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Verse Job 8:5. _IF THOU WOULDEST SEEK UNTO GOD_] Though God has so
severely afflicted thee, and removed thy children by a terrible
judgment; yet if thou wilt now humble thyself before him, and implore...
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IF THOU WOULDEST SEEK UNTO GOD BETIMES - If thou wouldest do it now.
If even on the supposition that your sons have thus perished, and that
God has come out in judgment against your family, you would...
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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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Bildad saw in the fate of Job's children not only proof that they had
sinned but that their sin was deadly. He saw in Job's afflictions
proof equally decisive that he had sinned, but the fact that he...
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In opposition to Job's impious principle Bildad brings forward his
doctrine of the Divine rectitude on both its sides, the one
illustrated in the fate of Job's children (Job 8:4), the other, as he
hop...
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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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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 THOU WOULDEST SEEK UNTO GOD BETIMES, AND MAKE THY SUPPLICATION TO
THE ALMIGHTY;_
Seek unto God betimes - early. Make it the first add chief anxiety.
"They returned and inquired early after God....
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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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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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Bildad advised Job to pray. This is always good advice (1
Thessalonians 5:17). And Bildad was right to say that God helps
sincere people (Matthew 5:1-10). But this does not mean that every
Christian s...
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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 thou (c) wouldest seek unto God betimes, and make thy supplication
to the Almighty;
(c) That is, if you turn while God calls you to repentance....
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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 THOU WOULDEST SEEK UNTO GOD BETIMES,.... Here Bildad seems to think
more mildly, and speak more kindly to Job, that though he had sinned,
yet not in so gross a manner as his children, since he was...
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If thou wouldest seek unto God betimes, and make thy supplication to
the Almighty;
Ver. 5. _If thou wouldst seek unto God betimes_] If warned by the
evil end that befell thine unhappy children, thou...
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_If thou wouldest seek unto God_, &c. God hath spared thee, whom he
might justly have destroyed with thy children, and thou art yet
capable of obtaining his favour if thou wilt seek it. And, therefore...
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if thou wouldest seek unto God betimes, turning to Him with earnest,
humble entreaty, AND MAKE THY SUPPLICATION TO THE ALMIGHTY, with the
object of rendering God gracious to himself;...
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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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Notice the "if". If Job is as innocent as he claims, all he needed to
do was look to God and plead with Him. "Bildad was saying Job should
seek God, not expect God to search for him. Such. simple step...
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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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But, God hath spared thee, whom he might justly have destroyed with
thy children, and thou art yet capable of his favour, if thou seek for
it; and therefore cease from these causeless and unthankful
c...
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Job 8:5 seek H7836 (H8762) God H410 supplication H2603 (H8691)
Almighty H7706
thou wouldest - Job 5:8,...
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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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_If thou wouldst seek unto God betimes._
THE SINFUL MAN’S SEARCH
I. What is it that God requireth? A diligent and speedy search. It is
a work both in desire and labour to be joined with God. How mus...
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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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2 Chronicles 33:12; 2 Chronicles 33:13; Hebrews 3:7; Hebrews 3:8;...
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Betimes — Heb. rise early to seek him, if thou wouldest seek him
speedily, early and diligently....