Surely such are the dwellings of the wicked, and this is the place of him that knoweth not God.
(Job 7:22 , margin, "The dwelling-place of the wicked shall come to nought" - Hebrew, 'shall not be').
Remarks:
(1) The eternal and unchangeable laws of God's justice cannot be set aside, in order to give the sinner impunity in his wickedness. In vain shall the lost tear themselves in anger (Job 18:4) and impotent rage; God's righteousness stands immovable, as the Rock of ages. Sin will assuredly be men's ruin unless they repent. However brightly the light of the ungodly may shine now, the gloomy shades of death and hell are fast gathering round them (Job 18:5-6).
(2) The sinner is his own executioner; he is caught in his own net; the very scheme whereby he had promised himself security are the pitfalls wherein he causes himself to be entrapped (Job 18:8-10). Satan, the tempter, uses the sinner's own devices as the snares wherein to entangle him; and when once Satan has made his victim sinful as himself, he will also make him wretched as himself. (3) Alarms of conscience make the sinner's deathbed a scene of horrors (Job 18:11). Slowly, but surely, he is brought face to face before the King of Terrors, and his past confidences now prove of no avail. He and they perish together; and whereas the memory of the just is blessed, the name and remembrance of the wicked shall rot (Job 18:17; Proverbs 10:7). Sin brings blight upon the sinner's whole family and connection, as well as upon himself; so much so that even the worldly, when they see God's just judgement shall be constrained to acknowledge, "Verily, there is a reward for the righteous; verily, He is a God that judgeth in the earth" (Psalms 58:11).
(4) The truths stated by Bildad are weighty and important, but their application to Job was not justified by candour or charity. When we engage in disputation, we should beware of being betrayed by the heat of argument into unjust denunciations of others, as though they were the enemies of God and especially doomed to His wrath, because they do not agree with our particular opinions. We should rather try, while not sacrificing truth to charity, to hope the best of them, and gently lead them to what seems to us the better way.