Job 8:6

Though thy beginning was small,.... When, he first set out in the world; and which though it greatly increased, and he was the greatest man in all the east, yet Bildad suggests, should he behave well,…

If thou wert pure and upright - There is something especially severe and caustic in this whole speech of Bildad. He first assumes that the children of Job were cut off for impiety, and then takes it…

Here, I. Bildad reproves Job for what he had said (Job 8:2), checks his passion, but perhaps (as is too common) with greater passion. We thought Job spoke a great deal of good sense and much to the…

if thouwert pure Or, if thou be pure, cf. subjunctive in ch. Job 11:15.

surely now he would awake Rather, surely now he will awake. The words, if thou wilt seek, Job 8:8, suggest the right point of…