How can a man be in the right before God? Bildad's question in verse 4 is a direct quote of what Job had said in chapter 9. In chapter 9, this was Job's question!! (In fact, it was the sermon title of the sermon on Job's response to Bildad's first speech!)
And in chapter 9 Job had concluded that there was no way for a man to be vindicated before God. After all, if God is a just judge (and it would be blasphemy to say otherwise!), then every complaint against God must fail.
Eliphaz had said something like this in his first and second speeches (chapters 4 and 15). “What is man that he can be pure? Or he who is born of a woman, that he can be righteous? Behold, God puts no trust in his holy ones, and the heavens are not pure in his sight; how much less one who is abominable and corrupt, a man who drinks injustice like water.” (15:14-16)
Now Bildad starts down the same path.
How can man be in the right before God? How can man be justified – how can man be vindicated before God?! After all, Bildad says, Man is a maggot! The son of man is a worm!
The problem with Bildad is not that he calls man a worm!
The problem with Bildad is that he does not think that a man can be in the right before God...
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