Job 8:4 Meaning and Explanation
“If thy children have sinned against him, and he have cast them away for their transgression;”
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Read Full Chapter →Bildad suggests Job's children died because of their own sin.
What Does Job 8:4 Mean?
Bildad now turns to the freshest wound of all. Job's sons and daughters had been killed when a great wind struck the house where they feasted. With chilling logic Bildad supposes they brought it on themselves, that God simply gave them over to their guilt.
Few sentences in Scripture are colder. To explain a parent's shattering loss as the just penalty of the dead is to add grief to grief. The text lets us feel how cruelly true doctrine can be wielded without love. Christ would weep at a tomb rather than lecture the mourners, and He teaches us that calamity is not a scoreboard of the sufferer's sins.
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What does Job 8:4 mean?
Bildad suggests Job's children died because of their own sin.