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Bildad's Principle of Justice
Commentators explain that this verse concludes Bildad's speech by stating a principle of divine justice: God will eventually vindicate the righteous and shame their enemies. The wicked and their households, he argues, will be destroyed. This reflects the core, yet simplistic, theology of Job's friends.
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Albert Barnes
On Job 8:22
18th Century
Theologian
They that hate thee shall be clothed with shame – When they see your returning prosperity and the evidences of divine favor, they w…
John Gill
On Job 8:22
17th Century
Pastor
They that hate thee shall be clothed with shame
The Chaldeans and Sabeans, who had plundered him of his substance, w…
Matthew Henry
On Job 8:20–22
17th Century
Minister
Bildad here assures Job that as he was, so he would fare; therefore, they concluded that as he fared, so he was. God will not cast away an upright …