Verš 3
Does God pervert judgment? or does the Almighty pervert justice?
Dt 32:4 - He is the Rock, his work is perfect: for all his ways are judgment: a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is he.
2Krn 19:7 - "Wherefore now let the fear of the LORD be upon you; take heed and do it: for there is no iniquity with the LORD our God, nor respect of persons, nor taking of gifts. "
Dan 9:14 - Therefore has the LORD watched upon the evil, and brought it upon us: for the LORD our God is righteous in all his works which he does: for we obeyed not his voice.
Verš 5
"If you would seek unto God early, and make your supplication to the Almighty; "
Jób 22:23 - If you return to the Almighty, you shall be built up, you shall put away iniquity far from your tabernacles.
Verš 8
For enquire, I pray you, of the former age, and prepare yourself to the search of their fathers:
Dt 4:32 - For ask now of the days that are past, which were before you, since the day that God created man upon the earth, and ask from the one side of heaven unto the other, whether there has been any such thing as this great thing is, or has been heard like it?
Verš 9
(For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth are a shadow:)
Gn 47:9 - And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years: few and evil have the days of the years of my life been, and have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.
1Krn 29:15 - For we are strangers before you, and sojourners, as were all our fathers: our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is none abiding.
Jób 7:5 - "My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; my skin is broken, and become loathsome. "
Ž 39:12 - "Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear unto my cry; hold not your peace at my tears: for I am a stranger with you, and a sojourner, as all my fathers were. "
Ž 144:4 - Man is like to vanity: his days are as a shadow that passes away.
Ž 102:11 - "My days are like a shadow that declines; and I am withered like grass. "
Ž 144:4 - Man is like to vanity: his days are as a shadow that passes away.
Verš 12
Whilst it is yet in his greenness, and not cut down, it withers before any other herb.
Ž 129:6 - Let them be as the grass upon the housetops, which withers before it grows up:
Jer 17:6 - "For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good comes; but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, in a salt land and not inhabited. "
Verš 13
"So are the paths of all that forget God; and the hypocrite's hope shall perish: "
Jób 11:20 - But the eyes of the wicked shall fail, and they shall not escape, and their hope shall be as the giving up of the spirit.
Jób 18:14 - His confidence shall be rooted out of his tabernacle, and it shall bring him to the king of terrors.
Ž 112:10 - "The wicked shall see it, and be grieved; he shall gnash with his teeth, and melt away: the desire of the wicked shall perish. "
Prís 10:28 - The hope of the righteous shall be gladness: but the expectation of the wicked shall perish.
Job 8,4-7 - Aj Bildad je toho presvedčenia, že hriešnik musí predčasne zomrieť, ako o tom svedčí aj príklad Jóbových detí. Hoci okrem nich aj Jób sa prehrešil.
Job 8,10 - "Oni", t. j. predošlé pokolenia, teda ľudia, čo pred nami kedysi žili.
Job 8,12 - Iní prekladajú verš 12 takto: "Kým sa zelenie, nekosia ju ešte. Však usychá skôr ako iná tráva."