Adam Clarke's Bible Commentary Verse 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 assertions, particularly in reference to what Job had said in the commencement of the preceding chapter, of his desire to appear before God, and have his case tried by him, as he had the utmost confidence that his innocence should be fully proved. For this Bildad reprehends Job with arguments which had been brought forth often in this controversy, and as repeatedly confuted, chap. iv. 18; xv. 14-16.
Matthew Henry Commentary
- Bildad shows that man cannot be justified before God.
--Bildad drops the question concerning the prosperity of wicked men but shows the infinite distance there is between God and man. He represents to Job some truths he had too much overlooked. Man' righteousness and holiness, at the best, are nothing in comparison with God's, Ps 89:6. As God is so great and glorious, how can man, who is guilty and impure, appear before him? We need to be born again of wate and of the Holy Ghost, and to be bathed again and again in the blood of Christ, that Fountain opened, Zec 13:1. We should be humbled as mean guilty, polluted creatures, and renounce self-dependence. But ou vileness will commend Christ's condescension and love; the riches of his mercy and the power of his grace will be magnified to all eternit by every sinner he redeems _________________________________________________
Original Hebrew ויען6030 בלדד1085 השׁחי7747 ויאמר׃559
