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Job 8:3

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"Doth God pervert judgment? or doth the Almighty pervert justice?"

  • Job 8:3 - Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Job 8:3. _DOTH GOD PERVERT JUDGMENT!_] God afflicts thee; can he afflict thee for naught? As he is just, his judgment is just; and he could not inflict punishment unless there be a cause....

  • Job 8:3 - Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    DOTH GOD PERVERT JUDGMENT? - That is, Does God afflict people unjustly? Does he show favor to the evil, and punish the good? Bildad here undoubtedly refers to Job, and supposes that he had brought thi...

  • Job 8:3 - 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) Job 8:1. Bildad the Shuhite now speaks...

  • Job 8:3 - 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...

  • Job 8:3 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    DOTH... ? Figure of speech _Erotesis._ App-6. GOD. Hebrew. _El._ App-4. THE ALMIGHTY. Hebrew. _Shaddai._ App-4....

  • Job 8:3 - 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 cont...

  • Job 8:3 - 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...

  • Job 8:3 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _DOTH GOD PERVERT JUDGMENT? OR DOTH THE ALMIGHTY PERVERT JUSTICE?_ Doth God pervert. The repetition of pervert gives an emphasis galling to Job. "Neither will the Almighty pervert judgment" (Job 34:1...

  • Job 8:3 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Job 8:3 - 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...

  • Job 8:3 - ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    הַ֭ אֵל יְעַוֵּ֣ת מִשְׁפָּ֑ט וְ אִם ־שַׁ֝דַּ֗י יְעַוֵּֽת ־צֶֽדֶק׃...

  • Job 8:3 - 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...

  • Job 8:3 - 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...

  • Job 8:3 - 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...

  • Job 8:3 - George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Just. He begins with the same principle as Eliphaz, which nobody denied. But he does not reflect, that God may cause even the just to be afflicted, for their trial and improvement._...

  • Job 8:3 - 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...

  • Job 8:3 - 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...

  • Job 8:3 - 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...

  • Job 8:3 - John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    DOTH GOD PERVERT JUDGMENT?.... In his dealings with men in the way of his providence; no, he does not; here Bildad opposes himself to Job, who he thought had charged God with injustice in dealing with...

  • Job 8:3 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Doth God pervert judgment? or doth the Almighty pervert justice? Ver. 3. _Doth God prevent judgment?_] By not punishing the wicked; or doth the Almighty prevent justice? by not rewarding the righteou...

  • Job 8:3 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _Doth God_ Hebrew, אל, _Eel_, the mighty God, as this word signifies; _pervert judgment?_ Judge unrighteously? No: this is inconsistent with God's nature, Which is essentially and necessarily just, an...

  • Job 8:3 - Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

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

  • Job 8:3 - 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, ho...

  • Job 8:3 - Mark Dunagan Commentaries

    Bildad reasons that to complain, as Job is doing, is to accuse God of being unjust. Seeing that God never distorts justice, He certainly would not be punishing Job for nothing. He reasons that if Job...

  • Job 8:3 - 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...

  • Job 8:3 - Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    GOD, Heb. _the mighty God_, as this word signifies; _the almighty or all-sufficient God_, as the next name of God here implies. These names are emphatically used, to prove that God cannot deal unjustl...

  • Job 8:3 - Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Job 8:3 God H410 subvert H5791 (H8762) judgment H4941 Almighty H7706 pervert H5791 (H8762) justice H6664 God - Job 4:17, Job 9:2, Job 10:3, Job 19:7, Job 34:5,...

  • Job 8:3 - 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...

  • Job 8:3 - 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...

  • Job 8:3 - The Biblical Illustrator

    _Then answered Bildad the Shuhite._ BILDAD’S UNSYMPATHETIC SPEECH Bildad grasps at once, as we say, the nettle. He is quite sure that he has the key to the secret of the distribution among mankind of...

  • Job 8:3 - The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

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  • Job 8:3 - 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...

  • Job 8:3 - 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 relati...

  • Job 8:3 - 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...

  • Job 8:3 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    2 Chronicles 19:7; Daniel 9:14; Deuteronomy 32:4; Ezekiel 18:25; Ezekiel 33:17; Ezekiel 33:20; Genesis 18:25; Job 10:3; Job 19:7; Job 21:15;...

  • Job 8:3 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Doth God — Heb. The might God, as this word signifies, the Almighty, or All — sufficient God, as the next name of God implies. These names are emphatically used, to prove that God cannot deal unjustly...

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