Job 8:4

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

If thy sons have sinned before Him, And He doth send them away, By the hand of their transgression,

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  • Job 1:5 : 5 and it cometh to pass, when they have gone round the days of the banquet, that Job doth send and sanctify them, and hath risen early in the morning, and caused to ascend burnt-offerings -- the number of them all -- for Job said, `Perhaps my sons have sinned, yet blessed God in their heart.' Thus doth Job all the days.
  • Job 1:18-19 : 18 While this `one' is speaking another also hath come and saith, `Thy sons and thy daughters are eating, and drinking wine, in the house of their brother, the first-born. 19 And lo, a great wind hath come from over the wilderness, and striketh against the four corners of the house, and it falleth on the young men, and they are dead, and I am escaped -- only I alone -- to declare `it' to thee.'
  • Job 5:4 : 4 Far are his sons from safety, And they are bruised in the gate, And there is no deliverer.
  • Job 18:16-19 : 16 From beneath his roots are dried up, And from above cut off is his crop. 17 His memorial hath perished from the land, And he hath no name on the street. 18 They thrust him from light unto darkness, And from the habitable earth cast him out. 19 He hath no continuator, Nor successor among his people, And none is remaining in his dwellings.
  • Gen 13:13 : 13 and the men of Sodom `are' evil, and sinners before Jehovah exceedingly.
  • Gen 19:13-25 : 13 for we are destroying this place, for their cry hath been great `before' the face of Jehovah, and Jehovah doth send us to destroy it.' 14 And Lot goeth out, and speaketh unto his sons-in-law, those taking his daughters, and saith, `Rise, go out from this place, for Jehovah is destroying the city;' and he is as `one' mocking in the eyes of his sons-in-law. 15 And when the dawn hath ascended, then the messengers press upon Lot, saying, `Rise, take thy wife, and thy two daughters who are found present, lest thou be consumed in the iniquity of the city.' 16 And he lingereth, and the men lay hold on his hand, and on the hand of his wife, and on the hand of his two daughters, through the mercy of Jehovah unto him, and they bring him out, and cause him to rest without the city. 17 And it cometh to pass when he hath brought them out without, that he saith, `Escape for thy life; look not expectingly behind thee, nor stand thou in all the circuit; to the mountain escape, lest thou be consumed.' 18 And Lot saith unto them, `Not `so', I pray thee, my lord; 19 lo, I pray thee, thy servant hath found grace in thine eyes, and thou dost make great thy kindness which thou hast done with me by saving my life, and I am unable to escape to the mountain, lest the evil cleave `to' me, and I have died; 20 lo, I pray thee, this city `is' near to flee thither, and it `is' little; let me escape, I pray thee, thither, (is it not little?) and my soul doth live.' 21 And he saith unto him, `Lo, I have accepted thy face also for this thing, without overthrowing the city `for' which thou hast spoken; 22 haste, escape thither, for I am not able to do anything till thine entering thither;' therefore hath he calleth the name of the city Zoar. 23 The sun hath gone out on the earth, and Lot hath entered into Zoar, 24 and Jehovah hath rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from Jehovah, from the heavens; 25 and He overthroweth these cities, and all the circuit, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which is shooting up from the ground.

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  • Job 8:5-6
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    5If thou dost seek early unto God, And unto the Mighty makest supplication,

    6If pure and upright thou `art', Surely now He waketh for thee, And hath completed The habitation of thy righteousness.

  • 3Doth God pervert judgment? And doth the Mighty One pervert justice?

  • Job 35:6-7
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    6If thou hast sinned, what dost thou against Him? And thy transgressions have been multiplied, What dost thou to Him?

    7If thou hast been righteous, What dost thou give to Him? Or what from thy hand doth He receive?

  • Ps 89:30-31
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    30If his sons forsake My law, And in My judgments do not walk;

    31If My statutes they pollute, And My commands do not keep,

  • 19God layeth up for his sons his sorrow, He giveth recompense unto him -- and he knoweth.

  • 4Far are his sons from safety, And they are bruised in the gate, And there is no deliverer.

  • 15If I have said, `I recount thus,' Lo, a generation of Thy sons I have deceived.

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    46`When they sin against Thee (for there is not a man who sinneth not), and Thou hast been angry with them, and hast given them up before an enemy, and they have taken captive their captivity unto the land of the enemy far off or near;

    47and they have turned `it' back unto their heart in the land whither they have been taken captive, and have turned back, and made supplication unto Thee, in the land of their captors, saying, We have sinned and done perversely -- we have done wickedly;

  • 7For this I am not propitious to thee, Thy sons have forsaken Me, And are satisfied by that which is not god, I satisfy them, and they commit adultery, And at the house of a harlot They gather themselves together.

  • 4Yea, thou dost make reverence void, And dost diminish meditation before God.

  • 7According to their abundance so they sinned against Me, Their honour into shame I change.

  • 14If I sinned, then Thou hast observed me, And from mine iniquity dost not acquit me,

  • 14If his sons multiply -- for them `is' a sword. And his offspring `are' not satisfied `with' bread.

  • 13For thou turnest against God thy spirit? And hast brought out words from thy mouth:

  • 14If iniquity `is' in thy hand, put it far off, And let not perverseness dwell in thy tents.

  • Job 36:8-9
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    8And if prisoners in fetters They are captured with cords of affliction,

    9Then He declareth to them their work, And their transgressions, Because they have become mighty,

  • 14And -- lo, he hath begotten a son, And he seeth all the sins of his father, That he hath done, and he feareth, And doth not do like them,

  • 25If a man sin against a man, then hath God judged him; but if against Jehovah a man sin, who doth pray for him?' and they hearken not to the voice of their father, though Jehovah hath delighted to put them to death.

  • 18If `one' doth destroy him from his place, Then it hath feigned concerning him, I have not seen thee!

  • 27Thy first father sinned, And thine interpreters transgressed against me,

  • Job 22:4-5
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    4Because of thy reverence Doth He reason `with' thee? He entereth with thee into judgment:

    5Is not thy wickedness abundant? And there is no end to thine iniquities.

  • 5If, truly, over me ye magnify yourselves, And decide against me my reproach;

  • Ps 7:3-4
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    3O Jehovah, my God, if I have done this, If there is iniquity in my hands,

    4If I have done my well-wisher evil, And draw mine adversary without cause,

  • 4(He is tearing himself in his anger.) For thy sake is earth forsaken? And removed is a rock from its place?

  • 5It hath done corruptly to Him; Their blemish is not His sons', A generation perverse and crooked!

  • 8Dost thou also make void My judgment? Dost thou condemn Me, That thou mayest be righteous?

  • 11Then passed on hath the spirit, Yea, he doth transgress, And doth ascribe this his power to his god.

  • 18Thy way and thy doings have done these to thee, This `is' thy vexation, for `it is' bitter, For it hath struck unto thy heart.

  • 18`When a man hath a son apostatizing and rebellious -- he is not hearkening to the voice of his father, and to the voice of his mother, and they have chastised him, and he doth not hearken unto them --

  • 7If my step doth turn aside from the way, And after mine eyes hath my heart gone, And to my hands cleaved hath blemish,

  • 10And wander continually do his sons, Yea, they have begged, And have sought out of their dry places.

  • 6That Thou inquirest for mine iniquity, And for my sin seekest?

  • 3Also -- on this Thou hast opened Thine eyes, And dost bring me into judgment with Thee.

  • 36`When they sin against Thee -- for there is not a man who sinneth not -- and Thou hast been angry with them, and hast given them before an enemy, and taken them captive have their captors, unto a land far off or near;

  • 40`And -- they have confessed their iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers, in their trespass which they have trespassed against Me, and also, that they have walked with Me, in opposition,

  • 4Against whom do ye sport yourselves? Against whom enlarge ye the mouth? Prolong ye the tongue? Are not ye children of transgression? a false seed?

  • 8As I have seen -- ploughers of iniquity, And sowers of misery, reap it!

  • 25Your iniquities have turned these away, And your sins have kept the good from you.

  • 19And Jehovah seeth and despiseth -- For the provocation of His sons and His daughters.

  • 4Hast thou not henceforth called to Me, `My father, Thou `art' the leader of my youth?

  • 29Why do ye strive with Me? All of you have transgressed against Me, An affirmation of Jehovah.

  • 1Hear, ye sons, the instruction of a father, And give attention to know understanding.

  • 8and if ye are apart from chastening, of which all have become partakers, then bastards are ye, and not sons.