Job 8:6 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ If thou wert pure and upright; surely now he would awake for thee, and make the habitation of thy righteousness prosperous. ”

• Job 8:6 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  If thou wert pure and upright - There is something especially severe and caustic in this whole speech of Bildad. He first assumes that the children of Job were cut off for impiety, and then takes...

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• Job 8:6 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  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 re...

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• Job 8:6 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  awake for thee: i.e. hear thy prayer. Compare Septuagint and Psalms 7:6 ; Psalms 35:23 ; Psalms 44:23 . habitation of thy righteousness . thy righteous home. Figure of speech Antimereia (of...

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• Job 8:6 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  If thou wert pure and upright; surely now he would awake for thee, and make the habitation of thy righteousness prosperous. If thou wert pure and upright - Concerning thy guilt there can be no doub...

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• Job 8:6 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  If thou wert pure and upright; surely now he would awake for thee, and make the habitation of thy righteousness prosperous. Wert - translate, 'If thou shalt be (henceforth) pure,' etc. (cf. t...

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• Job 8:6 - 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 8:6 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  If thou wert pure and upright. — Of course, then, there is but one inference: thou art not pure and upright. These are verily the wounds of a friend which are not faithful. Bildad brings to the mai...

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• Job 8:6 - 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 8:6 - 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 8:6 - 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 8:6 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  (1) В¶ 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 t...

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• Job 8:6 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  If thou [wert] pure and upright ,.... By which he tacitly intimates that he was neither; though the character given of him is, that he was perfect and upright, feared God and eschewed evil, and whic...

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• Job 8:6 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  If thou [wert] pure and upright; surely now he would awake for thee, and make the habitation of thy righteousness prosperous. Ver. 6. If thou wert pure and upright ] If thou didst lift up pure han...

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• Job 8:6 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  If thou wert pure and upright That is, of a sincere heart and blameless life toward God and men; surely now he would awake for thee יעיר, jagnir, excitarit se , he would raise , or stir up hi...

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• Job 8:6 - 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 8:6 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  The Address of Bildad. B. C. 1520.       1 Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,   2 How...

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• Job 8:6 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  If thou wert in truth what thou pretendest, and hast been thought by others, to be, pure and upright, i.e. of a sincere heart and blameless life towards God and men. But God's severe dealing with t...

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• Job 8:6 - 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 8:6 - 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 8:6 - The Biblical Illustrator

  If thou wouldst seek unto God betimes. The sinful man’s search I. What is it that God requireth? A diligent and speedy search. It is a work both in desire and labour to be joined with God. How...

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• Job 8:6 - 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 8:6 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  An Admonition to Job to Repent of his Sin

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• Job 8:6 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 John 3:19-22 ; 1 Timothy 2:8 ; Isaiah 1:15 ; Isaiah 3:10 ; Isaiah 51:9 ; Job 1:8 ; Job 16:17 ; Job 21:14 ; Job 21:15 ; Job 22:23-30 ; Job 4:6 ; Job 4:7 ; Proverbs 15:8 ; Psalms 26:5 ;...

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• Job 8:6 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  Habitation — The concerns of thy house and family; which thou hast got and managed with righteousness.

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