Job 8:4
Your children must have sinned against him, and so they deserved the punishment he inflicted on them.
Free Bible 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 pervert justice? Does the Almighty pervert what is right?
5But if you pray to God and ask for his help,
Cross References
Genesis 19:13because we are about to destroy this place. The complaints that have reached the Lord about its people have become so bad that he has sent us to destroy it.”
Job 1:18While he was still speaking another messenger arrived and said, “Your sons and daughters were eating and drinking wine in the house of their eldest brother
Job 18:16They wither away, roots below and branches 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 →