job 8

In Job 8:13-14, Bildad says, “Such is the destiny of all who forget God; so perishes the hope of the godless. What he trusts in is fragile; what he relies on is a spider’s web. He leans on his web, but it gives way; he clings to it, but it does not hold.” ​

While wrongly concluding Job’s adversities were the consequence of abandoning God, Bildad’s observations about the web’s fragility are spot-on. And its truth rings true to this day. Living in a material world, it’s so easy to trust in what we can see and touch, rather than what the apostle Paul in 1 Timothy 1:17 describes as “the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only God.” --Bob Tamasy