Bildad speaks to Job.
Job 8: 3-4
Does God pervert justice? Does the Almighty pervert what is right? When
your children sinned against him, he gave them over to the penalty of
their sin.
Bildad says that Job's children died
because of their sins. Remember, Job sacrificed burnt offerings for his
children, just in case they had sinned. Their sins were covered by Job's
obedience.
Whether Bildad knows it or not, his
words in Job 8:6-7 are very prophetic. God does restore Job, more
prosperous than before. Take a peek at the end of Job and see.
Job 8:6-7
if you are pure and upright, even now he will rouse himself on your behalf
and restore you to your rightful place. Your beginnings will seem humble, so
prosperous will your future be.
Later on in Chapter 8, Bildad says that
Job is as disconnected from God as an uprooted plant. He mentions
forgetting God is like relying on a spider's web, when the web is leaned on it
gives way. It's as if they are trusting in earthly things. Trusting
in earthly things can be compared to spider's webs. Earthly things give way
when we lean on them. Only God can sustain!
Isn’t it fascinating that Job knew about
the constellations??? Even the Southern Cross constellation in the Southern
Hemisphere.
Job 9:9
He is the Maker of the Bear and Orion, the Pleiades and the constellations
of the south.
Some of the questions Job had in chapter
7, he answers for himself in chapter 9. Even at our very best we still sin and
must plead for mercy.
Isaiah 64:6
All of us have become like one who is unclean, and all our righteous
acts are like filthy rags; we all shrivel up like a leaf, and like the
wind our sins sweep us away.
Job sees God as unapproachable.
While God does live in unapproachable light, we as Believers in Jesus
have access to God through our belief in Jesus and the indwellment of the Holy
Spirit.
There is an incredible verse (among many,
many others) hidden away in Job. He is speaking of God when he says the
following.
Job 9:32-34
"He is not a man like me that I might answer him, that we might
confront each other in court. If only there were someone to arbitrate
between us, to lay his hand upon us both, someone to remove God's rod from me,
so that his terror would frighten me no more.
Praise God, there is someone to arbitrate
between us! Job is asking for someone we already have. It’s Jesus!
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