Job 8:4
If thy banim have sinned against Him, 1 and He have cast them away for their peysha (transgression); 1
Orthodox Jewish Bible
In The King James Version
If thy children have sinned against him, and he have cast them away for their transgression;
In Context
3Doth El pervert mishpat (justice)? 1 Or doth Shaddai pervert tzedek? 1
5If thou wouldest seek El (G-d) earnestly, 1 and make thy techinnah (supplication) to Shaddai; 1
Cross References
Genesis 19:13For we are the mashchitim (ones destroying) this makom (place), because the cry of them is so gedolah before the face of Hashem; and Hashem hath sent us to destroy it.
Job 1:18While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said, Thy banim and thy banot were eating and drinking yayin in the bais achihem habechor;
Job 18:16His shorashim shall be dried up beneath, 1 and above his branch shall wither. 1
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 →