Job 8:4
Good News Translation
Your children must have sinned against God, and so he punished them as they deserved.

New Revised Standard Version
If your children sinned against him, he delivered them into the power of their transgression.

Contemporary English Version
He made your children pay for their sins.

New American Bible
If your children have sinned against him and he has left them in the grip of their guilt,

Douay-Rheims Bible
Although thy children have sinned against him, and he hath left them in the hand of their iniquity:

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Although thy children have sinned against him, and he hath left them in the hand of their iniquity:

he have cast.

Job 1:5,18,19 And when the days of their feasting were gone about, Job sent to them, and sanctified them: and rising up early, offered holocausts for every one of them. For he said: Lest perhaps my sons have sinned, and have blessed God in their hearts. So did Job all days. . . .

Job 5:4 His children shall be far from safety, and shall be destroyed in the gate, and there shall be none to deliver them.

Job 18:16-19 Let his roots be dried up beneath, and his harvest destroyed above. . . .

Genesis 13:13 And the men of Sodom were very wicked, and sinners before the face of the Lord beyond measure.

Genesis 19:13-25 For we will destroy this place, because their cry is grown loud before the Lord, who hath sent us to destroy them. . . .

for their transgression.

Context
Bildad: Job Should Repent
3Doth God pervert judgment, or doth the Almighty overthrow that which is just? 4Although thy children have sinned against him, and he hath left them in the hand of their iniquity:5Yet if thou wilt arise early to God, and wilt beseech the Almighty:…
Cross References
Job 1:5
And when the days of their feasting were gone about, Job sent to them, and sanctified them: and rising up early, offered holocausts for every one of them. For he said: Lest perhaps my sons have sinned, and have blessed God in their hearts. So did Job all days.

Job 1:18
He was yet speaking, and behold another came in, and said: Thy sons and daughters were eating and drinking wine in the house of their eldest brother,

Psalm 81:12
So I let them go according to the desires of their heart: they shall walk in their own inventions.

Job 8:3
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