English Standard Version
Job 8:3
3Does God pervert justice? Or does the Almighty pervert the right?
Job 8:3 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Doth God pervert judgment? or doth the Almighty pervert justice?
- New International Version (NIV)Does God pervert justice? Does the Almighty pervert what is right?
- New King James Version (NKJV)Does God subvert judgment? Or does the Almighty pervert justice?
- New Living Translation (NLT)Does God twist justice? Does the Almighty twist what is right?
Context of Job 8:3
1Then Bildad the Shuhite answered and said: 2"How long will you say these things, and the words of your mouth be a great wind? Does God pervert justice? Or does the Almighty pervert the right? 4If your children have sinned against him, he has delivered them into the hand of their transgression. 5If you will seek God and plead with the Almighty for mercy,
Read all of Job 8Job 8:3 word by word
הַ֭אֵל יְעַוֵּ֣ת מִשְׁפָּ֑ט וְאִם־שַׁ֝דַּ֗י יְעַוֵּֽת־צֶֽדֶק׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Job 8:3
- Job 4:17'Can mortal man be in the right before God? Can a man be pure before his Maker?
- Job 9:2"Truly I know that it is so: But how can a man be in the right before God?
- Job 10:3Does it seem good to you to oppress, to despise the work of your hands and favor the designs of the wicked?
- Job 19:7Behold, I cry out, 'Violence!' but I am not answered; I call for help, but there is no justice.
- Job 34:5For Job has said, 'I am in the right, and God has taken away my right;
- Job 40:8Will you even put me in the wrong? Will you condemn me that you may be in the right?
- Genesis 18:25Far be it from you to do such a thing, to put the righteous to death with the wicked, so that the righteous fare as the wicked! Far be that from you! Shall not the Judge of all the earth do what is just?"
- Deuteronomy 32:4"The Rock, his work is perfect, for all his ways are justice. A God of faithfulness and without iniquity, just and upright is he.
- 2 Chronicles 19:7Now then, let the fear of the Lord be upon you. Be careful what you do, for there is no injustice with the Lord our God, or partiality or taking bribes."
- Ezekiel 18:25"Yet you say, 'The way of the Lord is not just.' Hear now, O house of Israel: Is my way not just? Is it not your ways that are not just?
- Ezekiel 33:17"Yet your people say, 'The way of the Lord is not just,' when it is their own way that is not just.
- Psalms 89:14Righteousness and justice are the foundation of your throne; steadfast love and faithfulness go before you.
- Daniel 9:14Therefore the Lord has kept ready the calamity and has brought it upon us, for the Lord our God is righteous in all the works that he has done, and we have not obeyed his voice.
- Romans 2:5But because of your hard and impenitent heart you are storing up wrath for yourself on the day of wrath when God's righteous judgment will be revealed.
- Romans 3:4By no means! Let God be true though every one were a liar, as it is written, "That you may be justified in your words, and prevail when you are judged."
- Job 21:15What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? And what profit do we get if we pray to him?'
Commentaries on Job 8:3
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 3Doth God pervert judgment! - God afflicts thee; can he afflict thee for naught? As he is just, his judgment is just; and he could not inflict punishment unless there be a cause.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 3Doth God pervert judgment? - That is, Does God afflict people unjustly? Does he show favor to the evil, and punish the good? Bildad here undoubtedly refers to Job, and supposes that he had brought this charge against God. But he had not done it in so many words. He had complained of the severity of his sufferings, and had indulged in irreverent language toward God. But he had not advanced the charge openly that God had perverted right. Bildad strenuously…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. 33. The repetition of "pervert" gives an emphasis galling to Job (Job 34:12). "Wouldst thou have God," as thy words imply, "pervert judgment," by letting thy sins go unpunished? He assumes Job's guilt from his sufferings.Read the comment
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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
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