Job 8:20 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²⁰Behold, God will not cast away a perfect man, neither will he help the evil doers:

Job 8:20 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Job 4:7
Remember, I pray thee, who ever perished, being innocent? or where were the righteous cut off?
Psalms 37:37
Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright: for the end of that man is peace.
Psalms 37:24
Though he fall, he shall not be utterly cast down: for the LORD upholdeth him with his hand.
Isaiah 45:1
Thus saith the LORD to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have holden, to subdue nations before him; and I will loose the loins of kings, to open before him the two leaved gates; and the gates shall not be shut;
Job 21:30
That the wicked is reserved to the day of destruction? they shall be brought forth to the day of wrath.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 20-22)

Bildad here, in the close of his discourse, sums up what he has to say in a few words, setting before Job life and death, the blessing and the curse, assuring him that as he was so he should fare, and therefore they might conclude that as he fared so he was. 1. On the one hand, if he were a perfect upright man, God would not cast him away, Job 8:20. Though now he seemed forsaken of God, he would y…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 20)

20. Bildad regards Job as a righteous man, who has fallen into sin. God will not cast away a perfect man--(or godly man, such as Job was), if he will only repent. Those alone who persevere in sin God will not help (Hebrew, “take by the hand,” Psa 73:23; Is 41:13; 42:6) when fallen.