Job 8:3

Does God supplant judgment, or does the Almighty subvert that which is just?

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Doth God pervert judgment? or doth the Almighty pervert justice?

In Context

2How long will you speak this way, so that the words of your mouth are like a changeable wind?

4And if now your children have sinned against him, and he has dismissed them into the power of their iniquity,

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 32:4The works of God are perfect, and all his ways are judgments. God is faithful and without any iniquity. He is just and upright.

Job 4:17Should man be justified in relation to God, or will a man be more pure than his Maker?

Job 10:3Does it seem good to you, if you find fault with me and oppress me, the work of your own hands, and assist the counsel of the impious?

Job 19:7Behold, I will cry out, enduring violence, and no one will hear. I will announce loudly, but there is no one who may judge.

Job 21:20His eyes will see his own destruction, and he will drink from the wrath of the Almighty.

Job 34:10Therefore, prudent men, hear me: impiety is far from God, and iniquity is far from the Almighty.

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 →

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