Job 18:1-21
18:1-4 Bildad, one of Job's supposed friends continued to ignore the point of Job's diatribe. They thought that Job was refusing to admit guilt or sin but he truly was innocent. They were annoyed and even disgusted with Job's misery while for Job, everything he knew about faith was under question. They did not help him to persevere in faith because they focused solely on condemning him.
18:5-21 Bildad spoke many verses explaining to Job that the wicked are halted and removed by God, but Job already knew. Reading through verses five through twenty one we reach a lot of truth... but none of it was applicable to Job. Indeed corruption, sin and perpetrators of it are inevitably caused to fail by God.
Job's friends spoke oftentimes true statements but the statements were irrelevant to the situation. They tried to force their friend to admit disgrace. They did not try to support him or to find a godly-purpose for his woes. We must be careful not to charge ahead on an irrelevant path; it is unproductive and even regressive to the word of God within our lives and others'.
