Adam Clarke's Bible Commentary Verse 2. Dominion and fear are with him ] God is an absolute sovereign; his fear is on all the hosts of heaven; and by his sovereignty he establishes and preserves order in the heavens, and among all the inhabitants of the eternal world: how canst thou, therefore, dare to appeal to him, or desire to appear before him?
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 המשׁל4910 ופחד6343 עמו5973 עשׂה6213 שׁלום7965 במרומיו׃4791
