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Those who hate you shall be clothed with shame. The tent of the wicked shall be no more."
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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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18th Century
Presbyterian
They that hate thee shall be clothed with shame – When they see your returning prosperity and the evidences of divine favor, they w…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
They that hate thee shall be clothed with shame The Chaldeans and Sabeans, who had plundered him of his substance, w…
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 …
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13th Century
Catholic
In the preceding verses, Bildad of Shuah defended the same opinion that Eliphaz the Temanite had proposed: that those who are divinely punished for…
