Job 8:4
And if now your children have sinned against him, and he has dismissed them into the power of their iniquity,
Catholic Public Domain Version
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 supplant judgment, or does the Almighty subvert that which is just?
5even so, you should arise early to God, so as to beseech the Almighty.
Cross References
Genesis 19:13For we will eliminate this place, because the outcry among them has increased before the Lord, who sent us to destroy them.”
Job 1:18He was still speaking, and behold, another entered, and he said, “Your sons and daughters were feasting and drinking wine in the house of their first-born brother,
Job 18:16Let his roots be dried up from beneath him, and his harvest be crushed from above.
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 →