Job 8:4
If your children have sinned against him, he has delivered them into the hand of their disobedience.
World Messianic 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? Or does the Almighty pervert righteousness?
5If you want to seek God diligently, make your supplication to the Almighty.
Cross References
Genesis 19:13for we will destroy this place, because the outcry against them has grown so great before the LORD that the LORD has sent us to destroy it.”
Job 1:18While he was still speaking, there came also another, and said, “Your sons and your daughters were eating and drinking wine in their oldest brother’s house,
Job 18:16His roots will be dried up beneath. His branch will be cut off above.
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 →