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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?
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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 w...
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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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CHILDREN. sons.
FOR. by the hand of; by their own act.
TRANSGRESSION. rebellion. Hebrew. _pash'a._ App-44....
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IF THY CHILDREN HAVE SINNED— _Though thy children have sinned. Job
8:6. Surely now he would awake for thee_] _Surely now he would make
bare his arm on thy behalf; he would make the beauty of thy
right...
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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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_IF THY CHILDREN HAVE SINNED AGAINST HIM, AND HE HAVE CAST THEM AWAY
FOR THEIR TRANSGRESSION;_
If - rather, "Since THY CHILDREN HAVE SINNED AGAINST HIM, and (since)
He have cast them away for (Hebrew...
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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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AND HE HAVE CAST, etc.] RV 'he delivered them into the hand of their
transgression,' i.e. abandoned them to the consequences of their sins.
This conclusion about the death of Job's sons was quite unju...
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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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AND HE HAVE CAST THEM AWAY. — Literally, _then he sent them away._
By means of their transgression; it became their destruction....
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אִם ־בָּנֶ֥יךָ חָֽטְאוּ ־לֹ֑ו וַֽ֝
יְשַׁלְּחֵ֗ם...
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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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If thy children have sinned against him, and he have cast them away
for their (b) transgression;
(b) That is, has rewarded them according to their iniquity, meaning
that Job should be warned by the e...
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_Iniquity, and suffered them to perish. (Calmet)_...
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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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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...
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If thy children have sinned against him, and he have cast them away
for their transgression;
Ver. 4. _If thy children have sinned against him_] As what man is he
that liveth and sinneth not? But Bild...
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_If thy children have sinned against him_ If thou wast innocent, thy
children, upon whom a great part of these calamities fell, might be
guilty; and therefore God is not unrighteous in these proceedin...
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AN ADMONITION TO JOB TO REPENT OF HIS SIN...
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If thy children have sinned against him, namely, in celebrating their
feasts and banquets, 1:5-18, AND HE HAVE CAST THEM AWAY FOR THEIR
TRANSGRESSION, abandoning them to the destructive hand of their...
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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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FOR THEIR TRANSGRESSION:
_ Heb._ in the hand of their transgression...
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"With thoughtless cruelty, Bildad referred to Job's dead children in
an effort to demonstrate his point. Bildad thus hinted that Job's
sacrifices for his children (Job 1:5) had no expiatory value; the...
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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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What though thou wast in a great measure innocent, thy children, upon
whom a great part of these calamities fell, might be guilty of great
sins; and therefore God is not unrighteous in these proceedin...
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Job 8:4 sons H1121 sinned H2398 (H8804) away H7971 (H8762) for H3027
transgression H6588
he have cast -...
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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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JOB—NOTE ON JOB 8:1 Bildad is the second friend to “comfort”
Job.
⇐ ⇔...
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JOB—NOTE ON JOB 8:4 After the rhetorical questions in v. Job 8:3,
Bildad presents two conditional statements (“if... then”) to Job
that are meant to represent the consequences of God’s justice. The
fi...
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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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Genesis 13:13; Genesis 19:13; Job 1:18; Job 1:19; Job 1:5;...
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If — If thou wast innocent, thy children, upon whom a great part of
these calamities fell, might be guilty; and therefore God is not
unrighteous in these proceedings....