Job 8:4
If your children have done evil against him, then their punishment is from his hand.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
If thy children have sinned against him, and he have cast them away for their transgression;
In Context
3Does God give wrong decisions? or is the Ruler of all not upright in his judging?
5If you will make search for God with care, and put your request before the Ruler of all;
Cross References
Genesis 19:13For we are about to send destruction on this place, because a great outcry against them has come to the ears of the Lord; and the Lord has sent us to put an end to the town.
Job 1:18And this one was still talking when another came, and said, Your sons and your daughters were feasting together in their oldest brother's house,
Job 18:16Under the earth his roots are dry, and over it his branch is cut off.
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 →