Bildad: Job Should Repent
Job 8:20
In 11 translations
- BSB
- Behold, God does not reject the blameless, nor will He strengthen the hand of evildoers.
- KJV
- Behold, God will not cast away a perfect man, neither will he help the evil doers:help…: Heb. take the ungodly by the handcome: Heb. shall not be
- WEB
- “Behold, God will not cast away a blameless man, neither will he uphold the evildoers.
- ASV
- Behold, God will not cast away a perfect man, Neither will he uphold the evil-doers.
- LSV
- Behold, God does not reject the perfect, || Nor takes hold on the hand of evildoers.
- YLT
- Lo, God doth not reject the perfect, Nor taketh hold on the hand of evil doers.
- DBY
- Behold, God will not cast off a perfect man, neither will he take evil-doers by the hand.El
- DRC
- God will not cast away the simple, nor reach out his hand to the evildoer:
- GNV
- Behold, God will not cast away an vpright man, neither will he take the wicked by the hand,
- JPS
- Behold, God will not cast away an innocent man, neither will He uphold the evil-doers;
- LXXE
- For the Lord will by no means reject the harmless man; but he will not receive any gift of the ungodly.
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Original-language editions
- WLC
- הֶן־אֵ֭ל לֹ֣א יִמְאַס־תָּ֑ם וְלֹֽא־יַ֝חֲזִ֗יק בְּיַד־מְרֵעִֽים׃
- LXX-Br
- Ὁ γὰρ Κύριος οὐ μὴ ἀποποιήσηται τὸν ἄκακον· πᾶν δὲ δῶρον ἀσεβοῦς οὐ δέξεται.
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Cross-references most cited first
- Job 4:7Consider now, I plead: Who, being innocent, has ever perished? Or where have the upright been destroyed?
- Psalms 37:37Consider the blameless and observe the upright, for posterity awaits the man of peace.
- Psalms 37:24Though he falls, he will not be overwhelmed, for the LORD is holding his hand.
- Isaiah 45:1This is what the LORD says to Cyrus His anointed, whose right hand I have grasped to subdue nations before him, to disarm kings, to open the doors before him, so that the gates will not be shut:
- Psalms 94:14For the LORD will not forsake His people; He will never abandon His heritage.
- Job 21:30Indeed, the evil man is spared from the day of calamity, delivered from the day of wrath.
- Job 9:22It is all the same, and so I say, ‘He destroys both the blameless and the wicked.’
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