Job 8:4
If your children have sinned against him, and he have cast them away for their transgression;
Updated King James Version
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 judgment? or does the Almighty pervert justice?
5If you would seek unto God early, and make your supplication to the Almighty;
Cross References
Genesis 19:13For we will destroy this place, because the cry of them is becoming great before the face of the LORD; and the LORD has sent us to destroy it.
Job 1:18While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said, Your sons and your daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother's house:
Job 18:16His roots shall be dried up beneath, and above shall his branch be cut off.
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 →