty pervert justice?
In Context
2How long will you say these things, and how long will the words of your mouth be like a strong wind?
4If your children have done evil against him, then their punishment is from his hand.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 32:4He is the Rock, complete is his work; for all his ways are righteousness: a God without evil who keeps faith, true and upright is he.
Job 4:17May a man be upright before God? or a man be clean before his Maker?
Job 10:3What profit is it to you to be cruel, to give up the work of your hands, looking kindly on the design of evil-doers?
Job 19:7Truly, I make an outcry against the violent man, but there is no answer: I give a cry for help, but no one takes up my cause.
Job 21:20Let his eyes see his trouble, and let him be full of the wrath of the Ruler of all!
Job 34:10Now then, you wise, take note; you men of knowledge, give ear to me. Let it be far from God to do evil, and from the Ruler of all to do wrong.
Matthew Henry on Job 8:2-8
The Address of Bildad. ( b. c. 1520.) 1 Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, 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… Read the whole commentary →