Job 8:21. Till he fill thy mouth with laughing What I have said in general of good men shall be made good to thee if thou art such: God will not forsake thee, nor desist from doing thee good, till he give thee abundant matter of rejoicing. read more
Job 8:22. 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 despised and insulted over, to be wonderfully restored to thy former or greater felicity. And the dwelling-place of the wicked Either, particularly, of thy enemies, who acted so unworthily and wickedly toward thee; or, more generally, of all wicked men; shall come to naught Having... read more
Bildad speaks (8:1-22)After rebuking Job for his wild words against God, Bildad tells him that God is always just. Completely lacking in sympathy, Bildad reminds Job that his children have died, and cruelly concludes that it must have been because of their sin (8:1-4). Job’s suffering must likewise be because of his sin. If, however, he is innocent, he need only pray humbly to God, and God will replace his suffering with greater blessing than he had before (5-7).For Bildad the traditional... read more
rejoicings = shouting for joy. read more
clothed with shame. Compare Psalms 35:26 ; Psalms 109:29 ; Psalms 132:18 . dwelling place = tent. wicked = lawless. Hebrew. rasha'. App-44 . read more
Job 8:20-22. 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, &c. Houbigant. This appears a kind of sarcastical conclusion; in which Bildad observes, that, though the hypocrite perishes in the manner above described, yet God will never reject the good man; and therefore, if Job were really such a one, which he appears greatly to doubt, he might... read more
21. Till—literally, "to the point that"; God's blessing on thee, when repentant, will go on increasing to the point that, or until, &c. read more
22. The haters of Job are the wicked. They shall be clothed with shame (Jeremiah 3:25; Psalms 35:26; Psalms 109:29), at the failure of their hope that Job would utterly perish, and because they, instead of him, come to naught. read more
3. Bildad’s first speech ch. 8Bildad agreed with Eliphaz that God was paying Job back for some sin he had committed, and he believed God would show Job mercy if he confessed that sin. However, Bildad built his conclusions on a slightly different foundation. Eliphaz argued from his own personal experience and observations (Job 4:8; Job 4:12-21). Bildad cited a more reliable authority: the experience of past generations that had come down through years of tradition (Job 8:8-10). He was a... read more
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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Job 8:22
They that hate thee shall be clothed with shame - When they see your returning prosperity, and the evidences of the divine favor. They will then be ashamed that they regarded you as a hypocrite, and that they reproached you in your trials.And the dwelling-place of the wicked ... - The wicked shall be destroyed, and his family shall pass away. That is, God will favor the righteous, but punish the wicked. This opinion the friends of Job maintain all along, and by this they urge him to forsake his... read more