Job 8:3
Does God pervert justice? Does the Almighty pervert what is right?
Majority Standard Bible
In The King James Version
Doth God pervert judgment? or doth the Almighty pervert justice?
In Context
2“How long will you go on saying such things? The words of your mouth are a blustering wind.
4When your children sinned against Him, He gave them over to their rebellion.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 32:4He is the Rock, His work is perfect; all His ways are just. A God of faithfulness without injustice, righteous and upright is He.
Job 4:17‘Can a mortal be more righteous than God, or a man more pure than his Maker?
Job 10:3Does it please You to oppress me, to reject the work of Your hands and favor the schemes of the wicked?
Job 19:7Though I cry out, ‘Violence!’ I get no response; though I call for help, there is no justice.
Job 21:20Let his eyes see his own destruction; let him drink for himself the wrath of the Almighty.
Job 34:10Therefore listen to me, O men of understanding. Far be it from God to do wrong, and from the Almighty to act unjustly.
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 →