Job 8:3
Doth God pervert judgment, or doth the Almighty overthrow that which is just?
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
Doth God pervert judgment? or doth the Almighty pervert justice?
In Context
4Although thy children have sinned against him, and he hath left them in the hand of their iniquity:
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 right.
Job 4:17Shall man be justified in comparison of God, or shall a man be more pure than his maker?
Job 10:3Doth it seem good to thee that thou shouldst calumniate me, and oppress me, the work of thy own hands, and help the counsel of the wicked?
Job 19:7Behold I cry suffering violence, and no one will hear: I shall cry aloud, and there is none to judge.
Job 21:20His eyes shall see his own destruction, and he shall drink of the wrath of the Almighty.
Job 34:10Therefore, ye men of understanding, hear me : far from god be wickedness, and iniquity 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 →