New King James Version
Job 8:4
4If your sons have sinned against Him, He has cast them away for their transgression.
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 Living Translation (NLT)Your children must have sinned against him, so their punishment was well deserved.
Context of Job 8:4
2“How long will you speak these things, And the words of your mouth be like a strong wind? 3Does God subvert judgment? Or does the Almighty pervert justice? If your sons have sinned against Him, He has cast them away for their transgression. 5If you would earnestly seek God And make your supplication to the Almighty, 6If you were pure and upright, Surely now He would awake for you, And prosper your rightful dwelling place.
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 1:5So it was, when the days of feasting had run their course, that Job would send and sanctify them, and he would rise early in the morning and offer 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.” Thus Job did regularly.
- Job 5:4His sons are far from safety, They are crushed in the gate, And there is no deliverer.
- Job 18:16His roots are dried out below, And his branch withers above.
- Genesis 13:13But the men of Sodom were exceedingly wicked and sinful against the Lord.
- Genesis 19:13For we will destroy this place, because the outcry against them has grown great before the face of the Lord, and 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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