Job 8:7

James Gray's Concise Bible Commentary - Job 8:1-22

FIRST SERIES OF THE DEBATE The first series of the debate may be outlined as follows: 1. With Eliphaz (chaps. 4-7) a. Speech of Eliphaz (chaps. 4-5) b. Reply of (chaps. 6-7) 2. With Bildad (chaps. 8-10) a. Speech of Bildad (chap. 8) b. Reply of Job (chaps. 9-10) 3. With Zophar (chaps. 11-14) a. Speech of Zophar (chap. 11) b. Reply of Job (chaps. 12-14) It is thought the debate may have occupied several days, by which supposition some of the difficulties of the book are removed. In the... read more

Joseph Parker

The People's Bible by Joseph Parker - Job 8:1-22

The First Speech of Bildad Job 8:0 Considering the whole case, we must never forget the exact condition in which the three comforters found Job himself. This is not a merely speculative discussion, all the men being upon equal terms, and all enjoying the luxury of intellectual vitality, and the delight of talking over subjects which have no practical bearing: one of the men is hardly alive. What was his condition? Children all dead, flocks destroyed, camels carried away, servants slain by the... read more

Joseph Parker

The People's Bible by Joseph Parker - Job 8:7

"Handfuls of Purpose" For All Gleaners "Though thy beginning was small, yet thy latter end should greatly increase." Job 8:7 So life is not to be judged by its beginning, but by its end. This is true, scientifically as well as morally. We need not doubt that the beginning of all life was small: but who can deny that the development of life has been sure, profound, and beneficent? Man may have had the lowliest possible origin, yet he brings with him a seal higher than human; the very token of... read more

Robert Hawker

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Job 8:1-9

(1) ¶ 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 the Almighty pervert justice? (4) If thy children have sinned against him, and he have cast them away for their transgression; (5) If thou wouldest seek unto God betimes, and make thy supplication to the Almighty; (6) If thou wert pure and upright; surely now he would awake for thee, and make the... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on the Bible - Job 8:1-7

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 rebuked, as if they were evil-doers. Even in disputes on religion, it is too common to treat others with sharpness, and their arguments with contempt. Bildad's discourse shows that he had not a favourable opinion of Job's character. Job owned that God did not pervert judgment; yet it did not... read more

Frank Binford Hole

F. B. Hole's Old and New Testament Commentary - Job 8:1-99

Job 8 - 14. As Job closed his reply to Eliphaz, he made the confession, "I have sinned," realizing that God is the Observer of mankind. We might have expected that Bildad, as he began to speak, would have made some allusion to this, but he does not appear to do so. Instead he accused him of uttering words like the blowing of a strong wind, and, to maintain the rightness of all God's judgments, he insinuated that Job's children must have been cast away as the penalty of their transgression.... read more

Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann - Job 8:1-7

An Admonition to Job to Repent of his Sin v. 1. Then answered Bildad, the Shuhite, 2:11, and said, v. 2. How long wilt thou speak these things? An exclamation of impatience over the blasphemous impertinence which he read in Job's words. And how long shall the words of thy mouth be like a strong wind? He made this comparison both on account of the emptiness and bluster of the wind and on account of its destructive tendency. v. 3. Doth God pervert judgment? Or doth the Almighty pervert... read more

Johann Peter Lange

Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures: Critical, Doctrinal and Homiletical - Job 8:1-22

II. Bildad and Job: Chaps. 8–10A.—Bildad’s rebuke: Man must not charge God with unrighteousness as Job has done, for God never does that which is unjust:Job 8:01. Censure of Job on account of his unjust accusation against God:Job 8:2-71 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 the Almighty pervert justice?4 If thy children have sinned... read more

Frederick Brotherton Meyer

F.B. Meyer's 'Through the Bible' Commentary - Job 8:1-22

God Will not Cast Away Job 8:1-22 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 concealed. He feels that God could not pervert judgment, and that the sudden destruction of Job’s children proved that they had transgressed. Job 8:11-13 are probably quoted from an old poem, embodying the sententious observation of some older generation, which compared the ungodly to the rapid... read more

G. Campbell Morgan

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible - Job 8:1-22

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 made no reference to Job's attack on his friends, but proceeded to make one statement of the righteousness of God from two standpoints. He first protested against the idea which Job's complaint had seemed to advance, that God's dealings are ever unjust with the righteous (1-7). It would be better... read more

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