Morning Bible Study: Job 26:1-4

Job’s Reply to Bildad

26:1 Then Job answered:

2 How you have helped the powerless

and delivered the arm that is weak!

3 How you have counseled the unwise

and abundantly provided insight!

4 With whom did you speak these words?

Whose breath came out of your mouth?

Commentary

(the following is from Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary, 1706 -- www.christianity.com) 

"Job derided Bildad's answer; his words were a mixture of peevishness and self-preference. Bildad ought to have laid before Job the consolations, rather than the terrors of the Almighty. Christ knows how to speak what is proper for the weary, Isaiah 50:4; and his ministers should not grieve those whom God would not have made sad. 

We are often disappointed in our expectations from our friends who should comfort us; but the Comforter, the Holy Spirit, never mistakes, nor fails of his end."

Isaiah 50:4 The Lord God has given me

the tongue of those who are instructed

to know how to sustain the weary with a word.

He awakens me each morning;

he awakens my ear to listen like those being instructed.

Morning Bible Study: Job 25:1-6

Bildad Speaks
25:1 Then Bildad the Shuhite replied:
2 Dominion and dread belong to him,
the one who establishes harmony in his heights.
3 Can his troops be numbered?
Does his light not shine on everyone?
4 How can a human be justified before God?
How can one born of woman be pure?
5 If even the moon does not shine
and the stars are not pure in his sight,
6 how much less a human, who is a maggot,
a son of man [Or a mere mortal], who is a worm!

Commentary
(the following is from Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary, 1706 -- www.christianity.com)

"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's righteousness and holiness, at the best, are nothing in comparison with God's, Zechariah 13:1. 

We should be humbled as mean, guilty, polluted creatures, and renounce self-dependence. But our vileness will commend Christ's condescension and love; the riches of his mercy and the power of his grace will be magnified to all eternity by every sinner he redeems."

Zechariah 13:1 “On that day a fountain will be opened for the house of David and for the residents of Jerusalem, to wash away sin and impurity."