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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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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...
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CLOTHED WITH SHAME. Compare Psalms 35:26; Psalms 109:29; Psalms
132:18.
DWELLING PLACE. tent.
WICKED. lawless. Hebrew. _rasha'._ App-44....
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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...
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In his concluding words Bildad puts himself and his friends right with
Job, and desires to put Job right with himself and God. By referring
to Job's haters he intimates that he and his friends are non...
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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,...
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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...
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_THEY THAT HATE THEE SHALL BE CLOTHED WITH SHAME; AND THE DWELLING
PLACE OF THE WICKED SHALL COME TO NOUGHT._ THEY THAT HATE THEE SHALL
BE CLOTHED ... The haters of Job are the wicked. They shall be c...
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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 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...
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שֹׂנְאֶ֥יךָ יִלְבְּשׁוּ ־בֹ֑שֶׁת וְ
אֹ֖הֶל רְשָׁעִ֣ים...
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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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(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...
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REFLECTIONS
WHILE we look on and behold the exercises of Job still heightening,
and distresses, in the unkindness of his friends, coming from a
quarter from whence he was looking for relief and consol...
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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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THEY THAT HATE THEE SHALL BE CLOTHED WITH SHAME,.... The Chaldeans and
Sabeans, who had plundered him of his substance, when they should see
him restored to his former prosperity, beyond all hope and...
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They that hate thee shall be clothed with shame; and the dwelling
place of the wicked shall come to nought.
Ver. 22. _They that hate thee shall be clothed with shame_] It shall
cover their faces, Psa...
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_They that hate thee_ That rejoice in thy calamities; _shall be
clothed with shame_ That is, shall be wholly covered with it, shall be
utterly confounded, when they shall observe thee, whom they have...
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They that hate thee shall be clothed with shame, Jeremiah 3:25; Psalms
35:26; Psalms 109:29; AND THE DWELLING PLACE OF THE WICKED SHALL COME
TO NAUGHT, literally, "and the tent of the wicked, it is no...
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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...
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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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SHALL COME TO NOUGHT...
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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...
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THEY THAT HATE THEE, that rejoice in thy calamities, shall be wholly
covered with shame, shall be utterly confounded, when they shall
observe thee, whom they have despised and insulted over, to be so...
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Job 8:22 hate H8130 (H8802) clothed H3847 (H8799) shame H1322 dwelling
H168 wicked H7563 nothing H369
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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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_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...
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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 8:20 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....
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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 Peter 5:5; Job 7:21; Job 8:18; Psalms 109:29; Psalms 132:18;...