Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Job 8:4 Cross-References
Explore 6 cross-references for Job 8:4 from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, connecting Job chapter 8 verse 4 to related passages throughout the Bible.
“If thy children have sinned against him, and he have cast them away for their transgression; for: Heb. in the hand of their transgression”
Job 8:4 (KJV)
Commentary on Job 8:4
Bildad cruelly suggests Job's children deserved their deaths: 'If thy children have sinned against him, and he have cast them away for their transgression.' The conditional 'if' (im, אִם) is rhetorical—Bildad assumes their sin as fact. The phrase 'cast them away' (shalach be-yad, שָׁלַח בְּיַד, literally 'sent them into the hand') means to deliver them over to the power of their sin's consequences. This brutal assessment adds profound insult to Job's injury.Bildad's theology contains truth—sin brings death (Romans 6:23)—but lacks compassion and misapplies general principle to specific case. He...
Source: KJV Study Commentary
Cross-References for Job 8:4
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“when the days of their feasting had run their course”
“there came also another”
“His roots shall be dried up beneath”
“because the outcry against them has grown great before Yahweh that Yahweh has sent us to destroy it.,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.,כִּי־מַשְׁחִתִים אֲנַחְנוּ אֶת־הַמָּקוֹם הַזֶּה כִּי־גָדְלָה צַעֲקָתָם אֶת־פְּנֵי יְהוָה וַיְשַׁלְּחֵנוּ יְהוָה לְשַׁחֲתָהּ׃ ,for we will destroy this place, because the cry of them is waxed great before the LORD; and the LORD hath sent us to destroy it.”
“But the men of Sodom were wicked and sinners before the LORD exceedingly.”