John Trapp on Job 8:4

Verſ. 4. If thy children have ſinned againſt him] As what man is he that liveth and ſinneth not? But Bildad meant that Jobs children had hainouſly ſinned, had been grievous ſinners againſt their own ſouls (as afterwards were Core and his complices) had not ſinned common ſins, and therefore died not common deaths: indeed they died early and ſuddenly, and eating and drinking (wherein there might be ſome exceſs) and before ſacrifice offered for them, as formerly: all this was ſad, and moved Job more then any thing elſe. But did it therefore follow that God haſt caſt them away? &c.

And he have caſt them away for their tranſgreſſion] Or, And he have expelled or abandoned them into the hand (ſo the Hebrew hath it elegantly) of their transgreſſions or rebellions, Pagnin. as ſo may executioners. Some render it thus, He hath driven them out of the world for their transgreſſion. The Chaldee Paraphraſt goeth further, interpreting hand here for place. If God have ſent them, ſaith he, into the place of their wickedneſs, that is, into hell prepared for the wicked. Now ſurely, ſaith Lavater, Inhumaniſſimus fuit Bildad, qui iſta calamitoſiſſimo objicere non dubitabat: Bildad was a moſt unmerciful man, who doubted not to lay theſe things in the diſh of him that was before ſo heavily afflicted, and to heap more load upon him who was ready to ſink under his burden: but he did it, ſay ſome, of a good intent, to bring Job to a ſenſe of his ſin, and to put him in hope of appeaſing Gods wrath, who had yet ſpared his life that he might make his peace, and not ſuddenly ſlay him as he had done them: and therefore he aſſureth him in the following verſes, as Eliphaz had done before, that all things ſhall go well with him if he repent. Albeit thy children have ſinned, &c. yet