Job 8-10: Bildad: "God Is Just, You Sinned, Job"

What can you do when God is silent and your friends are loud? As our Job 8 commentary opens, Bildad steps up to the city gate microphone, and he's not bringing comfort. He doubles down on the Retribution Principle: sin equals suffering and righteousness equals blessing. To Bildad, Job’s suffering is an open-and-shut case of guilt. He even makes the heartless claim Job’s children died as a penalty for their own sins. But as Job 8–10 reveals "dry theology" is no match for a broken heart. ...