Answered. He directs his attack against Job's desiring to plead before God, and gives a wrong statement of his request, which he also attempts to refute, by urging the same inconclusive arguments as before. (Calmet) --- Blind and obstinate disputers still repeat the same objections; (Worthington) as Protestants do against the Catholic doctrines, which have been so often and so ably defended. (Haydock) read more
Bildad Rebukes Job Again. Since Job had asserted his innocence in such emphatic terms, Bildad believed it incumbent upon him to reprove him, chiefly in two propositions, namely, that man cannot argue with God, and that no man is pure before God. He thereby changed the issue; for the original point of the friends had been that Job's affliction proved him guilty of some special transgression in the sight of God. v. 1. Then answered Bildad, the Shuhite, and said, speaking for the last time, v.... read more
II. Bildad and Job: Chap. 25–26A.—Bildad: Again setting forth the contrast between God’s exaltation and human impotenceJob 25:01. Man cannot argue with GodJob 25:2-41 Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said:2 Dominion and fear are with Him,He maketh peace in His high places.3 Is there any number of His armies?and upon whom doth not His light arise?4 How then can man be justified with God?or how can he be clean that is born of a woman?2. Man is not pure before God: Job... read more
How Can Man Be Just before God? Job 25:1-6 Bildad’s closing speech adds little to the controversy. He suggests simply that Job’s vindications of himself do not imply that he is righteous before God, and, acting upon the philosophy of the time, Bildad prefers to consider that Job is guilty of unrealized sins rather than believe that God has permitted suffering to come to Him unmerited. There are some unanswerable questions in this paragraph-suggestions full of helpfulness. God’s armies are... read more
The answer of Bildad is characterized by its brevity, and by the fact that he did not set himself to argue the matter with Job. It is a manifest weakening in the controversy on the side of the friends. Bildad was not prepared to discuss the general truth of what had been said, but he made it perfectly evident that he had no sympathy with the personal application which Job suggested. He contented himself with a general statement, first, of the greatness and government of God; and, second, of... read more
Job 25-27. offer a difficult critical problem. “ The phenomena which excite attention are these: ( a) Bildad’ s speech is unusually short; ( b) Job’ s reply contains a section ( Job 26:5-2 Chronicles :) very like Bildad’ s speech; ( c) Zophar fails to speak; ( d) ch. 27 has a title prefixed, which has no real parallel elsewhere in the middle of a speech belonging to the original poem (ch. 29 forming no real exception); ( e) the greater part of ch. 27 so completely contradicts Job’ s views as... read more
Bildad answered, not to that which Job spoke last, but to that which stuck most in Bildad’s mind, and which seemed most reprovable in all his discourses, to wit, his bold censure of God’s proceedings with him, and his avowed and oft-repeated desire of disputing the matter with him. read more
THIRD SPEECH OF BILDAD THE SHUHITEHis speech either a very abortive one, or it includes, as some think, the following chapter from the fifth verse to the end, the first four verses of that chapter probably belonging to the next one, but, by the mistake of transcribers, placed at the beginning of this.The object of the speech to show Job’s presumption in thinking himself righteous before God, and in wishing to debate his cause with Him as an innocent sufferer.With this view he sets forth the... read more
Chapter 25Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said [concerning God], Dominion and fear are with him, he makes peace in his high places. Is there any number of his armies? and upon whom doth not his light arise? How then can man be justified with God? ( Job 25:1-4 )Job, you've been trying to justify yourself before God. But how can man be justified with God?I would like to suggest to you that man cannot be justified with God apart from the work of Jesus Christ. It's not possible that a just... read more
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Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Job 25:1-3
(1) ¶ Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said, (2) Dominion and fear are with him, he maketh peace in his high places. (3) Is there any number of his armies? and upon whom doth not his light arise? These verses form a short but striking description of GOD'S sovereignty. Bildad, it should seem, was grown tired of the controversy, and therefore, instead of contending any longer with Job, he contents himself in joining with Job, in following up what the man of Uz had keen dwelling upon, of the... read more