Job 8:3

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Job 8:1-7

Job 8:1-Judges : . 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 rewards the righteous and punishes the wicked. His whole idea of fortune and misfortune is even more mechanical than that of Eliphaz. The idea that God remains an unchangeable factor, and the relation of man to Him only changes, comes out if possible even more clearly in... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Job 8:3

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 unjustly or falsely with men, because he hath no need of it, nor temptation to it, being self-sufficient for his own happiness, and being able by his own invincible power to do whatsoever pleaseth him; unless men will impudently say that God doth falsely for mere love to falsehood, without any necessity of... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Job 8:1-22

BILDAD’S FIRST SPEECHBildad 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 as his predecessor—(1) God is righteous—punishing the bad, and rewarding those who seek and serve Him; (2) Job exhorted to prove the latter by sincere repentance and prayer; (3) The prosperity of the wicked short-lived, and sure to end in ruin: the end of the righteous certain joy and triumph.I.... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Job 8:1-22

Chapter 8So 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 Almighty pervert justice? If your children have sinned against him, and he has cast them away for their transgression ( Job 8:2-4 );And okay now, he's getting on my kids. They've sinned and God wiped them out. And now you going to blame God?If you would seek unto God before, and make your... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Job 8:1-22

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 papyrus,” the leaf of which was used as paper among the Egyptians; and the tallipot leaf is used in a similar manner in India. Job 8:15 . He shall lean upon his house. The LXX, “Though he moat his house; i.e. with a ditch or drain, and parapet; yet it shall not stand.” This reading relieves... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Job 8:1-3

Job 8:1-3Then answered Bildad the Shuhite.Bildad’s unsympathetic speechBildad 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 misery and happiness. It is a very simple solution. It is the doctrine that untimely death, sickness, adversity in every form, are alike signs of God’s anger; that they visit mankind with unerring discrimination; are all what we call “judgments”; are penalties, i.e., or chastisements, meant... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Job 8:3

Job 8:3Doth the Almighty pervert justice?Judgment and justiceThese two words may be taken as expressing one and the same thing. If we distinguish them, judgment may serve to express God’s righteous procedure in punishing the wicked; and justice His procedure in vindicating the righteous when they are oppressed. Job is unjustly charged, and accordingly he vindicates himself.1. Job’s maintaining of his own righteousness is not a quarrelling of God’s righteousness, who afflicted him. Job held both... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Job 8:3

Job 8:3 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 righteous (so the Hebrews expound it). Why, no; neither did Job ever say such a thing; only he had pathetically set forth the greatness of his pain, and the unkindness of his friends, and wished to die rather than to endure it. Now this was construed for blasphemy, or little less; and Bildad is very... read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Job 8:3

God: Job 4:17, Job 9:2, Job 10:3, Job 19:7, Job 34:5, Job 34:12, Job 34:17-Psalms :, Job 40:8, Genesis 18:25, Deuteronomy 32:4, 2 Chronicles 19:7, Ezekiel 18:25, Ezekiel 33:17, Ezekiel 33:20, Psalms 89:14, Daniel 9:14, Romans 2:5, Romans 3:4-Joshua : Almighty: Job 21:15, Job 21:20, Job 34:10-2 Kings :, Job 35:13, Job 40:2, Psalms 99:4, Revelation 15:3, Revelation 16:7 Reciprocal: Genesis 18:23 - Wilt Job 4:11 - the stout Job 13:4 - ye are forgers Job 21:27 - I know Job 22:20 - our substance... read more

John Wesley

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Job 8:3

Doth God pervert judgment? or doth the Almighty pervert justice?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 or falsely with men, because he hath no need of it, nor temptation to it, being self-sufficient for his own happiness, and being able by his own invincible power to do whatsoever pleaseth him.Pervert — Judge unrighteously? No, this is... read more

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Job 8:1-7

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Job 8:3

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Job 8:1-22

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Job 8:1-22

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Job 8:1-22

The Biblical Illustrator - Job 8:1-3

The Biblical Illustrator - Job 8:3

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Job 8:3

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Job 8:3

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Job 8:3

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