Job 18:1
_THEN ANSWERED BILDAD THE SHUHITE, AND SAID,_ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_THEN ANSWERED BILDAD THE SHUHITE, AND SAID,_ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_HOW LONG WILL IT BE ERE YE MAKE AN END OF WORDS? MARK, AND AFTERWARDS WE WILL SPEAK._ Ye - the other two friends of Job, whom Bildad charges with having spoken mere "words" - i:e., empty speeches: or else, 'thou, Job, and those who think with thee;' opposed to "mark" - i:e., come to reason, consid... [ Continue Reading ]
_WHEREFORE ARE WE COUNTED AS BEASTS, AND REPUTED VILE IN YOUR SIGHT?_ Beasts - alluding to what Job said (Job 12:7; so Isaiah 1:3; Psalms 49:12; Psalms 49:20). VILE - rather, from a Hebrew root, to stop up х_ NITMIYNUW_ (H2933), not from _ TAAMEE'_ (H2930), but from _ TAAMAAH_ (H2933), or _ 'AATAM... [ Continue Reading ]
_HE TEARETH HIMSELF IN HIS ANGER: SHALL THE EARTH BE FORSAKEN FOR THEE? AND SHALL THE ROCK BE REMOVED OUT OF HIS PLACE?_ Rather, turning to Job, 'Thou that tearest thyself in anger' (Job 5:2, "Wrath killeth the foolish man;" also, Job 16:9, "He teareth me in his anger"). Bildad implies, It is not s... [ Continue Reading ]
_YEA, THE LIGHT OF THE WICKED SHALL BE PUT OUT, AND THE SPARK OF HIS FIRE SHALL NOT SHINE._ That (Job 18:4) cannot be. YEA - however much the wicked kick against it. The decree of God is unalterable: the light (prosperity) of the wicked shall at length be put out. HIS FIRE - alluding to Arabian... [ Continue Reading ]
_THE LIGHT SHALL BE DARK IN HIS TABERNACLE, AND HIS CANDLE SHALL BE PUT OUT WITH HIM._ Candle - the lamp which in the East is usually fastened to the ceiling. Oil abounds in those regions, and the lamp was kept burning all night, as now in Egypt, where the poorest would rather dispense with food th... [ Continue Reading ]
_THE STEPS OF HIS STRENGTH SHALL BE STRAITENED, AND HIS OWN COUNSEL SHALL CAST HIM DOWN._ Steps of ... strength - Hebrew for his strong steps. A firm step marks health. To be straitened in steps is to be no longer able to move about at will (Proverbs 4:12; contrast Psalms 18:36, "Thou hast enlarged... [ Continue Reading ]
_FOR HE IS CAST INTO A NET BY HIS OWN FEET, AND HE WALKETH UPON A SNARE._ He walketh upon - rather, 'he lets himself go х_ YITHALAAK_ (H1980)] into the net' (Umbreit). If the English version be retained, then understand "snare" to be the pitfall, covered over with branches and earth, which, when wa... [ Continue Reading ]
_THE GIN SHALL TAKE HIM BY THE HEEL, AND THE ROBBER SHALL PREVAIL AGAINST HIM._ Robber, х_ TSAMIYM_ (H6782); cf. Job 18:5] - rather, answering to 'gin' in the parallel clause, 'the noose shall hold him fast' (Umbreit).... [ Continue Reading ]
_THE SNARE IS LAID FOR HIM IN THE GROUND, AND A TRAP FOR HIM IN THE WAY._ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_TERRORS SHALL MAKE HIM AFRAID ON EVERY SIDE, AND SHALL DRIVE HIM TO HIS FEET._ Terrors - often mentioned in this book (Job 18:14; Job 24:17, etc.) The terrors excited through an evil conscience are here personified. 'Magor-missabib,' fear round about (Jeremiah 20:3). DRIVE ... TO HIS FEET - rathe... [ Continue Reading ]
_HIS STRENGTH SHALL BE HUNGERBITTEN, AND DESTRUCTION SHALL BE READY AT HIS SIDE._ The Hebrew is brief and bold, 'his strength is hungry.' Besides dangers at every step, the sinner's own strength is wasted by disease. DESTRUCTION - i:e., a great calamity (Proverbs 1:27). READY AT HIS SIDE - clos... [ Continue Reading ]
_IT SHALL DEVOUR THE STRENGTH OF HIS SKIN: EVEN THE FIRSTBORN OF DEATH SHALL DEVOUR HIS STRENGTH._ Umbreit has 'he' for "it" - i:e., in the rage of hunger he shall devour his own body:' or, his own children (Lamentations 4:10). Rather, 'destruction,' from the last verse, or else 'the first-born of d... [ Continue Reading ]
_HIS CONFIDENCE SHALL BE ROOTED OUT OF HIS TABERNACLE, AND IT SHALL BRING HIM TO THE KING OF TERRORS._ Confidence - all that the father trusted in for domestic happiness-children, fortune, etc.; referring to Job's losses. He and his hopes together are cast out from his home (Job 8:14. "Whose hope s... [ Continue Reading ]
_IT SHALL DWELL IN HIS TABERNACLE, BECAUSE IT IS NONE OF HIS: BRIMSTONE SHALL BE SCATTERED UPON HIS HABITATION._ It - terror shall haunt, etc.; and not, as Umbreit, another, which the last clause disproves: for the fire having consumed his tabernacle, none other can dwell in it except the terror wh... [ Continue Reading ]
_HIS ROOTS SHALL BE DRIED UP BENEATH, AND ABOVE SHALL HIS BRANCH BE CUT OFF._ Roots - himself. BRANCH - his children (Job 8:12; Job 15:30; Malachi 4:1, "The day that cometh shall burn them up, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.").... [ Continue Reading ]
_HIS REMEMBRANCE SHALL PERISH FROM THE EARTH, AND HE SHALL HAVE NO NAME IN THE STREET._ Street. Men shall not speak of him in meeting in the highways. Rather, in the field, or meadow х_ CHUWTSOWT _ (H2351), Job 5:10 as here], the shepherds shall no more mention his name. A picture from nomadic life... [ Continue Reading ]
_HE SHALL BE DRIVEN FROM LIGHT INTO DARKNESS, AND CHASED OUT OF THE WORLD._ Light ... darkness - existence-nonexistence.... [ Continue Reading ]
_HE SHALL NEITHER HAVE SON NOR NEPHEW AMONG HIS PEOPLE, NOR ANY REMAINING IN HIS DWELLINGS._ Nephew - (so Isaiah 14:22). But it is translated 'grandson' (Genesis 21:23): translate 'kinsman.'... [ Continue Reading ]
_THEY THAT COME AFTER HIM SHALL BE ASTONIED AT HIS DAY, AS THEY THAT WENT BEFORE WERE AFFRIGHTED._ After... before - rather, 'those in the West-those in the East' - i:e., all people; literally, those behind-these before; because Orientals, in geography, turn with their face to the East (not to the... [ Continue Reading ]
_SURELY SUCH ARE THE DWELLINGS OF THE WICKED, AND THIS IS THE PLACE OF HIM THAT KNOWETH NOT GOD._ (Job 7:22 , margin, "The dwelling-place of the wicked shall come to nought" - Hebrew, 'shall not be'). Remarks: (1) The eternal and unchangeable laws of God's justice cannot be set aside, in order to... [ Continue Reading ]