Job 8:22
in Job 8Your enemies will be clothed in shame, and the tent of the wicked will be no more.”
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
They that hate thee shall be clothed with shame; And the tent of the wicked shall be no more.
KJV
They that hate thee shall be clothed with shame; and the dwelling place of the wicked shall come to nought.
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This verse in Job 8
Commentary
9 notes on this verseA commentator
Albert Barnes1798–1870
Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)
They that hate thee shall be clothed with shame - When they see your returning prosperity, and the evidences of the divine favor. They will then be ashamed that they regarded you as a hypocrite, and that they reproached you in your trials. And the dwelling-place of the wicked ... - The wicked shall be destroyed, and his family shall pass away. That is, God will favor the righteous, but punish the wicked. This opinion the friends of Job maintain all along, and by this they urge him to forsake his sins, repent, and return to God.
This site's exposition
God does not reject the blameless
on Job 8:20-22
Bildad states the friends' creed: "God does not reject the blameless, nor will He strengthen the hand of evildoers". The reader carries from 1:1 the narrator's own word that Job is blameless, so Bildad's true doctrine collides with the case in front of him.
This site's exposition
Your enemies will be clothed in shame
Henry suspects a sly edge in the tent of the wicked, for the tent that had just fallen was Job's own. He calls such reasoning unjust. At Job 42:7 it is the friends who are clothed in shame before God.
The record, by era
The Medieval Church2 voices
A commentator
Gregory the DialogistMorals on the Book of Job, Book VIII · Written before 604.
proposed
They that hate thee shall be clothed with confusion, and the tents of the wicked shall not abide. '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 eschewed all that they loved.
Also the contrary is true, for, "Those who hate you will be covered with shame," for they will be openly confounded in various ways so that in this way they will wear confusion like a garment. So that this would not seem impossible to someone …
The Puritans and the Awakening3 voices
Sin brings ruin on persons and families. Yet to argue (as Bildad, I doubt, slyly does) that because Job's family was sunk, and he himself at present seemed helpless, therefore he certainly was an ungodly wicked man, was neither just nor charitable, as long as there appeared no other evidence of his wickedness and ungodliness.
1 Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said, 2 How long wilt thou speak these things? and how long shall the words of thy mouth be like a strong wind? 3 Doth God pervert judgment? or doth the Almighty pervert justice? 4 If thy children have sinned against him, and he have cast them away for their transgression;
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They that hate thee shall be clothed with shame,....
1 more voice on this verse
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
A commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
The haters of Job are the wicked. They shall be clothed with shame (Jer 3:25; 109:29), at the failure of their hope that Job would utterly perish, and because they, instead of him, come to naught.
The words behind it
6 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| שֹׂנְאֶ֥יךָ | soneeikha | [those who] hate you | H8130 → | 146 times |
| יִלְבְּשׁוּ־ | yilbeshu- | they will be clothed | H3847 → | 110 times |
| בֹ֑שֶׁת | voshet | shame | H1322 → | |
| וְאֹ֖הֶל | veohel | and [the] tent of | H168 → | 345 times |
| רְשָׁעִ֣ים | reshaim | wicked [people] | H7563 → | 263 times |
| אֵינֶֽנּוּ׃ פ | ʾeinenu | there not [will be] it | H369 → | 789 times |
שֹׂנְאֶ֥יךָ[those who] hate you
soneeikhaH8130 →146 times
יִלְבְּשׁוּ־they will be clothed
yilbeshu-H3847 →110 times
בֹ֑שֶׁתshame
voshetH1322 →
וְאֹ֖הֶלand [the] tent of
veohelH168 →345 times
רְשָׁעִ֣יםwicked [people]
reshaimH7563 →263 times
אֵינֶֽנּוּ׃ פthere not [will be] it
ʾeinenuH369 →789 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
Psalms 132:18I will clothe his enemies with shame, but the crown upon him will gleam.”
it leads to
- Psalms 35:26
May those who gloat in my distress be ashamed and confounded; may those who exalt themselves over me be clothed in shame and reproach.
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- Luke 1:32–33
He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High. The Lord God will give Him the throne of His father David,
- Matthew 28:18
Then Jesus came to them and said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to Me.
- Psalms 21:8–9
Your hand will apprehend all Your enemies; Your right hand will seize those who hate You.
- Psalms 109:29
May my accusers be clothed with disgrace; may they wear their shame like a robe.
- Psalms 35:26
Through
Psalms 109:29May my accusers be clothed with disgrace; may they wear their shame like a robe.
it leads to
- Psalms 132:18
I will clothe his enemies with shame, but the crown upon him will gleam.”
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- Psalms 132:18
Through
Psalms 35:26May those who gloat in my distress be ashamed and confounded; may those who exalt themselves over me be clothed in shame and reproach.
it leads to
- Psalms 38:16
For I said, “Let them not gloat over me— those who taunt me when my foot slips.”
- Psalms 38:16
Through
Job 8:18If he is uprooted from his place, it will disown him, saying, ‘I never saw you.’
it leads to
- Job 7:10
He never returns to his house; his place remembers him no more.
- Job 7:10
About Job
This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Albert Barnes, Notes on the Book of Job; Gregory the Dialogist, Morals on the Book of Job, Book VIII; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible and Thomas Aquinas, Commentary on Job.