“ Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said, ”
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 26:5-14 ) very li...
answered . concluded. See note on Job 4:1 . Bildad. See note on Job 2:11 .
Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said, Bildad the Shuhite - This is the last attack on Job; the others felt themselves foiled, though they had not humility enough to acknowledge it, but would no...
Bildad observes, that the dominion of God is supreme; that his armies are innumerable; and that no man can be just, compared with God. Before Christ 1645. Job 25:1 . Then answered Bildad...
Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said, He tries to show Job's rashness ( Job 23:3 ), by arguments borrowed from Eliphaz ( Job 15:15 ), with which cf. Job 11:17 . Verse 2. Power and terro...
Bildad's Last Speech He ignores Job's questionings respecting the justice of God's rule, but declares His perfection and majesty, and the imperfection of all created things, repeating the theme of...
XXV. (1) Then answered Bildad. — Bildad attempts no formal reply to Job’s statements, he merely falls back upon the position twice assumed by Eliphaz before ( Job 4:17-21 ; Job 15:14-16 ), and...
XXI. THE DOMINION AND THE BRIGHTNESS Job 25:1-6 BILDAD SPEAKS THE argument of the last chapter proceeded entirely on the general aspect of the question whether the evil are punished in propor...
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...
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 friend...
CONTENTS This chapter is but short, yet it contains precious truths. It forms the reply of Bildad to what Job had before said. It is not at all in reproof, but only an account of God's holiness, and...
Then answered Bildad the Shuhite ,.... Not to what Job had just now delivered, in order to disprove that, that men, guilty of the grossest crimes, often go unpunished in this life, and prosper and s...
Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said, Ver. 1. Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said ] A pithy and ponderous speech he here maketh, though little to the purpose, for he quite digresseth...
Then answered Bildad Who makes the last weak effort against Job; and being unable to deny the truth of his assertions, but at the same time unwilling to give up the argument, shelters himself behin...
BILDAD'S REPLY THE GREATNESS OF GOD (vv.1-3) The brevity of Bildad's reply is evidence that he had no answer to Job's predicament. He confines himself rather to fundamental facts that were impor...
God Exalted and Man Abased. B. C. 1520. 1 Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said, ...
JOB CHAPTER 25 Bildad's answer: God's majesty and purity is such as that man cannot be justified before God: before him the heavenly lights lose their lustre and purity. Bildad answered, not to t...
THIRD SPEECH OF BILDAD THE SHUHITE His 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 chap...
Job 25:4 . How can man be justified with God? Bildad asks a question which he himself could not answer; but we have the proper answer from the living oracle, Job 42:8 . “Take seven bullocks, and...
Dominion and fear are with Him. Ideas of God and man I. Most exalted ideas of god. He speaks of Him-- 1. As the head of all authority. “Dominion and fear are with Him.” 2. As the maintain...
EXPOSITION Job 25:1-18 Far from accepting Job's challenge, and grappling with the difficulty involved in the frequent, if not universal, prosperity of the wicked. Bildad, in his weak reply,...
Then answered Bildad, the Shuhite, and said, speaking for the last time,
Job 2:11
Answered — Not to that which Job spake last, but to that which seemed most reprovable in all his discourses; his censure of God's proceedings with him, and his desire of disputing the matter with h...