Job 8:4
If thy children have sinned against him, then did he send them off through the means of their transgression.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
If thy children have sinned against him, and he have cast them away for their transgression;
In Context
3Should God pervert justice? or should the Almighty pervert righteousness?
5If thou wilt earnestly seek for God, and make thy supplication to the Almighty;
Cross References
Genesis 19:13For we will destroy this place, because the cry against them is waxed great before the face of the Lord; and the Lord hath sent us to destroy it.
Job 1:18While this one was yet speaking, there came also another, and said, Thy sons and thy daughters were eating and drinking wine in the house of their first-born brother:
Job 18:16Beneath, his roots will be dried up, and above will his boughs he cut away.
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 →