Job 8:3
Does God pervert justice? Or does the Almighty pervert righteousness?
World English Bible
In The King James Version
Doth God pervert judgment? or doth the Almighty pervert justice?
In Context
2“How long will you speak these things? Shall the words of your mouth be a mighty wind?
4If your children have sinned against him, he has delivered them into the hand of their disobedience.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 32:4The Rock: his work is perfect, for all his ways are just. A God of faithfulness who does no wrong, just and right is he.
Job 4:17‘Shall mortal man be more just than God? Shall a man be more pure than his Maker?
Job 10:3Is it good to you that you should oppress, that you should despise the work of your hands, and smile on the counsel of the wicked?
Job 19:7“Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard. I cry for help, but there is no justice.
Job 21:20Let his own eyes see his destruction. Let him drink of the wrath of the Almighty.
Job 34:10“Therefore listen to me, you men of understanding: far be it from God, that he should do wickedness, from the Almighty, that he should commit iniquity.
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 →