“If he destroy him from his place, then it shall deny him, saying, I have not seen thee.”
Bildad asserts that if they are destroyed from their place, it will deny having seen them, suggesting that the destruction of the wicked is so complete that it leaves no trace. The irony is that the very place that seemed to nourish them denies their existence once they are gone. The obliteration is total and comprehensive.
Church Fathers on Job 8:18
If He destroy him from his place, then He shall deny him, saying, I have not known thee. The hypocrite is ‘destroyed from his place,’ when he is parted from the applause of the present life, by death intervening. But the interior Witness ‘denieth’ him, thus destroyed, and asserts that He knows him not, in that in justly condemning the life of the pretender, ‘Truth’ knows him not, nor recognises the good works he has done, in that he never put them forth in a right purpose of…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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