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of sin. Listen to Bildad. Chapter 8, verse 6

“If you are pure and upright, surely now He would rouse Himself
for you and restore your righteous estate.”
That is what Bildad said. If you were pure, if you did not do anything
wrong, then God would restore you. Look at verse 20,

“Lo, God will not reject a man of integrity, Nor will He support the
evildoers.”

That is why you are in that trouble; you are an evildoer. Look at chapter
18. I will only read one verse, but you can glance at the whole chapter,
because from verse 5 all the way to the end he describes the wicked.
He is describing Job, but he describes it in the terms of the wicked.

“Indeed, the light of the wicked goes out, and the flame of his fire
gives no light.”

Then the rest of the chapter describes the wicked, and he says, Job, didn’t
that happen to you? That is what happens to wicked men, and that is why
you have got it because you are a wicked man. “The light of the wicked
goes out.” Chapter 25, you see the same thing. Verses 4-6

“How then can a man be just with God? Or how can he be clean
who is born of woman? If even the moon has no brightness and the
stars are not pure in His sight, how much less man, that maggot, and
the son of man, that worm!”

What right do you have Job, says Bildad, to say that you are righteous?
The wicked suffer. You are suffering. Chapter 11, verse 11
“For He knows false men, and He sees iniquity without
investigating. An idiot will become intelligent when the foal of a wild
donkey is born a man. If you would direct your heart right and
spread out your hand to Him,

if iniquity is in your hand, put it far away, And do not let wickedness
dwell in your tents; Then, indeed, you could lift up your face without
moral defect and you would be steadfast and not fear.”
And so Zophar accuses him of the same thing. Look at verse 20,
“But the eyes of the wicked will fail, and there will be
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