Job 8:4 Parallel Translations

NASB:

GWT:

If your children sinned against him, he allowed them to suffer the consequences of their sinfulness.(GOD'S WORD®)

KJV:

If thy children have sinned against him, and he have cast them away for their transgression;

ASV:

If thy children have sinned against him, And he hath delivered them into the hand of their transgression;

BBE:

If your children have done evil against him, then their punishment is from his hand.

DBY:

If thy children have sinned against him, he hath also given them over into the hand of their transgression.

ERV:

If thy children have sinned against him, and he have delivered them into the hand of their transgression:

JPS:

If thy children sinned against Him, He delivered them into the hand of their transgression.

WBS:

If thy children have sinned against him, and he hath cast them away for their transgression;

WEB:

If your children have sinned against him, He has delivered them into the hand of their disobedience.

YLT:

If thy sons have sinned before Him, And He doth send them away, By the hand of their transgression,

Job 8:4 Cross References

XREF:

Job 1:5 When the days of feasting had completed their cycle, Job would send and consecrate them, rising up early in the morning and offering burnt offerings according to the number of them all; for Job said, "Perhaps my sons have sinned and cursed God in their hearts." Thus Job did continually.

Job 1:18 While he was still speaking, another also came and said, "Your sons and your daughters were eating and drinking wine in their oldest brother's house, (NASB ©1995)

Commentaries and Concordances

GSB:

8:4 If thy children have sinned against him, and he have cast them away for their {b} transgression;
(b) That is, has rewarded them according to their iniquity, meaning that Job should be warned by the example of his children, that he not offend God.

WES:

8:4 If - If thou wast innocent, thy children, upon whom a great part of these calamities fell, might be guilty; and therefore God is not unrighteous in these proceedings.

MHC:

8:1-7 Job spake much to the purpose; but Bildad, like an eager, angry disputant, turns it all off with this, How long wilt thou speak these things? Men's meaning is not taken aright, and then they are rebuked, as if they were evil-doers. Even in disputes on religion, it is too common to treat others with sharpness, and their arguments with contempt. Bildad's discourse shows that he had not a favourable opinion of Job's character. Job owned that God did not pervert judgment; yet it did not therefore follow that his children were cast-aways, or that they did for some great transgression. Extraordinary afflictions are not always the punishment of extraordinary sins, sometimes they are the trials of extraordinary graces: in judging of another's case, we ought to take the favorable side. Bildad puts Job in hope, that if he were indeed upright, he should yet see a good end of his present troubles. This is God's way of enriching the souls of his people with graces and comforts. The beginning is small, but the progress is to perfection. Dawning light grows to noon-day.

CONC:

Cast Delivered Disobedience Evil Penalty Power Punishment Sin Sinned Sons Transgression

Cast Children Delivered Disobedience Evil Hand Penalty Power Punishment Sin Sinned Transgression

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