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 the first cycle.
CHAPTER XXV _Bildad, the Shuhite, in an irregular speech, shows that God's_ _dominion is supreme, his armies innumerable, and his providence_ _extended over all_, 1-3; _that man cannot be justified...
CHAPTER 25 THE THIRD ADDRESS OF BILDAD _ 1. What God is (Job 25:1)_ 2. What man is (Job 25:4) Job 25:1. Bildad's arguments are exhausted. He has reached the end of his resources and Zophar does not...
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) very like Bilda...
ANSWERED. concluded. See note on Job 4:1. BILDAD. See note on Job 2:11....
_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_— The l...
C. MANA LITTLE LOWER THAN THE ANGELS (Job 25:1-6) 1. Man cannot argue with God. (Job 25:1-4) TEXT 25:1-4 1 THEN ANSWERED BILDAD THE SHUHITE, AND SAID, 2 Dominion and fear are with him; He maketh...
_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 terror - i:e., t...
Bildad interrupted Job. Bildad was not pleased to hear about the troubles of poor people (chapter 24). He knew that God is very great. So Bildad thought that God controlled everything. Bildad also t...
JOB, A SERVANT OF GOD Job _KEITH SIMONS_ Words in boxes (except for words in brackets) are from the Bible. This commentary has been through Advanced Checking. CHAPTER 25 BILDAD INTERRUPTS GOD I...
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; Job 15:14), and twice allowed al...
וַ֭ יַּעַן בִּלְדַּ֥ד הַ שֻּׁחִ֗י וַ יֹּאמַֽר
XXI. THE DOMINION AND THE BRIGHTNESS Job 25:1 BILDAD SPEAKS THE argument of the last chapter proceeded entirely on the general aspect of the question whether the evil are punished in proportion to...
HOW CAN MAN BE JUST BEFORE GOD? Job 25:1 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 God, a...
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 friends...
_Answered. He directs his attack against Job's desiring to plead before God, and gives a wrong statement of his request, which he also attempts to refute, by urging the same inconclusive arguments as...
(1) В¶ Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said, (2) Dominion and fear are with him, he maketh peace in his high places. (3) Is there any number of his armies? and upon whom doth not his light arise...
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...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 4 THROUGH 31. As to the friends of Job, they do not call for any extended remarks. They urge the doctrine that God's earthly government is a full measure 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 succ...
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 fr...
_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 behind...
BILDAD REBUKES JOB AGAIN. Since Job had asserted his innocence in such emphatic terms, Bildad believed it incumbent upon him to reprove him, chiefly in two propositions, namely, that man cannot argue...
Then answered Bildad, the Shuhite, and said, speaking for the last time,...
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 important...
Bildad's brief speech of six verses reveals that he is running out of material!...
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 that w...
Job 25:1 Bildad H1085 Shuhite H7747 answered H6030 (H8799) said H559 (H8799)...
CONTENTS: Bildad's third discourse on Job's case. CHARACTERS: God, Bildad, Job. CONCLUSION: Man cannot, in himself, be justified before God for he has no merit of his own to extenuate his guilt. KE...
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 offer...
_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 maintainer of a...
JOB—NOTE ON JOB 25:1 Bildad’s words represent the final speech of the three friends. The friends have argued that their theological understanding and application represent God’s perspective. They have...
_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 chapter...
EXPOSITION JOB 25:1 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, entirely avo...
Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said [concerning God], Dominion and fear are with him, he makes peace in his high places. Is there any number of his armies? and upon whom doth not his light aris...
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 him....