Job 8:4
If thy sons have sinned before Him, And He doth send them away, By the hand of their transgression,
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
If thy children have sinned against him, and he have cast them away for their transgression;
In Context
3Doth God pervert judgment? And doth the Mighty One pervert justice?
5If thou dost seek early unto God, And unto the Mighty makest supplication,
Cross References
Genesis 19:13for we are destroying this place, for their cry hath been great [before] the face of Jehovah, and Jehovah doth send us to destroy it.'
Job 1:18While this [one] is speaking another also hath come and saith, 'Thy sons and thy daughters are eating, and drinking wine, in the house of their brother, the first-born.
Job 18:16From beneath his roots are dried up, And from above cut off is his crop.
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 →