Adam Clarke's Bible Commentary Verse 3. Is there any number of his armies? ] He has troops innumerable; he can serve himself of all his creatures; every thing may be a means of help or destruction, according to his Divine will. When he purposes to save, none can destroy; and when he is determined to destroy, none can save. It is vain to trust in his creatures against himself.
Upon whom doth not his light arise? ] That is, his providence rules over all; he is universal Lord; he causes his sun to arise on the evil and the good, and sends his rain on the just and unjust.
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 _________________________________________________
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