“So are the paths of all that forget God; and the hypocrite’s hope shall perish:”
Bildad states that such are the paths of all who forget God and that the hope of the godless will perish, articulating the conviction that those who turn from God are destined for destruction. The connection between forgetting God and inevitable destruction becomes absolute. The assertion that the hope of the ungodly will perish provides the foundation for the interpretation of Job's suffering.
Church Fathers on Job 8:13
Whilst it is yet in his greenness, and not cut down, it withereth before any other herb. So are the paths of all that forget God, and the hypocrite's hope shall perish. So that by the name of ‘a rush’ or ‘a flag,’ he denotes the life of the hypocrite, which has an appearance of greenness, but has no fruit of usefulness for the services of man, which continuing dry in barrenness of practice, is green with only the colour of sanctity alone. But neither does a rush grow without…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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