1. Job 8-10

2. Bildad Next man to attack Job Name means “son of contention”
He is a traditionalist
Rests on the past (Job 8:8)‏
Predicts future based on the past

3. Bildad Evolutionist is traditionalist Many do not recognize that
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Bildad
Evolutionist is traditionalist
Many do not recognize that
Rests on the past
Assumes premises
Cannot prove them

4. Bildad Only two origin theories Creation or speculation
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Bildad
Only two origin theories
Creation or speculation
Evolution is speculation
Digs up bones
Tries to date & classify them
Then relate to development of man

5. Bildad But with evolution, who knows? Book of Job raises this question
Job 38:4: “Where were you?”
Bildad will assert the past
“When I was young ...”
“We've been doing it this way”

6. Bildad Has a lot of old sayings, proverbs
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Bildad
Has a lot of old sayings, proverbs
Still offers nothing new at all
More crude than Eliphaz
Breaks in on Job
Hurts him a great deal
Supposed to be his friend

7. Bildad Job 8:1-2 Gets in some good ones
Real repartee; real rap session
Brilliant men, by the way
Puts knife in, twists it a little

8. Bildad Job 8:1-2 Says listening to Job like wind
Actually, Bildad & co. are wind
Good for laugh at Job's expense
Perhaps crowd around by this time

9. Bildad Job 8:3 Says Job getting what was coming Must be some sin
Getting exactly what you deserve

10. Bildad Job 8:4 This statement really hurts Job
Says children died due to their sins
We know this is not the reason
God let us in on the real reason
Back at the beginning of the book

11. Bildad Job 8:5-6 Says if Job were lily white
God would hear his prayers
God would restore him
Must be something wrong w Job
Says Job is not pure & upright

12. Bildad Job 8:7 This is what will happen When all this is over
Job will increase
God will double what he had
But where is Job now?

13. Bildad Job 8:8 Appeals to evolution Says everything works per set laws
References several of those laws
Old sayings

14. Bildad Job 8:9 True statement But Bildad doesn't think he is
He thinks that Job is the one
Says Job knows nothing
But statement is true of Bildad too!

15. Bildad Job 8:9 Statement is true of evolutionists
Statement is true of you and me
Man is a Johnny-come-lately
Hasn't been around very long
God was around way before man

16. Bildad Job 8:10 Says that the past will teach us
While true, it is said out of context
Using past to determine future
Pure speculation

17. Bildad Job 8:10 Apostle Paul doesn't dwell on past
He presses onward! (Php 3:4)‏

18. Bildad Job 8:11-12 Tries to get very scientific
Any third grader knows the answer
Must water plants to grow them
Duh!

19. Bildad Job 8:13 KJV: godless -> hypocrite
So accuses Job of being hypocrite!
Says Job putting up a front
Must be hiding something
Just reveal it to God & be done

20. Bildad Job 8:13 Does Job have anything to hide?
Is this rubbing salt into a wound?

21. Bildad Job 8:14-19 Accuses Job of infirm foundation
Leaning on a spider's web
Says won't hold you during trouble
Duh!
But was Job leaning on thin air?

22. Bildad Job 8:20 Now, wait a minute! Is that actually true?
God has certainly helped me
Although I have been an evildoer
He saved me!

23. Bildad Job 8:20 When I was enemy, He saved me! Rom 5:8; Lk 6:35
And where is the perfect man?
None righteous; Rom 3:10

24. Job 8-10
Bildad
Job 8:20
“Although what Bildad says is true, it is not true when you pour into it the test tube of life and pour the acid of experience upon it.”

25. Bildad Job 8:21-22 Says Job come to nothing
Because he is a great sinner
Not very helpful to Job!
Advice out of context
God is kind, merciful to sinners

26. Bildad Job 8:21-22 Yes, sin has consequences
But some sinners are prosperous!
Rain falls on just & unjust
God saves his former enemies
You ... and me!

27. Bildad Job 8:21-22 So Bildad does not know God He does not know Job
Neither does he know himself
He thinks past determines future
Evolutionist; traditionalist

28. Job 8-10
Future
Job 8:21-22
Aren't you glad that the past does not have to determine the future?!!
When feeling defeated, read the end of the Bible! GOD WINS!!!

29. Job 8-10
Future
Jer 29:11
For I know the plans I have for you," declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.

30. Future Jer 29:11 Spoken to a people in exile
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Future
Jer 29:11
Spoken to a people in exile
Glimpse into a bright future
Even during demoralizing times

31. Job 8-10
Future
Rev 20:10
And the devil, who deceived them, was thrown into the lake of burning sulfur, where the beast and the false prophet had been thrown. They will be tormented day and night for ever and ever.

32. Job 8-10
Future
Rev 21:3
And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, "Now the dwelling of God is with men, and he will live with them. They will be his people, and God himself will be with them and be their God.

33. Job 8-10
Future
Rev 21:4
He will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away."

34. Job 8-10
Future
Job 8:21-22
Aren't you glad that the past does not have to determine the future?!!
When feeling defeated, read the end of the Bible! GOD WINS!!!

35. Job 8-10
References
J. Vernon McGee Commentary