Job 8 · Verse 4

Job 8:4

If thy children have sinned against him, and he have cast them away for their transgression;
Job 8:4, King James Version

Job 8:4 in other translations

BSBWhen your children sinned against Him, He gave them over to their rebellion.
WEBIf your children have sinned against him, he has delivered them into the hand of their disobedience.
ASVIf thy children have sinned against him, And he hath delivered them into the hand of their transgression;
YLTIf thy sons have sinned before Him, And He doth send them away, By the hand of their transgression,
DARBYIf thy children have sinned against him, he hath also given them over into the hand of their transgression.
BBEIf your children have done evil against him, then their punishment is from his hand.
WebsterIf thy children have sinned against him, and he hath cast them away for their transgression;

What does Job 8:4 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
4. 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 justice of God, which Job had arraigned. Thy children have sinned; God leaves them to the consequence of their sin; most cutting to the heart of the bereaved father.

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 4 If 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.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Job 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…

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Job 8:4 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

אִם\־'im-ifH518
בָּנֶ֥יךָba.Nei.khachildren yourH1121
חָֽטְאוּ\־cha.te.'u-they sinnedH2398
ל֑וֹloto him
וַֽ֝יְשַׁלְּחֵ֗םvay.sha.le.Chemand he sent themH7971
בְּיַד\־be.yad-in [the] hand ofH3027
פִּשְׁעָֽם\׃pish.'Amtransgression theirH6588

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Cross references for Job 8:4

  • Job 1:5

    And it was so, when the days of their feasting were gone about, that Job sent and sanctified them, and rose up early in the morning, and offered 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 did Job continually.

  • Job 5:4

    His children are far from safety, and they are crushed in the gate, neither is there any to deliver them.

  • Job 1:18-19

    While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said, Thy sons and thy daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother’s house: And, behold, there came a great wind from the wilderness, and smote the four corners of the house, and it fell upon the young men, and they are dead; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.

  • Genesis 19:13-25

    For we will destroy this place, because the cry of them is waxen great before the face of the Lord; and the Lord hath sent us to destroy it. And Lot went out, and spake unto his sons in law, which married his daughters, and said, Up, get you out of this place; for the Lord will destroy this city. But he seemed as one that mocked unto his sons in law. And when the morning arose, then the angels hastened Lot, saying, Arise, take thy wife, and thy two daughters, which are here; lest thou be consumed in the iniquity of the city. And while he lingered, the men laid hold upon his hand, and upon the hand of his wife, and upon the hand of his two daughters; the Lord being merciful unto him: and they brought him forth, and set him without the city. …

  • Job 18:16-19

    His roots shall be dried up beneath, and above shall his branch be cut off. His remembrance shall perish from the earth, and he shall have no name in the street. He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world. He shall neither have son nor nephew among his people, nor any remaining in his dwellings.

  • Genesis 13:13

    But the men of Sodom were wicked and sinners before the Lord exceedingly.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
he have cast.
1:5,18,19; 5:4; 18:16-19; Ge 13:13; 19:13-25
for their transgression. Heb. in the hand of theirtransgression.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (Samuel Bagster, c. 1836) · public domain

Context

  • Job 8:3

    Doth God pervert judgment? or doth the Almighty pervert justice?

  • Job 8:4

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

  • Job 8:5

    If thou wouldest seek unto God betimes, and make thy supplication to the Almighty;

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Job 8:4 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		Si tus hijos pecaron contra él, él los echó en el lugar de su pecado.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		Si tes fils ont péché contre lui, il les a aussi livrés en la main de leur transgression.
German
Elberfelder 1871		Wenn deine Kinder gegen ihn gesündigt haben, so gab er sie ihrer Übertretung preis.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		Etiam si filii tui peccaverunt ei, et dimisit eos in manu iniquitatis suæ: