Excerpt from Discourses Upon Existence Attributes of God, Vol. 2 of 2
Bildad had in the foregoing chapter entertained Job with a discourse on the dominion and power of God, and the purity of his righteousness, whence he argues an impossibility of the justification of man in his presence, who is no better than a worm. Job in this chapter acknowledges the greatness of God"s power, and descants more largely upon it than Bildad had done; but doth preface it with a kind of ironical speech, as if he had not acted a friendly part, or spake little to the purpose, or the matter in hand. The subject of Job"s discourse was the worldly happiness of the wicked, and the calamities of the godly; and Bildad reads him a lecture of the extent of God"s dominion, the number of his armies, and the unspotted rectitude of his nature, in comparison of which the purest creatures are foul and crooked. Job, therefore, from ver. 1 to 4, taxes him in a kind of scoffing manner, that he had not touched the point, but rambled from the subject in hand, and had not applied a salve proper to his sore: "How hast thou helped him that is without power? How savest thou the arm of him that hath no strength?" ver 2; your discourse is so impertinent, that it will neither strengthen a weak person, nor instruct a simple one.
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