Job 8:4
When your children sinned against Him, He gave them over to their rebellion.
BSB
ASV
If thy children have sinned against him, And he hath delivered them into the hand of their transgression;
KJV
If thy children have sinned against him, and he have cast them away for their transgression;
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.
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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…
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So now, take seven bulls and seven rams, go to My servant Job, and sacrifice a burnt offering for yourselves. Then My servant Job will pray for you, for I will accept his prayer…
Then Noah built an altar to the LORD. And taking from every kind of clean animal and clean bird, he offered burnt offerings on the altar.
“In peace,” he replied. “I have come to sacrifice to the LORD. Consecrate yourselves and come with me to the sacrifice.” Then he consecrated Jesse and his sons and invited them to the sacrifice.
So Jacob told his household and all who were with him, “Get rid of the foreign gods that are among you. Purify yourselves and change your garments.
Pray in the Spirit at all times, with every kind of prayer and petition. To this end, stay alert with all perseverance in your prayers for all the saints.
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Job 5:4His sons are far from safety, crushed in court without a defender.
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Blessed is the man whose quiver is full of them. He will not be put to shame when he confronts the enemies at the gate.
The roots beneath him dry up, and the branches above him wither away.
Salvation is far from the wicked because they do not seek Your statutes.