Ayub 8:4

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru

Jikalau anak-anakmu telah berbuat dosa terhadap Dia, maka Ia telah membiarkan mereka dikuasai oleh pelanggaran mereka.

Parallel Translations

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari
Jikalau anak-anakmu telah berbuat dosa terhadap Dia, maka Ia telah membiarkan mereka dikuasai oleh pelanggaran mereka.

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Kalau-kalau sebab anakmu sudah berbuat dosa, maka diserahkannya mereka itu ke dalam kuasa kejahatannya.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

he have cast: Job 1:5, Job 1:18, Job 1:19, Job 5:4, Job 18:16-19, Genesis 13:13, Genesis 19:13-25

for their transgression: Heb. in the hand of their transgression

Reciprocal: Job 4:11 - the stout Job 13:4 - ye are forgers Job 18:19 - neither Job 19:3 - ye reproached Job 22:20 - our substance Isaiah 64:7 - because

Gill's Notes on the Bible

If thy children have sinned against him,.... As no doubt they had, and, as Bildad thought, in a very notorious manner, and therefore were righteously punished for them; this instance is produced as a proof of God's not perverting, but doing justice, and the rather, because it was on account of this that it was supposed that Job charged, or was ready to charge, God with injustice; this was so far from it, that it was a righteous thing to do it, "if" or "seeing" his children had sinned; or "because" they have sinned, or "though" they have sinned, as the words h are by some differently rendered; and either way shows that God did not pervert justice, but acted agreeably to it. Mr. Broughton renders them, "as thy children have sinned against him, so hath he sent them into the hand of their trespass"; as a righteous retaliation for it: that Job's children had sinned, there is no question to be made of it; they were born in sin, though born of godly parents; and though they had a religious education, yet no doubt were guilty of sin in their younger years, as well as when grown up; and even though good men, as there may be reason to conclude they were, yet daily sinning, for there are none without sin; and also it is true, that all sin is against God, contrary to his nature and will, a breach and transgression of his law, and an act of hostility against himself, and a trampling under foot, or at least a neglect, of his legislative power and authority, which is an aggravation of it; yet it does not appear that Job's children were guilty of any notorious sins or atrocious crimes, or lived a sinful course of life, for which the judgments of God came upon them; nor is it a clear case that they were taken away by death in the manner they were on account of their sins, but rather purely for the trial of Job's integrity, faith, and patience:

and he have cast them away for their transgression; or "by the hand of it" i; by means of it, because of it, being provoked with it. Bildad represents them as abandoned sinners, as castaways and reprobates, rejected of God with abhorrence, and utterly ruined. Some render it, "hath sent them into the hand of their transgression" k, or trespass; that is, delivered them up to the power and dominion of sin, gave them up to their hearts' lusts, and to vile affections, to do things not convenient, and which they pursued to their ruin; the Targum is,

"he sent them into the place of their transgression l;''

into hell, which their transgressions deserved, and for which they were fitted by them. Some a little more mildly render the words, "he sent them away" m; that is, dismissed them out of the world, took them out of it by death; which dismission is sometimes in peace, as good old Simeon prayed for, and sometimes in wrath, as Saul was taken away, see Luke 2:29; the latter is the meaning here.

h אם "quandoquidem", Michaelis; "quia", Vatablus; "etiamsi", V. L. i ביד פשעם "in manu iniquitatis suae", V. L. so Montanus, Cocceius. k "In manum transgressionis ipsorum", Piscator, Beza, Schmidt, Michaelis, Schultens; "in potestatem defectionis ipsorum", Junius Tremellius. l So Munster m וישלחמ "et dimisit eos", Drusius "e mundo", Pagninus, Vatablus; so Gersom.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

If thy children have sinned against him - Bildad here assumes that the children of Job had been wicked, and had been cut off in their sins. This must have cut him to the quick, for there was nothing which a bereaved father would feel more acutely than this. The meaning here is somewhat weakened by the word “if.” The Hebrew אם 'ı̂m is rather to be taken in the sense of “since” - assuming it as an indisputable point, or taking it for granted. It was not a supposition that if they should now do it, certain other consequences would follow; but the idea is, that since they had been cut off in their sins, if Job would even now seek God with a proper spirit, he might be restored to prosperity, though his beginning should be small; Job 8:7.

And he have cast them away - Bildad supposes that they had been disowned by God, and had been put to death.

For their transgression - Margin, in the hand of their. The Hebrew is, by the hand of their transgression; i. e, their sin has been the cause of it, or it has been by the instrumentality of their sin. What foundation Bildad had for this opinion, derived from the life and character of the sons of Job, we have no means of ascertaining. The probability is, however, that he had learned in general that they had been cut off; and that, on the general principle which he maintained, that God deals with men in this life according to their character, he inferred that they must have been distinguished for wickedness. Men not unfrequently argue in this way when sudden calamity comes upon others.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Job 8:4. If thy children have sinned — I know thy children have been cut off by a terrible judgment; but was it not because by transgression they had filled up the measure of their iniquity?

And he have cast them away — Has sent them off, says the Targum, to the place of their transgression-to that punishment due to their sins.