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Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Job 8:6

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 upright.

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See also Job 8:6 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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)...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    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-...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _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...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    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...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    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...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    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...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _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...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    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...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    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...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    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...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    אִם ־זַ֥ךְ וְ יָשָׁ֗ר אָ֥תָּה כִּי ־עַ֭תָּה

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    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...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    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...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Peaceable. Justice and peace shall kiss. (Haydock) --- Prosperity will attend the righteous. (Calmet)_...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    (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...

  • John Brown Commentaries Selected Books of the Bible

    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...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    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...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    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...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _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...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    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....

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    AN ADMONITION TO JOB TO REPENT OF HIS SIN...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    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...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Job 8:6 pure H2134 upright H3477 awake H5782 (H8686) prosper H7999 (H8765) rightful H6664 place H5116 thou wert

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _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...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _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...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    JOB—NOTE ON JOB 8:1 Bildad is the second friend to “comfort” Job. ⇐ ⇔...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    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...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    _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...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 John 3:19; 1 Timothy 2:8; Isaiah 1:15; Isaiah 3:10; Isaiah 51:9;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Habitation — The concerns of thy house and family; which thou hast got and managed with righteousness....

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