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Hebrew Names Version

Job 8:4

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

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Righteous;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Bildad;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Greatness of God;   Hypocrisy;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Job, the Book of;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Job, Book of;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Since your children sinned against him,he gave them over to their rebellion.
King James Version
If thy children have sinned against him, and he have cast them away for their transgression;
English Standard Version
If your children have sinned against him, he has delivered them into the hand of their transgression.
New Century Version
Your children sinned against God, and he punished them for their sins.
New English Translation
If your children sinned against him, he gave them over to the penalty of their sin.
Amplified Bible
"If your children have sinned against Him, Then He has handed them over to the power of their transgression and punished them.
New American Standard Bible
"If your sons sinned against Him, Then He turned them over to the power of their wrongdoing.
World English Bible
If your children have sinned against him, He has delivered them into the hand of their disobedience;
Geneva Bible (1587)
If thy sonnes haue sinned against him, and he hath sent them into the place of their iniquitie,
Legacy Standard Bible
If your sons sinned against Him,Then He sent them into the power of their transgression.
Berean Standard Bible
When your children sinned against Him, He gave them over to their rebellion.
Contemporary English Version
He made your children pay for their sins.
Complete Jewish Bible
If your children sinned against him, he left them to be victims of their own offense.
Darby Translation
If thy children have sinned against him, he hath also given them over into the hand of their transgression.
Easy-to-Read Version
If your children sinned against God, he punished them. They paid for their sins.
George Lamsa Translation
If your children have sinned against him, he has sent them away in their transgressions.
Good News Translation
Your children must have sinned against God, and so he punished them as they deserved.
Lexham English Bible
If your children sinned against him, then he sent them into the power of their transgression.
Literal Translation
If your sons have sinned against Him, and if He has sent them away in the hand of their transgression,
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Whe thy sonnes synned agaynst him, dyd not he punysh the for their wickednesse?
American Standard Version
If thy children have sinned against him, And he hath delivered them into the hand of their transgression;
Bible in Basic English
If your children have done evil against him, then their punishment is from his hand.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
For seyng that thy sonnes sinned against him, did not he send them into the place of their iniquitie?
JPS Old Testament (1917)
If thy children sinned against Him, He delivered them into the hand of their transgression.
King James Version (1611)
If thy children haue sinned against him, and he haue cast them away for their transgression:
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
If thy sons have sinned before him, he has cast them away because of their transgression.
English Revised Version
If thy children have sinned against him, and he have delivered them into the hand of their transgression:
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Yhe, thouy thi sones synneden ayens hym, and he lefte hem in the hond of her wickidnesse;
Update Bible Version
If your sons have sinned against him, And he has delivered them into the hand of their transgression;
Webster's Bible Translation
If thy children have sinned against him, and he hath cast them away for their transgression;
New King James Version
If your sons have sinned against Him, He has cast them away for their transgression.
New Living Translation
Your children must have sinned against him, so their punishment was well deserved.
New Life Bible
If your children have sinned against Him, He has given them over to the power of their sin.
New Revised Standard
If your children sinned against him, he delivered them into the power of their transgression.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Though, thy children, sinned against him, and he delivered them into the hand of their transgression,
Douay-Rheims Bible
Although thy children have sinned against him, and he hath left them in the hand of their iniquity:
Revised Standard Version
If your children have sinned against him, he has delivered them into the power 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,
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"If your sons sinned against Him, Then He delivered them into the power of their transgression.

Contextual Overview

1 Then Bildad the Shuchite answered, 2 "How long will you speak these things? Shall the words of your mouth be a mighty wind? 3 Does God pervert justice? Or does Shaddai pervert righteousness? 4 If your children have sinned against him, He has delivered them into the hand of their disobedience; 5 If you want to seek God diligently, Make your supplication to Shaddai. 6 If you were pure and upright, Surely now he would awaken for you, And make the habitation of your righteousness prosperous. 7 Though your beginning was small, Yet your latter end would greatly increase.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

he have cast: Job 1:5, Job 1:18, Job 1:19, Job 5:4, Job 18:16-19, Genesis 13:13, Genesis 19:13-25

for their transgression: Heb. in the hand of their transgression

Reciprocal: Job 4:11 - the stout Job 13:4 - ye are forgers Job 18:19 - neither Job 19:3 - ye reproached Job 22:20 - our substance Isaiah 64:7 - because

Cross-References

Genesis 8:17
Bring forth with you every living thing that is with you of all flesh, including birds, cattle, and every creeping thing that creeps on the eretz; that they may breed abundantly in the eretz, and be fruitful, and multiply on the eretz."
Genesis 8:19
Every animal, every creeping thing, and every bird, whatever moves on the eretz, after their families, went forth out of the teivah.
2 Kings 19:37
It happened, as he was worshipping in the house of Nisrokh his god, that Adrammelekh and Sar'etzer struck him with the sword: and they escaped into the land of Ararat. Esar-Haddon his son reigned in his place.
Isaiah 37:38
It happened, as he was worshipping in the house of Nisrokh his god, that Adrammelekh and Sar'etzer his sons struck him with the sword; and they escaped into the land of Ararat. Esar-Haddon his son reigned in his place.
Jeremiah 51:27
Set up a standard in the land, blow the shofar among the nations, prepare the nations against her, call together against her the kingdoms of Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz: appoint a marshal against her; cause the horses to come up as the rough canker-worm.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

If thy children have sinned against him,.... As no doubt they had, and, as Bildad thought, in a very notorious manner, and therefore were righteously punished for them; this instance is produced as a proof of God's not perverting, but doing justice, and the rather, because it was on account of this that it was supposed that Job charged, or was ready to charge, God with injustice; this was so far from it, that it was a righteous thing to do it, "if" or "seeing" his children had sinned; or "because" they have sinned, or "though" they have sinned, as the words h are by some differently rendered; and either way shows that God did not pervert justice, but acted agreeably to it. Mr. Broughton renders them, "as thy children have sinned against him, so hath he sent them into the hand of their trespass"; as a righteous retaliation for it: that Job's children had sinned, there is no question to be made of it; they were born in sin, though born of godly parents; and though they had a religious education, yet no doubt were guilty of sin in their younger years, as well as when grown up; and even though good men, as there may be reason to conclude they were, yet daily sinning, for there are none without sin; and also it is true, that all sin is against God, contrary to his nature and will, a breach and transgression of his law, and an act of hostility against himself, and a trampling under foot, or at least a neglect, of his legislative power and authority, which is an aggravation of it; yet it does not appear that Job's children were guilty of any notorious sins or atrocious crimes, or lived a sinful course of life, for which the judgments of God came upon them; nor is it a clear case that they were taken away by death in the manner they were on account of their sins, but rather purely for the trial of Job's integrity, faith, and patience:

and he have cast them away for their transgression; or "by the hand of it" i; by means of it, because of it, being provoked with it. Bildad represents them as abandoned sinners, as castaways and reprobates, rejected of God with abhorrence, and utterly ruined. Some render it, "hath sent them into the hand of their transgression" k, or trespass; that is, delivered them up to the power and dominion of sin, gave them up to their hearts' lusts, and to vile affections, to do things not convenient, and which they pursued to their ruin; the Targum is,

"he sent them into the place of their transgression l;''

into hell, which their transgressions deserved, and for which they were fitted by them. Some a little more mildly render the words, "he sent them away" m; that is, dismissed them out of the world, took them out of it by death; which dismission is sometimes in peace, as good old Simeon prayed for, and sometimes in wrath, as Saul was taken away, see Luke 2:29; the latter is the meaning here.

h אם "quandoquidem", Michaelis; "quia", Vatablus; "etiamsi", V. L. i ביד פשעם "in manu iniquitatis suae", V. L. so Montanus, Cocceius. k "In manum transgressionis ipsorum", Piscator, Beza, Schmidt, Michaelis, Schultens; "in potestatem defectionis ipsorum", Junius Tremellius. l So Munster m וישלחמ "et dimisit eos", Drusius "e mundo", Pagninus, Vatablus; so Gersom.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

If 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 supposition that if they should now do it, certain other consequences would follow; but the idea is, that since they had been cut off in their sins, if Job would even now seek God with a proper spirit, he might be restored to prosperity, though his beginning should be small; Job 8:7.

And he have cast them away - Bildad supposes that they had been disowned by God, and had been put to death.

For their transgression - Margin, in the hand of their. The Hebrew is, by the hand of their transgression; i. e, their sin has been the cause of it, or it has been by the instrumentality of their sin. What foundation Bildad had for this opinion, derived from the life and character of the sons of Job, we have no means of ascertaining. The probability is, however, that he had learned in general that they had been cut off; and that, on the general principle which he maintained, that God deals with men in this life according to their character, he inferred that they must have been distinguished for wickedness. Men not unfrequently argue in this way when sudden calamity comes upon others.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Job 8:4. 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 awayHas sent them off, says the Targum, to the place of their transgression-to that punishment due to their sins.


 
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