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How then can man be just with God? Or how can he who is born of a woman be clean?
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A Repeated Argument
Commentators note that Bildad is not offering a new argument but is repeating a point that has already been made. Albert Barnes suggests Bildad does this because he feels defeated by Job's reasoning and is falling back on a general, undisputed truth rather than addressing Job's specific claims about his own situation.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
How then can man be justified with God? – see Job 4:17-18; Job 15:15–16. Instead of meeting the facts to which Job had a…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
How then can man be justified with God ? ] Since he sees all his ways and works, his secret as well as open sins; ei…
Bildad sets aside the question about the prosperity of wicked men, but shows the infinite distance that exists between God and man. He presents to …
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13th Century
Catholic
In his answer, Job had now refuted the two false accusations that Eliphaz had thrown at him in his previous response (Job 22:5, 12). He…
