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Bildad: Job Should Repent

Job 8:4

In 11 translations

BSB
When your children sinned against Him, He gave them over to their rebellion.
KJV
If thy children have sinned against him, and he have cast them away for their transgression;for…: Heb. in the hand of their transgression
WEB
If your children have sinned against him, he has delivered them into the hand of their disobedience.
ASV
If thy children have sinned against him, And he hath delivered them into the hand of their transgression;
LSV
If your sons have sinned before Him, || And He sends them away, || By the hand of their transgression,
YLT
If thy sons have sinned before Him, And He doth send them away, By the hand of their transgression,
DBY
If thy children have sinned against him, he hath also given them over into the hand of their transgression.
DRC
Although thy children have sinned against him, and he hath left them in the hand of their iniquity:
GNV
If thy sonnes haue sinned against him, and he hath sent them into the place of their iniquitie,
JPS
If thy children sinned against Him, He delivered them into the hand of their transgression.
LXXE
If thy sons have sinned before him, he has cast them away because of their transgression.

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Original-language editions

WLC
אִם־בָּנֶ֥יךָ חָֽטְאוּ־ל֑וֹ וַֽ֝יְשַׁלְּחֵ֗ם בְּיַד־פִּשְׁעָֽם׃
LXX-Br
Εἰ οἱ υἱοί σου ἥμαρτον ἐναντίον αὐτοῦ, ἀπέστειλεν ἐν χειρὶ ἀνομίας αὐτῶν.

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Cross-references most cited first

  • Job 1:5And 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…
  • Job 1:18–19While he was still speaking, another messenger came and reported: “Your sons and daughters were eating and drinking wine in their oldest brother’s house, when suddenly a mighty wind swept in from the desert and struck…
  • Job 5:4His sons are far from safety, crushed in court without a defender.
  • Job 18:16–19The roots beneath him dry up, and the branches above him wither away. The memory of him perishes from the earth, and he has no name in the land. He is driven from light into darkness and is chased from the inhabited…
  • Genesis 19:13–25because 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.” So Lot went out and spoke to the sons-in-law who were pledged in marriage to his…
  • Genesis 13:13But the men of Sodom were wicked, sinning greatly against the LORD.

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