JOB 8<\/b><\/p>\n
\u201cIf you would earnestly seek God and make your supplication to the Almighty \u2026\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n
(Job 8:5).<\/i><\/p>\n
Bildad\u2019s response is similar to Eliphaz\u2019s in that much of what he says is generally true: God\u2019s providences are never unjust, the wicked are punished by a righteous God, and hypocrites will receive their due while the righteous will be restored. However, like Eliphaz, Bildad wrongly assumed that Job should be counted among the wicked because God would never cause a righteous man to suffer. Bildad ignores Job\u2019s cry for compassion and simply asserts that Job should repent of his sin.<\/p>\n
He also harshly admonishes Job for accusing God of perverting justice\u2014something Job did not do. Job was guilty of questioning God\u2019s wisdom, but he had not yet accused God of being unjust. He maintains from the very beginning that God was just in allowing his children to die. \u201cIt is true that we and our children have sinned against God, and we ought to justify Him in all He brings upon us and ours,\u201d Henry wrote, \u201cbut extraordinary afflictions are not always the punishment of extraordinary sins, but sometimes the trial of extraordinary graces; and in our judgment of another\u2019s case (unless the contrary appears), we ought to take the more favorable side, as our Savior directs, Luke 13:2\u20134.\u201d This is simply one more instance of how Job\u2019s friends misunderstood his situation.<\/p>\n
Secondly, Bildad\u2019s counsel concerning the hypocrite is correct. It is true, as we learn from Scripture that \u201cThe hope of the hypocrite shall perish, whose confidence shall be cut off, and whose trust is a spider\u2019s web. He leans on his house, but it does not stand\u201d (8:13\u201315). Job was guilty of crying out against God for not ending his life, and he failed to rely on God\u2019s strength in his overwhelming suffering. But this was not sufficient evidence to cast him among the hypocrites as Bildad was so willing to do.<\/p>\n
God brings Bildad\u2019s own words back to haunt him when, later, He restores to Job everything he had lost. Bildad said that \u201cGod will not cast away the blameless.\u201d This is true. While the blameless may suffer for awhile, God will not forsake them forever. So it will be with Job. God will not forsake him. This, however, is unforeseen to Bildad who assumes that Job is a hypocrite and maintains that unless he repent of that sin, he will be cut off forever.<\/p>\n
CORAM DEO<\/b><\/p>\n
Jeremiah 20\u201322<\/p>\n
2 Timothy 1<\/p>\n
WEEKEND<\/b><\/p>\n
Jeremiah 23\u201326<\/p>\n
2 Timothy 2\u20133<\/p>\n
Go through chapter 8 and mark all of Bildad\u2019s statements that are generally true. How does he apply these \u201ctruths\u201d to Job? What does he say that is blatantly wrong? Do you err in the application of truth? Ask a friend or your spouse if they discern any way in which you take a fundamental truth and wrongly apply it.<\/p>\n
For further study: 1 Sam. 15 \u2022 Matt. 12:1\u201314 \u2022 Matt. 23<\/i><\/p>\n
WEEKEND<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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