Bildad speaks again, and it is more of the same.
“All memory of [the existence of wicked men] will fade from the earth. No one will remember their names.”
Isn’t it often the case, however, that the opposite is true. How many godly men and women have lived and died without any notoriety at all?
As poignantly expressed by Gerhard Tersteegen in “Pilgrim Song”:
“We follow in His footsteps;
What if our feet be torn?
Where [God] has marked the pathway
All hail the briar and thorn!
Scarce seen, scare heard, unreckoned,
Despised, defamed, unknown,
Or heard but by our singing,
On children, ever on!”
