Job 8:4 “When your children sinned against Him, He gave them over to their rebe…”

Job 8:4

When your children sinned against Him, He gave them over to their rebellion.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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

World English Bible

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

American Standard Version

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

Geneva Bible 1599

If thy sonnes haue sinned against him, and he hath sent them into the place of their iniquitie,

Darby Translation

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

Young's Literal Translation

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

Bible in Basic English

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

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Cross references

“he have cast”

Job 1:5 Job 5:4 Job 18:16–19 Genesis 19:13–25 Genesis 13:13 Job 1:18

Job 1:5 · BSB

And when the days of feasting were over, Job would send for his children to purify them, rising early in the morning to offer burnt offerings for all of them. For Job thought, “Perhaps my children have sinned and cursed…

Job 5:4 · BSB

His sons are far from safety, crushed in court without a defender.

Job 18:16–19 · BSB

The roots beneath him dry up, and the branches above him wither away.

Genesis 19:13–25 · BSB

because we are about to destroy this place. For the outcry to the LORD against its people is so great that He has sent us to destroy it.”

Genesis 13:13 · BSB

But the men of Sodom were wicked, sinning greatly against the LORD.

Job 1:18 · BSB

While he was still speaking, another messenger came and reported: “Your sons and daughters were eating and drinking wine in their oldest brother’s house,

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

3Does God pervert justice? Does the Almighty pervert what is right?

5But if you would earnestly seek God and ask the Almighty for mercy,

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