Verse Job 18:9. _THE GIN SHALL TAKE HIM_] _Houbigant_ reads the _tenth_ before the _ninth_ verse, thus: "The snare is laid for him in the ground, and a trap for him in the way. The gin shall take him...
THE GIN - Another method of taking wild beasts. It was a snare so made as to spring suddenly on an animal, securing him by the neck or feet. We use a trap for the same purpose. The Hebrew word (פח _pa...
CHAPTER 18 BILDAD'S SECOND ADDRESS _ 1. New reproaches (Job 18:1)_ 2. Once again, the wicked and what they deserve (Job 18:5) Job 18:1. Bildad has the good sense in this second oration to be very br...
JOB 18. SECOND SPEECH OF BILDAD.Bildad speaks this time at unusual length, but his speech has no significance, since it simply describes the fate of the godless. Into the description of this, however,...
THE GIN. a gin. Authorized Version, 1611, reads "grin". a snare. Same meaning, but now obsolete. THE. a ROBBER. noose....
_the robber shall prevail_ Rather, THE TRAP LAYETH HOLD OF HIM, as all the verbs in this passage should be put in the present tense. The word is that occurring ch. Job 5:5. The world of God is one net...
All things hasten on his ruin; the moral order of the world is such that wherever he moves or touches upon it it becomes a snare to seize him. "Snares" do not mean temptations, they are hidden instrum...
The disastrous end of the wicked, in the moral order of the world, is certain The last verse naturally led over to this idea, which is the theme of the speech. The idea is set out in a great variety...
TEXT 18:5-21 5 YEA, THE LIGHT OF THE WICKED SHALL BE PUT OUT, And the spark of the fire shall not shine. 6 The light shall be dark in his tent, And his lamp above him shall be put out. 7 The step...
BILDAD'S SECOND SPEECH Bildad replies with a rebuke to Job and a reassertion of the miserable lot of the wicked already asserted by Eliphaz; not so much, however, with covert reference to Job, to who...
GIN] i.e. trap. The word was originally 'grinne.' 9B. RV 'a snare shall lay hold on him.'...
JOB, A SERVANT OF GOD Job _KEITH SIMONS_ Words in boxes (except for words in brackets) are from the Bible. This commentary has been through Advanced Checking. CHAPTER 18 BILDAD’S SECOND SPEECH...
Bildad’s only idea in this chapter was that a wicked man is never successful. Bildad did not actually say that Job was wicked. But Bildad clearly had this opinion....
The wicked man tries to make trouble for other people. But he himself suffers from his own evil schemes. He is like a stupid hunter who walks into his own trap. Job said that God caused his troubles....
יֹאחֵ֣ז בְּ עָקֵ֣ב פָּ֑ח יַחֲזֵ֖ק עָלָ֣יו צַמ
XV. A SCHEME OF WORLD RULE Job 18:1 BILDAD SPEAKS COMPOSED in the orderly parallelism of the finished _ mashal_, this speech of Bildad stands out in its strength and subtlety and, no less, in its c...
“CAST INTO A NET” Job 18:1 Bildad's second speech reveals how utterly he failed to understand Job's appeal for a divine witness and surety. Such words were _snares_ to him, Job 18:2, r.v. The deep t...
Bildad now returned to the charge, and as was the case with Eliphaz it is perfectly evident from his opening rebuke that he was speaking under a sense of annoyance. He was wounded at the wrongs done t...
_Thirst: the greedy hunter. (Calmet) --- Hebrew, "the robber." (Haydock)_...
(6) The light shall be dark in his tabernacle, and his candle shall be put out with him. (7) The steps of his strength shall be straitened, and his own counsel shall cast him down. (8) For he is cast...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 4 THROUGH 31. As to the friends of Job, they do not call for any extended remarks. They urge the doctrine that God's earthly government is a full measure and...
THE GIN SHALL TAKE [HIM] BY THE HEEL,.... And hold him fast, so that he shall not be able to get away, especially out of such as are set by God himself; for God has his nets, and snares, and gins for...
The gin shall take [him] by the heel, [and] the robber shall prevail against him. Ver. 9. _The gin shall take him by the heel_] Or, he shall lay hold on the trap with his heel, so Mercer readeth it;...
_The gin shall take him by the heel_ That is, take fast hold on him, so as to keep him in those distresses. _And the robber shall prevail against him_ Hebrew, צמים, _tsammim, the horrible_ or _terribl...
The gin shall take him by the heel, literally, "shall take hold of his heel the trapnet," AND THE ROBBER SHALL PREVAIL AGAINST HIM, the snare shall fasten upon him, the noose holding him a prisoner....
BILDAD RECKONS JOB WITH THE HARDENED SINNERS...
BILDAD'S STRONG REPROOF (vv.1-3) Bildad did not learn from Job's words to be a little more considerate than before, but shows only more strong opposition, reproving Job unjustly. He considered Job's...
The "snare" is. bird trap, and the "trap" that "snaps shut" is one with some kind of mesh. The "noose" hidden in the ground is. rope with. noose, and the "trap" on the path is the general term _(Zuck...
5-10 Bildad describes the miserable condition of a wicked man; in which there is much certain truth, if we consider that a sinful condition is a sad condition, and that sin will be men's ruin, if the...
SHALL TAKE THE BY THE HEEL, i.e. take fast hold of him, so as to keep him in those distresses; and when he is insnared the robber shall come upon him, and take, and spoil, or kill him. Or, THE HORRIBL...
Job 18:9 net H6341 takes H270 (H8799) heel H6119 snare H6782 hold H2388 (H8686) The gin -...
CONTENTS: Bildad's second discourse on Job's case. CHARACTERS: God, Bildad, Job. CONCLUSION: The way of sin is a way of fear and leads to everlasting confusion, of which the present terrors of consc...
Job 18:6. _The light shall be dark in his tabernacle._ Darkness is a most ancient figure of speech for all kinds of affliction. But to good men, “the Lord will make darkness light before them.” Isaiah...
_Then answered Bildad the Shuhite._ THE DANGER OF DENOUNCING WICKEDNESS How wonderfully well the three comforters painted the portrait of wickedness! Nothing can be added to their delineation of sin....
JOB—NOTE ON JOB 18:1 Like Eliphaz, Bildad expressed his frustration (vv. Job 18:2): Who is Job to maintain his position and criticize the words of his friends? The remainder of Bildad’s response is a...
JOB—NOTE ON JOB 18:7 Bildad uses the vocabulary of a TRAP (NET, SNARE, ROPE) to argue that what Job describes as God breaking him apart (see...
_BILDAD’S SECOND SPEECH_ Bildad the bitterest and most hostile of the three friends. No speech as yet so insolent and provoking. Full of fiery scathing denunciation against—the wicked—intending, of c...
EXPOSITION JOB 18:1 Bildad's second speech is no improvement upon his first (Job 8:1.). He has evidently been exceedingly nettled by Job's contemptuous words concerning his "comforters" (Job 16:2,...
Then answered Bildad (Job 18:1), So this is Bildad's second discourse with him. How long will it be before you make an end of words? just make the mark, and afterwards we will speak. Why do you count...
Isaiah 8:14; Isaiah 8:15; Job 1:15; Job 1:17; Job 5:5...