God’s Word Translation
Job 8:4
4If your children sinned against him, he allowed them to suffer the consequences of their sinfulness.
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? How long will your words be so windy? 3Does God distort justice, or does the Almighty distort righteousness? If your children sinned against him, he allowed them to suffer the consequences of their sinfulness. 5If you search for God and plead for mercy from the Almighty, 6if you are moral and ethical, then he will rise up on your behalf and prove your righteousness by rebuilding your home.
Read all of Job 8Job 8:4 word by word
אִם־בָּנֶ֥יךָ חָֽטְאוּ־ל֑וֹ וַֽ֝יְשַׁלְּחֵ֗ם בְּיַד־פִּשְׁעָֽם׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Job 8:4
- Job 1:5When they finished having their parties, Job would send for them in order to cleanse them from sin. He would get up early in the morning and sacrifice burnt offerings for each of them. Job thought, “My children may have sinned and cursed God in their hearts.” Job offered sacrifices for them all the time.
- Job 5:4His children are far from help. They are crushed at the city gate, and no one is there to rescue them.
- Job 18:16His roots dry up under him. His branches wither over him.
- Genesis 13:13(The people who lived in Sodom were very wicked. They committed terrible sins against the Lord.)
- Genesis 19:13because we’re going to destroy this place. The complaints to the Lord against its people are so loud that the Lord has sent us to destroy 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
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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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