Job 8:4

Job 8:4 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)If thy children have sinned against him, and he have cast them away for their transgression;
• New International Version (NIV)When your children sinned against him, he gave them over to the penalty of their sin.
• English Standard Version (ESV)If your children have sinned against him, he has delivered them into the hand of their transgression.
• New King James Version (NKJV)If your sons have sinned against Him, He has cast them away for their transgression.

Context of Job 8:4

2“How long will you say these things? And will the words of your mouth be a mighty wind? 3Does God pervert justice? Or does the Almighty pervert righteousness? If your children have sinned against Him, Then He has handed them over to the power of their transgression and punished them. 5If you would [diligently] seek God And implore the compassion and favor of the Almighty, 6Then, if you are pure and upright, Surely now He will awaken for you And restore your righteous place.

Job 8:4 word by word

אִם־בָּנֶ֥יךָ חָֽטְאוּ־ל֑וֹ וַֽ֝יְשַׁלְּחֵ֗ם בְּיַד־פִּשְׁעָֽם׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• If thy childrenבֵּןbên · son: childH1121
• have sinnedחָטָאchâţâ' · to sinH2398
• against him, and he have cast them awayשָׁלַחshâlach · to send: let goH7971
• forיָדyâd · hand: powerH3027
• their transgressionפֶּ֫שַׁעpesha‛ · transgressionH6588

Cross-references for Job 8:4

• Job 1:5When the days of their feasting were over, Job would send [for them] and consecrate them, rising early in the morning and offering burnt offerings according to the number of them all; for Job said, “It may be that my sons have sinned and cursed God in their hearts.” Job did this at all [such] times.
• Job 5:4His children are far from safety [and included in their father’s ruin], They are oppressed and crushed in the [court of justice in the city’s] gate, And there is no one to rescue them.
• Job 18:16The roots [of the wicked] are dried up below, And above, his branch is cut off and withers.
• Genesis 13:13But the men of Sodom were extremely wicked and sinful against the Lord [unashamed in their open sin before Him].
• Genesis 19:13for we are destroying this place, because the outcry [for judgment] against them has grown so great before the Lord that the Lord has sent us to destroy and ruin it.”

Commentaries on Job 8:4

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 4If thy children have sinned - I know thy children have been cut off by a terrible judgment; but was it not because by transgression they had filled up the measure of their iniquity? And he have cast them away - Has sent them off, says the Targum, to the place of their transgression - to that punishment due to their sins.Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 4If thy children have sinned against him - Bildad here assumes that the children of Job had been wicked, and had been cut off in their sins. This must have cut him to the quick, for there was nothing which a bereaved father would feel more acutely than this. The meaning here is somewhat weakened by the word “if.” The Hebrew אם 'ı̂m is rather to be taken in the sense of “since” - assuming it as an indisputable point, or taking it for granted. It was not a…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 3-4Bildad believed God does not pervert justice. He thought the death of Job’s children showed they had sinned against God. Bildad divided people into "the blameless" (Hebrew tam, 8:20a; see 1:1) or "the godless" (Hebrew khanep, 8:13b). He believed one could distinguish them by observing God's actions toward them.Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 44. If--Rather, "Since thy children have sinned against Him, and (since) He has cast them away (Hebrew, by the hand of) for their transgressions, (yet) if thou wouldst seek unto God, &c., if thou wert pure, &c., surely [even] now He would awake for thee." Umbreit makes the apodosis to, "since thy children," &c., begin at "He has cast them away." Also, instead of "for," "He gave them up to (literally, into the hand of) their own guilt." Bildad expresses the…Read the comment

Topics related to Job 8:4

• Righteous

In the dictionaries

• Endure
• Former
• Hope
• Hypocrite
• Yesterday
• Bildad

Commentaries on Job 8

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings