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Verse Job 8:6. _IF THOU WERT PURE AND UPRIGHT_] Concerning thy guilt
there can be no doubt; for if thou hadst been a holy man, and these
calamities had occurred through accident, or merely by the mali...
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IF THOU WERT PURE AND UPRIGHT - There is something especially severe
and caustic in this whole speech of Bildad. He first assumes that the
children of Job were cut off for impiety, and then takes it f...
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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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AWAKE FOR THEE: i.e. hear thy prayer. Compare Septuagint and Psalms
7:6; Psalms 35:23; Psalms 44:23.
HABITATION OF THY RIGHTEOUSNESS. thy righteous home. Figure of speech
_Antimereia_ (of Noun). App-...
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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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_if thou_wert _pure_ Or, _if thou be pure_, cf. subjunctive in ch. Job
11:15.
_surely now he would awake_ Rather, SURELY NOW HE WILL AWAKE. The
words, _if thou wilt seek, Job 8:5_, suggest the right p...
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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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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 WERT PURE AND UPRIGHT; SURELY NOW HE WOULD AWAKE FOR THEE,
AND MAKE THE HABITATION OF THY RIGHTEOUSNESS PROSPEROUS._
Wert - translate, 'If thou shalt be (henceforth) pure,' etc. (cf. the
rem...
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AWAKE FOR THEE] LXX reads 'hearken unto thee.'
8-22. Bildad appeals to the experience of antiquity to show that God
uproots the wicked, though they seem firmly established, and does not
cast away the...
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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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IF THOU WERT PURE AND UPRIGHT. — Of course, then, there is but one
inference: thou art not pure and upright. These are verily the wounds
of a friend which are not faithful. Bildad brings to the mainte...
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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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_Peaceable. Justice and peace shall kiss. (Haydock) --- Prosperity
will attend the righteous. (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 THOU [WERT] PURE AND UPRIGHT,.... By which he tacitly intimates
that he was neither; though the character given of him is, that he was
perfect and upright, feared God and eschewed evil, and which i...
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If thou [wert] pure and upright; surely now he would awake for thee,
and make the habitation of thy righteousness prosperous.
Ver. 6. _If thou wert pure and upright_] If thou didst lift up pure
hands...
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_If thou wert pure and upright_ That is, of a sincere heart and
blameless life toward God and men; _surely now he would awake for
thee_ יעיר, _jagnir, excitarit se_, he would _raise_, or _stir up_
him...
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AN ADMONITION TO JOB TO REPENT OF HIS SIN...
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if thou wert pure and upright, Bildad's inference being that this
could not be the case in the circumstances, SURELY NOW HE WOULD AWAKE
FOR THEE, arousing Himself for Job's protection and deliverance....
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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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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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If thou wert in truth what thou pretendest, and hast been thought by
others, to be, PURE AND UPRIGHT, i.e. of a sincere heart and blameless
life towards God and men. But God's severe dealing with thee...
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Job 8:6 pure H2134 upright H3477 awake H5782 (H8686) prosper H7999
(H8765) rightful H6664 place H5116
thou wert
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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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_Surely now He would awake for thee._
PRAYER AWAKING GOD
God sleeps, not in regard of the act, but the consequents of sleep.
Natural sleep is the binding or locking up of the senses. The eye and
ear...
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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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1 John 3:19; 1 Timothy 2:8; Isaiah 1:15; Isaiah 3:10; Isaiah 51:9;...
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Habitation — The concerns of thy house and family; which thou hast
got and managed with righteousness....