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Job
Chapter
08
{Chapters
4-14: The First Debate}
{Chapters
8-10: Debate with Bildad -
Bildad Implies Job is Getting What He Deserves - Self-Righteous
Arrogance}
1~~Then
answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said, 2~~
"How
long will you say such things?
Your
words {dabar}s are a blustering wind.
{Note: It is amazing how quickly old old friends will turn on you when things go bad and they are in self-righteousness arrogance.}
3~~Does
God/'El pervert justice?
{requires a negative response - but Bildad is assuming that any
suffering is punitive and that is not true -
there is suffering for advancement.}
Does the Almighty pervert what is right?
{Bildad
now Judges Job's Entire Family}
4~~When
your children sinned {chata'} against Him,
He gave them over to the penalty of their sin {pesha`}.
{Note: Bildad is very cruel and insensitive. In his self-righteousness, he thinks he must be right and therefore Job and his family 'all got what they deserved' as punishment for their sins.}
{Altar
Call from Bildad}
5-6~~If
you {Job} would look to God/'El,
and
if you would plead with the Almighty; 6~~
if
you will become pure and upright;
even
now He {God} would arouse Himself on your behalf,
and
restore you to your rightful place.
7~~Though
your beginnings will seem humble,
so
prosperous will your future be.
{Note: Implies Job is not 'right with God'. So, if you get right with God all will be well. But the truth is, God uses suffering to test/prove the doctrine in the souls of all mature believers - testing for advancement.}
8~~Ask
the former generations, please/'I pray you',
and
find out for yourself what their fathers learned.
9~~For
we were born only yesterday and know nothing,
because
our days upon earth are but a shadow.
10~~Will
they not instruct you and tell you?
Will
they not bring forth words from their understanding/ heart/'right lobe'?
{Illustration
- from Papyrus}
11~~
Can the rush grow up without mire?
Can the flag grow without water?
12``While
it is yet in his greenness, and not cut down,
it
wither before any other herb.
13-14~~Such
is the destiny/paths of all who forget God/'El
{description of a reversionist}.
Therefore,
the hope of the God-less/'El-less shall perish . . . 14~~
whose
confidence is fragile,
and
whose trust is a spider's web.
{Note: Confidence in something false is fragile and about as supportive to you as a spider's web would be.}
15~~He
leans on his web, but it gives way.
He
clings to it but it does not hold.
16``He
is green before the sun,
and
his branch shoot forth in his garden.
17``His
roots are wrapped about the heap,
and
sees/perceives the place of stones.
18``If
he destroy him from his place,
then
it shall deny him, saying,
'I
have not seen you all.'
19``Behold,
this is the joy of his way,
and
out of the earth shall others grow.
20~~Surely God/'El does not reject a blameless man?
Nor {will He} strengthen the hand of evil doers.
21``Till
He fills your mouth with laughing,
and
your lips with rejoicing.
22``They who hate you all shall be clothed with shame.
And the dwelling place of the wicked shall come to nothing.
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