Behold — God who will not help the evildoer, will not cast away a good man, tho he may be cast down. Yet it may be, he will not be lifted up in this world: and therefore Bildad could not infer, that if Job was not restored to temporal prosperity, he was not a good man. Let us judge nothing before the time, but wait 'till the secrets of all hearts are revealed, and the present difficulties of providence solved, to universal and everlasting satisfaction.
Verse Job 8:20. _BEHOLD, GOD WILL NOT CAST AWAY A PERFECT_ MAN] This is another of the _maxims_ of the _ancients_, which Bildad produces: "As sure as he will punish and root out the wicked, so surely...
BEHOLD, GOD WILL NOT CAST AWAY A PERFECT MAN - On the meaning of the word perfect, see the note at Job 1:1. The sentiment of Bildad, or the inference which he draws from the whole argument is, that Go...
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)...
Bildad has warned Job of the fate of the impious. Now he returns to the other half of his doctrine also, and sums up his whole position in Job 8:20. God can neither reject the blameless, nor uphold th...
HELP. take by the hand....
Finally Bildad repeats his general principle and augurs from the one side of it a happy and brilliant future for Job. _cast away a perfect man_ This word "perfect" is the title given to Job by the Aut...
BEHOLD, GOD WILL NOT CAST AWAY— _Lo! as God doth not cast away the perfect man, so neither doth he strengthen the hands of the wicked;_ Job 8:21. _Therefore he will again fill thy mouth with laughter,...
3. If Job is upright, God will restore him. (Job 8:20-22) TEXT 8:20-22 20 BEHOLD, GOD WILL NOT CAST AWAY A PERFECT MAN, Neither will he uphold the evil-doers. 21 He will yet fill thy mouth with la...
_BEHOLD, GOD WILL NOT CAST AWAY A PERFECT MAN, NEITHER WILL HE HELP THE EVIL DOERS:_ Behold, God will not cast away a perfect man. Bildad regards Job, not as a hardened sinner, but as a righteous man...
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...
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...
Bildad was sure that God is fair. So he was sure that God would help Job. Bildad’s advice was simple. Job should do the right things. God would rescue Job. But Bildad’s answer was simply words. It was...
הֶן ־אֵ֭ל לֹ֣א יִמְאַס ־תָּ֑ם וְ לֹֽא
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...
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...
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...
(10) Shall not they teach thee, and tell thee, and utter words out of their heart? (11) Can the rush grow up without mire? can the flag grow without water? (12) Whilst it is yet in his greenness, and...
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...
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...
BEHOLD, GOD WILL NOT CAST AWAY A PERFECT [MAN],.... A sincere, upright, good man; one that is truly gracious; who, though he is not "perfect" in himself, yet in Christ; and though not with respect to...
Behold, God will not cast away a perfect [man], neither will he help the evil doers: Ver. 20. _Behold, God will not cast away a perfect man_] _Epilogus sermonis Bildad._ This is the epilogue or close...
_Behold, God will not cast away a perfect man_ God, who will not help the evil doer, will not cast away a good man, though he may be cast down: yet it may be he will not be lifted up in this world; an...
An Accusation of Wickedness against Job. Bildad was convinced that Job was, in some way, guilty of some special great transgression against the Lord, that his present affliction was the punishment fo...
Behold, God will not cast away a perfect man, He will not despise the pious man, the inference once more being that Job could not have been really pious, NEITHER WILL HE HELP THE EVIL-DOERS, He will n...
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...
HELP THE EVIL DOERS: _ Heb._ take the ungodly by the hand...
Once again the claim that God never allows the righteous to suffer and another call for Job to repent. Ironically, Bildad will be one of Job's enemies who was later shamed (Job 8:22; Job 42:7-9)....
20-22 Bildad here assures Job, that as he was so he should fare; therefore they concluded, that as he fared so he was. God will not cast away an upright man; he may be cast down for a time, but he sh...
Heb. _God will not despise or reject_, i.e. he will not deny them his help, as appears by the opposite and following branch of the verse; he will not suffer them to be utterly lost. _Help_, i.e. deliv...
Job 8:20 God H410 away H3988 (H8799) blameless H8535 uphold H2388 (H8686) H3027 evildoers H7489 ...
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...
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...
_Behold, God will not cast away a perfect man._ MORAL CHARACTER DETERMINES A MAN’S DESTINY I. The real condition of the good. By the real condition we mean the relation of the soul, not to the circu...
JOB—NOTE ON JOB 8:1 Bildad is the second friend to “comfort” Job. ⇐ ⇔...
JOB—NOTE ON JOB 8:20 In his conclusion, Bildad asserts two things: if Job were a BLAMELESS MAN, God would not have rejected him; the TENT OF THE WICKED will not stand for long....
_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...
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...
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...
Isaiah 45:1; Job 4:7; Job 9:22; Psalms 37:24; Psalms 37:37;...