Job 25:1

_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., terror-inspiring power. PEACE IN HIS HIGH PLACES - implying that His power is such on high as to quell all opposition, not merely there, but on earth also. The Holy Spirit here shadowed forth Gospel truths (Colossians 1:20); Ephesians 1:10). Verse 3. ARMIES - angels and stars ...

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 before God; that even the heavenly_ _bodies cannot be reputed pure in his sight; much less man, who_ _is naturally weak and sinful_, 4-6. NOTES ON CHAP. XXV Verse Job 25:1. _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 not again return to the attack. Bildad has little to say, and that little is very little to the point. He makes a few asserti

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 avoids the subject, and limits himself to briefly touching two old and well-worn topics—the might of God (verses 2, 3) and the universal sinfulness of men. On neither of these two points does he throw any fresh light. He avoids, however, the reckless charges of Eliphaz (Job 22:5) as well as the coarse menaces of Zophar (Job 20:5). JOB 25:1,...

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 succeed, and die in peace and quietness, as other men; either because he was convinced of the truth of what he had said, or else because he thought he was an obstinate man, and that it was best to let him alone, and say no more to him, since there was no likelihood of working any conviction on him; wherefore he only tries to possess his mind of the greatness and majesty of God, in order to deter him from applying to God in a judicial way, and expecting redress and relief from him; AND SAID; as follows....

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 open his lips again. Nevertheless Bildad's final word is of great force and beauty, with deep meaning. He gives a picture of what God is. _ With Him dominion is reverence;_ He maketh peace in His high places. The number of His hosts who can count? And upon whom doth not His light arise? How pregnant with meaning these four sentences! Job 25:4. And what is man, man the creature of the dust, the earthworm.

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 Bildad's speech; (_c_) Zophar fails to speak; (_d_) ch. 27 has a title prefixed, which has no real parallel elsewhere in the middle of a speech belonging to the original poem (ch. 29 forming no real exception); (_e_) the greater part of ch. 27 so completely contradicts Job's views as elsewhere expressed, that it seems very hard to believe that it can have formed part of this speech (Peake). Here what is a very usual rearrangement will be adopted. We shall take Job 25 and Job 26:5 as Bildad's speech, Job 26:1 and...

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 last weak effort against Job is made by Bildad. The three friends, finding themselves quite baffled in their purpose, which was, to make Job confess himself guilty of some enormous crimes, which they rashly supposed to have drawn this heavy judgment upon him; instead of ingenuously owning themselves in the wrong, which, if one may guess from the usual issue of disputes, is one of the hardest things in the world, this grave antagonist satisfies himself with an evasive answer to this purpose: namely, that no man, strictly speaking, can be justified before God; man being at best a frail and fallible creature, and God a Being of infinite purity and perfection: which is an arg

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 peace in his high places. 3 Is there any number of his armies? And upon whom doth not his light arise? 4 How then can man be Just with God? Or how can he be clean that is born of a woman? COMMENT 25:1-4 JOB 25:1As with the preceding chapter 24, there are a considerable number of textual problems in the following three Chapter s.[268] The Chapter s 25-27 contain the third speech of Bildad, the eighth response of Job, and the third speech of Zophar. One cannot but be str

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....