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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....
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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 thi...
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CHAPTER 8 BILDAD'S ADDRESS
_ 1. How long, Job? (Job 8:1)_
2. Enquire of the former age (Job 8:8)
3. God's dealing with the wicked and the righteous (Job 8:11)...
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OPENING OF BILDAD'S FIRST SPEECH. The two younger friends, says Duhm,
make a less favourable impression than Eliphaz. Bildad's great point
is the discriminating rectitude of God, who unfailingly rewar...
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DOTH... ? Figure of speech _Erotesis._ App-6.
GOD. Hebrew. _El._ App-4.
THE ALMIGHTY. Hebrew. _Shaddai._ App-4....
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The discriminating rectitude of God
2. Before coming to his principle and by way of introducing it Bildad
expresses his wonder that Job should allow himself to speak such
things as his discourse conta...
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_doth God pervert_ Or, _will God pervert … will the Almighty, &c_.?
This is what Bildad means by his reference to _these things_. Job's
speech put briefly is an assertion that God perverts justice. Go...
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D. THE GREAT ABSENCE: EMPATHY AND SYMPATHYBILDAD Job 8:1-22
1. God is just and has not been unrighteous. (Job 8:1-7) (A rebuke of
Job.)
TEXT 8:1-7
8 THEN ANSWERED BILDAD THE SHUHITE, AND SAID,
2 H...
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_DOTH GOD PERVERT JUDGMENT? OR DOTH THE ALMIGHTY PERVERT JUSTICE?_
Doth God pervert. The repetition of pervert gives an emphasis galling
to Job. "Neither will the Almighty pervert judgment" (Job 34:1...
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THE FIRST SPEECH OF BILDAD
Holding the same doctrine about sin and suffering as Eliphaz, Bildad
supports the views of his friend by an appeal to the teaching of
antiquity. He shows less sympathy and...
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Can there be injustice with God as Job seems to think is possible?
Bildad thinks the All-powerful must in the nature of things be
righteous. Job does not deny the omnipotence, but he questions the
rig...
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JOB, A SERVANT OF GOD
Job
_KEITH SIMONS_
Words in boxes (except for words in brackets) are from the Bible.
This commentary has been through Advanced Checking.
CHAPTER 8
BILDAD’S FIRST SPEECH
TH...
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Verse 3 is right. We all should agree with this verse. But verse 3
leads to an awful idea in verse 4. These are terrible words to say to
a man whose children have recently died. We might expect Job to...
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הַ֭ אֵל יְעַוֵּ֣ת מִשְׁפָּ֑ט וְ אִם
־שַׁ֝דַּ֗
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XIX.
VENTURESOME THEOLOGY
Job 8:1
BILDAD SPEAKS
THE first attempt to meet Job has been made by one who relies on his
own experience and takes pleasure in recounting the things which he
has seen. Bi...
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GOD WILL NOT CAST AWAY
Job 8:1
Bildad now takes up the argument, appealing to the experience of
former generations to show that special suffering, like Job's,
indicated special sin, however deeply c...
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In answer to Job, the next of his friends, Bildad, took up the
argument. There is greater directness in his speech than in that of
Eliphaz. By comparison it lacks in courtesy, but gains in force. He
m...
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(1) В¶ Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, 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 th...
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Bildad's Lecture
I. INTRODUCTION
A. Last week in Job's reply to Eliphaz - we saw a small glimpse of the
Job's physical condition:
1. The worms, the sores that would break open in the sleepless nigh...
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THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 4 THROUGH 31.
As to the friends of Job, they do not call for any extended remarks.
They urge the doctrine that God's earthly government is a full measure
and...
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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...
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Doth God pervert judgment? or doth the Almighty pervert justice?
Ver. 3. _Doth God prevent judgment?_] By not punishing the wicked; or
doth the Almighty prevent justice? by not rewarding the righteou...
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_Doth God_ Hebrew, אל, _Eel_, the mighty God, as this word
signifies; _pervert judgment?_ Judge unrighteously? No: this is
inconsistent with God's nature, Which is essentially and necessarily
just, an...
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Doth God pervert judgment? Or doth the Almighty pervert justice? Would
Job in his sober mind accuse God of injustice, either in principle or
in act?...
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AN ADMONITION TO JOB TO REPENT OF HIS SIN...
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BILDAD'S CRUEL RESPONSE
(vv.1-22)
Bildad's response to Job was much more brief than that of Eliphaz, but
following along the same line. He did not begin in the conciliatory
way that Eliphaz did, how...
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Bildad reasons that to complain, as Job is doing, is to accuse God of
being unjust. Seeing that God never distorts justice, He certainly
would not be punishing Job for nothing. He reasons that if Job...
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1-7 Job spake much to the purpose; but Bildad, like an eager, angry
disputant, turns it all off with this, How long wilt thou speak these
things? Men's meaning is not taken aright, and then they are...
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GOD, Heb. _the mighty God_, as this word signifies; _the almighty or
all-sufficient God_, as the next name of God here implies. These names
are emphatically used, to prove that God cannot deal unjustl...
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Job 8:3 God H410 subvert H5791 (H8762) judgment H4941 Almighty H7706
pervert H5791 (H8762) justice H6664
God -
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CONTENTS: Bildad's theory of Job's affliction.
CHARACTERS: God, Bildad, Job.
CONCLUSION: It is not just or charitable to argue that merely because
one is in deep affliction, he is therefore a hypocr...
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Job 8:7. _Though thy beginning was small, yet thy latter end should be
great._ Many great patriarchs, like Jacob, had once but a small
beginning.
Job 8:11. _Can the rush grow._ The LXX read, “the pap...
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_Doth the Almighty pervert justice?_
JUDGMENT AND JUSTICE
These two words may be taken as expressing one and the same thing. If
we distinguish them, judgment may serve to express God’s righteous
pro...
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_Then answered Bildad the Shuhite._
BILDAD’S UNSYMPATHETIC SPEECH
Bildad grasps at once, as we say, the nettle. He is quite sure that he
has the key to the secret of the distribution among mankind of...
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JOB—NOTE ON JOB 8:1 Bildad is the second friend to “comfort”
Job.
⇐ ⇔...
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_BILDAD’S FIRST SPEECH_
Bildad less courteous and considerate of Job’s feelings than even
Eliphaz. Commences with an unfeeling reflection on his speech. Pursues
the same line of argument and address...
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EXPOSITION
JOB 8:1
THEN ANSWERED BILDAD THE SHUHITE, AND SAID. Bildad the Shuhite has the
second place in the passage where Job's friends are first mentioned
(Job 2:11), and occupies the same relativ...
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So Bildad, the next friend, speaks up and he said,
How long will you speak these things? how long will your words of your
mouth be like a [big, bag of] wind? Does God pervert judgment? or does
the Al...
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2 Chronicles 19:7; Daniel 9:14; Deuteronomy 32:4; Ezekiel 18:25;...
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Doth God — Heb. The might God, as this word signifies, the Almighty,
or All — sufficient God, as the next name of God implies. These
names are emphatically used, to prove that God cannot deal unjustly...