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If you were pure and upright, Surely now he would awaken for you, And make the habitation of your righteousness prosperous.
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A Friend's Sharp 'If'
Commentators unanimously point out the harshness of Bildad's words. By saying, "If you were pure and upright," he is not offering a hypothetical scenario but making a thinly veiled accusation that Job is, in fact, not pure and upright. Scholars like Albert Barnes and Charles Ellicott describe this as a severe and unfaithful wound from a friend, using orthodox beliefs to condemn a person who is suffering.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
If you were pure and upright - There is something especially severe and caustic in this whole speech of Bildad. He first assumes th…
19th Century
Anglican
If thou wert pure and upright. —Of course, then, there is only one inference: you are not pure and upright. These are tru…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
If you were pure and upright By which he tacitly intimates that he was neither; though the character given of him is…
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Job spoke much to the purpose; but Bildad, like an eager, angry disputant, dismisses it all with this: "How long will you speak these things?" Peop…
13th Century
Catholic
In the discourse that Job just finished, he had responded to the speech of Eliphaz, showing that Eliphaz was profoundly mistaken. But Bildad of Shu…