Job 8:3

Does God pervert judgment? And does the Mighty One pervert justice?

Literal Standard Version

In The King James Version

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

In Context

2“Until when do you speak these things? And a strong wind—sayings of your mouth?

4If your sons have sinned before Him, || And He sends them away, || By the hand of their transgression,

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 32:4The Rock—His work [is] perfect, || For all His ways [are] just; God of steadfastness, and without iniquity; Righteous and upright [is] He.

Job 4:17Is mortal man more righteous than God? Is a man cleaner than his Maker?

Job 10:3Is it good for You that You oppress? That You despise the labor of Your hands, || And shine on the counsel of the wicked?

Job 19:7Behold, I cry out—violence, and am not answered, I cry aloud, and there is no judgment.

Job 21:20His own eyes see his destruction, || And he drinks of the wrath of the Mighty.

Job 34:10Therefore, O men of heart, listen to me; Far be it from God to do wickedness, || And [from] the Mighty to do perverseness,

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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