Job 8:4
If your sons have sinned before Him, || And He sends them away, || By the hand of their transgression,
Literal Standard 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 judgment? And does the Mighty One pervert justice?
5If you seek for God early, || And make supplication to the Mighty,
Cross References
Genesis 19:13for we are destroying this place, for their cry has been great [before] the face of YHWH, and YHWH does send us to destroy it.”
Job 1:18While this [one] is speaking another has also come and says, “Your sons and your daughters are eating, and drinking wine, in the house of their brother, the firstborn.
Job 18:16From beneath his roots are dried up, || And from above his crop is cut off.
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 →