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 go on like this? You sound like a blustering wind. 3Does God twist justice? Does the Almighty twist what is right? Your children must have sinned against him, so their punishment was well deserved. 5But if you pray to God and seek the favor of the Almighty, 6and if you are pure and live with integrity, he will surely rise up and restore your happy home.

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 these celebrations ended—sometimes after several days—Job would purify his children. He would get up early in the morning and offer a burnt offering for each of them. For Job said to himself, “Perhaps my children have sinned and have cursed God in their hearts.” This was Job’s regular practice.
• Job 5:4Their children are abandoned far from help; they are crushed in court with no one to defend them.
• Job 18:16Their roots will dry up, and their branches will wither.
• Genesis 13:13But the people of this area were extremely wicked and constantly sinned against the Lord.
• Genesis 19:13For we are about to destroy this city completely. The outcry against this place is so great it has reached the Lord, and he 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

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