Job 8:20 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Behold, God will not cast away a perfect man, neither will he helpd the evil doers: ”

• Job 8:20 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  Behold, God will not cast away a perfect man - On the meaning of the word perfect, see the note at Job 1:1 . The sentiment of Bildad, or the inference which he draws from the whole argument is,...

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• Job 8:20 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  Bildad has warned Job of the fate of the impious. Now he returns to the other half of his doctrine also, and sums up his whole position in Job 8:20 . God can neither reject the blameless, nor uphold...

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• Job 8:20 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  help . take by the hand.

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• Job 8:20 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  Behold, God will not cast away a perfect man , neither will he help the evil doers: Behold, God will not cast away a perfect man - This is another of the maxims of the ancients, which Bildad produce...

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• Job 8:20 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  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 laug...

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• Job 8:20 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  Behold, God will not cast away a perfect man, neither will he help the evil doers: Behold, God will not cast away a perfect man. Bildad regards Job, not as a hardened sinner, but as a righteo...

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• Job 8:20 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  The First Speech of Bildad Holding the same doctrine about sin and suffering as Eliphaz, Bildad supports the views of his friend by an appeal to the teaching of antiquity. He shows less sympathy a...

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• Job 8:20 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  XIX. VENTURESOME THEOLOGY Job 8:1-22 BILDAD SPEAKS THE first attempt to meet Job has been made by one who relies on his own experience and takes pleasure in recounting the things which he has...

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• Job 8:20 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  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...

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• Job 8:20 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  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...

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• Job 8:20 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  (10) Shall not they teach thee, and tell thee, and utter words out of their heart? (11) Can the rush grow up without mire? can the flag grow without water? (12) Whilst it is yet in his greenness, and...

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• Job 8:20 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  Behold, God will not cast away a perfect [man] ,.... A sincere, upright, good man; one that is truly gracious; who, though he is not "perfect" in himself, yet in Christ; and though not with respect...

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• Job 8:20 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  Behold, God will not cast away a perfect [man], neither will he help the evil doers: Ver. 20. Behold, God will not cast away a perfect man ] Epilogus sermonis Bildad. This is the epilogue or clo...

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• Job 8:20 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Behold, God will not cast away a perfect man God, who will not help the evil doer, will not cast away a good man, though he may be cast down: yet it may be he will not be lifted up in this world; a...

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• Job 8:20 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  BILDAD'S CRUEL RESPONSE (vv.1-22) Bildad's response to Job was much more brief than that of Eliphaz, but following along the same line. He did not begin in the conciliatory way that Eliphaz did,...

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• Job 8:20 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

        20 Behold, God will not cast away a perfect man, neither will he help the evil doers:   21 Till he fill thy mouth with laughing, and thy lips with rejoicing.   22 They that hate thee shall...

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• Job 8:20 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  Heb. God will not despise or reject , i.e. he will not deny them his help, as appears by the opposite and following branch of the verse; he will not suffer them to be utterly lost. Help , i.e. deli...

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• Job 8:20 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  BILDAD’S FIRST SPEECH Bildad 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 addre...

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• Job 8:20 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  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, “th...

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• Job 8:20 - The Biblical Illustrator

  Behold, God will not cast away a perfect man. Moral character determines a man’s destiny I. The real condition of the good. By the real condition we mean the relation of the soul, not to the ci...

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• Job 8:20 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION Job 8:1 Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said . Bildad the Shuhite has the second place in the passage where Job's friends are first mentioned ( Job 2:11 ), and occupies th...

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• Job 8:20 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  An Accusation of Wickedness against Job. Bildad was convinced that Job was, in some way, guilty of some special great transgression against the Lord, that his present affliction was the punishment...

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• Job 8:20 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Isaiah 45:1 ; Job 4:7 ; Job 9:22 ; Psalms 37:24 ; Psalms 37:37 ; Psalms 94:14

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• Job 8:20 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  Behold — God who will not help the evildoer, will not cast away a good man, tho he may be cast down. Yet it may be, he will not be lifted up in this world: and therefore Bildad could not infer, tha...

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