Job 8:3

Douay-Rheims Bible

Doth God pervert judgment, or doth the Almighty overthrow that which is just?

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Does God pervert justice?Does the Almighty pervert what is right?

Hebrew Names Version
Does God pervert justice? Or does Shaddai pervert righteousness?

King James Version
Doth God pervert judgment? or doth the Almighty pervert justice?

English Standard Version
Does God pervert justice? Or does the Almighty pervert the right?

New Century Version
God does not twist justice; the Almighty does not make wrong what is right.

New English Translation
Does God pervert justice? Or does the Almighty pervert what is right?

Amplified Bible
"Does God pervert justice? Or does the Almighty pervert righteousness?

New American Standard Bible
"Does God pervert justice? Or does the Almighty pervert what is right?

World English Bible
Does God pervert justice? Or does the Almighty pervert righteousness?

Geneva Bible (1587)
Doeth God peruert iudgement? or doeth the Almightie subuert iustice?

Legacy Standard Bible
Does God pervert justice?Or does the Almighty pervert what is right?

Berean Standard Bible
Does God pervert justice? Or does the Almighty pervert what is right?

Contemporary English Version
Does God All-Powerful stand in the way of justice?

Complete Jewish Bible
Does God distort judgment? Does Shaddai pervert justice?

Darby Translation
Doth God pervert judgment, and the Almighty pervert justice?

Easy-to-Read Version
God is always fair. God All-Powerful does what is right.

George Lamsa Translation
Does God pervert justice? Or does the Almighty pervert right?

Good News Translation
God never twists justice; he never fails to do what is right.

Lexham English Bible
Does God pervert justice, or Shaddai pervert righteousness?

Literal Translation
Or does God pervert judgment? Or does the Almighty pervert the right?

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Doth God peruerte the thinge that is laufull? Or, doth the Allmightie destroye the thynge that is right?

American Standard Version
Doth God pervert justice? Or doth the Almighty pervert righteousness?

Bible in Basic English
Does God give wrong decisions? or is the Ruler of all not upright in his judging?

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Doth God paruert the thing that is lawfull? or doth the almightie destroy the thing that is right?

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Doth God pervert judgment? Or doth the Almighty pervert justice?

King James Version (1611)
Doth God peruert iudgement? or doth the Almightie peruert iustice?

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Will the Lord be unjust when he judges; or will he that has made all things pervert justice?

English Revised Version
Doth God pervert judgment? or doth the Almighty pervert justice?

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Whether God supplauntith, `ethir disseyueth, doom, and whether Almyyti God distrieth that, that is iust?

Update Bible Version
Does God pervert justice? Or does the Almighty pervert righteousness?

Webster's Bible Translation
Doth God pervert judgment; or doth the Almighty pervert justice?

New King James Version
Does God subvert judgment? Or does the Almighty pervert justice?

New Living Translation
Does God twist justice? Does the Almighty twist what is right?

New Life Bible
Does God make wrong what is fair? Does the All-powerful make wrong what is right?

New Revised Standard
Does God pervert justice? Or does the Almighty pervert the right?

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Should, GOD, pervert justice? Or, the Almighty, pervert righteousness?

Revised Standard Version
Does God pervert justice? Or does the Almighty pervert the right?

Young's Literal Translation
Doth God pervert judgment? And doth the Mighty One pervert justice?

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Does God pervert justice? Or does the Almighty pervert what is right?

Contextual Overview

¹ Then Baldad, the Suhite, answered, and said: ² How long wilt thou speak these things, and how long shall the words of thy mouth be like a strong wind? ³ Doth God pervert judgment, or doth the Almighty overthrow that which is just? ⁴ Although thy children have sinned against him, and he hath left them in the hand of their iniquity: ⁵ Yet if thou wilt arise early to God, and wilt beseech the Almighty: ⁶ If thou wilt walk clean and upright, he will presently awake unto thee, and will make the dwelling of thy justice peaceable: ⁷ In so much, that if thy former things were small thy latter things would be multiplied exceedingly.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

God: Job 4:17, Job 9:2, Job 10:3, Job 19:7, Job 34:5, Job 34:12, Job 34:17-19, Job 40:8, Genesis 18:25, Deuteronomy 32:4, 2 Chronicles 19:7, Ezekiel 18:25, Ezekiel 33:17, Ezekiel 33:20, Psalms 89:14, Daniel 9:14, Romans 2:5, Romans 3:4-6

Almighty: Job 21:15, Job 21:20, Job 34:10-12, Job 35:13, Job 40:2, Psalms 99:4, Revelation 15:3, Revelation 16:7

Reciprocal: Genesis 18:23 - Wilt Job 4:11 - the stout Job 13:4 - ye are forgers Job 21:27 - I know Job 22:20 - our substance Job 34:37 - multiplieth Job 36:23 - Thou Zephaniah 3:5 - he will Romans 3:6 - for then Romans 9:14 - Is there unrighteousness 2 Thessalonians 1:5 - righteous

Cross-References

Genesis 7:11
In the six hundredth year of the life of Noe, in the second month, in the seventeenth day of the month, all the fountains of the great deep were broken up, and the floodgates of heaven were opened:

Genesis 7:24
And the waters prevailed upon the earth a hundred and fifty days.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Doth God pervert judgment?.... In his dealings with men in the way of his providence; no, he does not; here Bildad opposes himself to Job, who he thought had charged God with injustice in dealing with him, and his children, in the manner he had done: the same thing is intended in the following question,

or doth the Almighty pervert justice? for judgment and justice are the same, and often go together in Scripture, as being done either by God or men, when righteousness is executed by them, and this is never perverted by the Lord; there is no unrighteousness in him, neither in his nature, nor in his ways and works, either of providence or of grace; he is the Judge of all the earth, that does and will do right; to subvert a man in his cause, he approves not of in others, and will never do it himself; to justify the wicked, and condemn the just, are both an abomination to him, and therefore neither of these can ever be thought to be done by him; for though he justifies the ungodly, he does not justify their ungodliness, nor them in it, but from it, and that by the perfect righteousness of his Son; whereby the law is fulfilled, and justice satisfied, and so he is just while he is the justifier of him that believes in Jesus; though he is gracious and merciful, he is also righteous, and will not clear the guilty, or pardon sin without satisfaction to his justice; and such as are truly just or righteous, he never condemns here or hereafter; he may afflict them, but he delivers them out of their afflictions, nor are they ever forsaken by him; and, on the contrary, he punishes wicked men in this world, and in that to come, as he has the angels that sinned, the old world, Sodom and Gomorrah, and many others, and all wicked men will be punished with everlasting destruction; yea, even so strict is his punitive justice, that the sins of his own people being laid and found on his Son as their surety, he has most severely punished him for them; he awoke the sword of justice against him, spared him not, but delivered him to death for us all; and though he forgives the iniquities of his children, he takes vengeance on their inventions, and chastises them for their sins, that they may not be condemned with the world; and, on the other hand, he is not unrighteous to forget their work and labour of love, which he rewards in a way of grace, as well as it is a righteous thing with him to render tribulation to them that trouble them: the righteousness of God is known by the judgments he executes on wicked men, and especially will be manifest in his judgments on antichrist; and though the justice of God in the course of his providence, in some instances, may not now be so clear, his judgments will be made manifest, and especially at the great day of judgment, when everything shall be brought to account, and God will judge the world in righteousness; all which, we may be assured of, is and will be executed by him, from the consideration of his nature and perfections, and particularly from the name he goes by in this passage, being El, the mighty God, who is able to save and to destroy, to save the righteous, and destroy the wicked; and is Shaddai, all sufficient, stands in need of nothing; nor can he receive anything that is not his own, and therefore incapable of being bribed to the perversion of justice and judgment.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Doth God pervert judgment? - That is, Does God afflict people unjustly? Does he show favor to the evil, and punish the good? Bildad here undoubtedly refers to Job, and supposes that he had brought this charge against God. But he had not done it in so many words. He had complained of the severity of his sufferings, and had indulged in irreverent language toward God. But he had not advanced the charge openly that God had perverted right. Bildad strenuously maintains that God would do right. His argument is based on the supposition that God would deal with people in this life according to their character; and thus he infers that Job must have been guilty of some great wickedness, that punishment should come upon him in this manner.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Job 8:3. Doth God pervert judgment! — God afflicts thee; can he afflict thee for naught? As he is just, his judgment is just; and he could not inflict punishment unless there be a cause.