Job 8:20-22

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 laughter,

And thy lips with shouting.

22 They that hate thee shall be clothed with shame;

And the tent of the wicked shall be no more.

COMMENT 8:20-22

Job 8:20Bildad now uses the very term by which God described JobJob 1:8; see also Job 1:1blameless. The A. V. has uphold and in Hebrew it means to grasp the hand or take the handIsaiah 42:6; Isaiah 51:18. Bildad's conclusion ends on an optimistic note. He has surely consoled Job.

Job 8:21God will redeem you, i.e., cause you to laugh, shout of jubilation, at your pain, once it has departed and wholeness returns.

Job 8:22Shame is conceived as the garment which the wicked wearPsalms 35:26; Psalms 109:29; Psalms 132:18. The last word in this verse, -enennu, is no more, echoes Job's last word, Job 7:21 -enenniam no more.