Job 8:4
When your children sinned against Him, He gave them over to their rebellion.
Majority Standard Bible
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 would earnestly seek God and ask the Almighty for mercy,
Cross References
Genesis 19:13because we are about to destroy this place. For the outcry to the LORD against its people is so great that He has sent us to destroy it.”
Job 1:18While he was still speaking, another messenger came and reported: “Your sons and daughters were eating and drinking wine in their oldest brother’s house,
Job 18:16The roots beneath him dry up, and the branches above him wither 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 →