“They that hate thee shall be clothed with shame; and the dwelling place of the wicked shall come to nought.”
Bildad concludes that those who hate Job will be clothed with shame and that the tent of the wicked will be no more, suggesting that Job's enemies and all who deny God's justice will be destroyed. The promise of the destruction of the wicked offers an implicit reassurance that justice will ultimately prevail. Yet Bildad's entire speech has left the fundamental question unanswered: why does the innocent suffer now?
Church Fathers on Job 8:22
They that hate thee shall be clothed with confusion. ‘Confusion clothes’ the enemies of the good in the final Judgment; for when they see before the eyes of their mind their past misdeeds running over in excess to them, their own guilt clothes them on every side, weighing them down. For they then bear the memory of their doings in punishment, who now, as though strangers to the faculty of reason, sin with hearts full of joy. There they see how greatly they should have…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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