Job 8:3
Should, GOD, pervert justice? Or, the Almighty, pervert righteousness?
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
Doth God pervert judgment? or doth the Almighty pervert justice?
In Context
2How long wilt thou speak these things? Or, as a mighty wind, shall be the sayings of thy mouth?
Cross References
Deuteronomy 32:4A Rock! faultless his work, For, all his ways, are just, A GOD of faithfulness and without perversity, Right and fair, is he!
Job 4:17Shall, mortal man, be more just than GOD? Or a man be more pure than, his Maker?
Job 10:3Is it seemly in thee, that thou shouldst oppress? that thou shouldst despise the labour of thine own hand, when, upon the counsel of the lawless, thou hast shone?
Job 19:7Lo! I cry—out: Violence! but receive no answer, I cry aloud, but there is no vindication;
Job 21:20His own eyes, shall see his misfortune, and, the wrath of the Almighty, shall he drink.
Job 34:10Wherefore, ye men of mind, hearken unto me,—Far be it, that, GOD, should be lawless, or, the Almighty, be perverse!
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 →