Kretzmann's Popular Commentary
Job 8:14
whose hope shall be cut off, and whose trust shall be a spider's web, that in which the godless trust, on which they place their confidence, is like a spider's web, which is broken at the slightest touch.
whose hope shall be cut off, and whose trust shall be a spider's web, that in which the godless trust, on which they place their confidence, is like a spider's web, which is broken at the slightest touch.
Verse Job 8:14. _WHOSE HOPE SHALL BE CUT OFF_] Such persons, subdued by the strong habits of sin, hope on fruitlessly, till the last thread of the web of life is cut off from the beam; and then they f...
WHOSE HOPE SHALL BE CUT OFF - Schultens supposes that the quotation from the ancients closes with Job 8:13, and that these are the comments of Bildad on the passage to which he had referred. Rosenmull...
CHAPTER 8 BILDAD'S ADDRESS _ 1. How long, Job? (Job 8:1)_ 2. Enquire of the former age (Job 8:8) 3. God's dealing with the wicked and the righteous (Job 8:11)...
THE WISDOM OF THE ANCIENTS. Bildad recalls Job to tradition as enshrined in the proverbs of the fathers (Job 8:8). Authority belongs to the voice of the past (Job 8:9). The respect which our age has f...
HOPE. confidence....
_shall be cut off_ Perhaps rather, GOETH IN SUNDER, though the meaning is not quite certain. One would have expected a noun here parallel to "spider's web" in the second clause, but no efforts to find...
The moral wisdom of the ancients Bildad, having laid down his moral principle, invites Job to reflect that it is a principle resting on the research and the generalized experience of men of generatio...
DISCOURSE: 457 BILDAD WARNS JOB OF THE DANGER OF HYPOCRISY Job 8:8. Inquire, I pray thee, of the former age, and prepare thyself to the search of their fathers: (for we are but of yesterday, and know...
2. The wisdom of the ages teaches that it is the godless who perish. (Job 8:8-19) TEXT 8:8-19 8 FOR INQUIRE, I PRAY THEE, OF THE FORMER AGE, And apply thyself to that which their fathers have searc...
_WHOSE HOPE SHALL BE CUT OFF, AND WHOSE TRUST SHALL BE A SPIDER'S WEB._ Cut off - so Gesenius. Or, to accord with the metaphor of the spider's house (Hebrew for "web"). 'The confidence on which he bu...
8:14 web. (d-13) Lit. 'house.'...
THE FIRST SPEECH OF BILDAD Holding the same doctrine about sin and suffering as Eliphaz, Bildad supports the views of his friend by an appeal to the teaching of antiquity. He shows less sympathy and...
Bildad explained his ideas with three stories. • The first story is about plants that grow near the river (verses 11-13). Without water, such plants die quickly. Such plants are like people who do no...
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 8 BILDAD’S FIRST SPEECH TH...
אֲשֶׁר ־יָקֹ֥וט כִּסְלֹ֑ו וּ בֵ֥ית עַ֝כָּבִ֗ישׁ...
XIX. VENTURESOME THEOLOGY Job 8:1 BILDAD SPEAKS THE first attempt to meet Job has been made by one who relies on his own experience and takes pleasure in recounting the things which he has seen. Bi...
GOD WILL NOT CAST AWAY Job 8:1 Bildad now takes up the argument, appealing to the experience of former generations to show that special suffering, like Job's, indicated special sin, however deeply c...
In answer to Job, the next of his friends, Bildad, took up the argument. There is greater directness in his speech than in that of Eliphaz. By comparison it lacks in courtesy, but gains in force. He m...
Whose hope shall be cut off, and whose trust [shall be] a (h) spider's web. (h) Which is today and tomorrow swept away....
_Him, the hypocrite, or God. (Calmet) --- Both shall one day condemn the ill use of riches. (Haydock)_...
(10) Shall not they teach thee, and tell thee, and utter words out of their heart? (11) Can the rush grow up without mire? can the flag grow without water? (12) Whilst it is yet in his greenness, and...
Bildad's Lecture I. INTRODUCTION A. Last week in Job's reply to Eliphaz - we saw a small glimpse of the Job's physical condition: 1. The worms, the sores that would break open in the sleepless nigh...
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...
WHOSE HOPE SHALL BE CUT OFF,.... The same thing as before, expressed in different words, and repeated for the certainty of it; signifying that it should be of no manner of use, should be wholly lost,...
Whose hope shall be cut off, and whose trust [shall be] a spider's web. Ver. 14. Whose hope (or whose folly, that is, whose foolish hope) shall be cut off] The Latin translation hath it, his folly sh...
_Whose hope shall be cut off_ That is, whose wealth and outward glory, which is the foundation and matter of his hope, shall be suddenly and violently taken away from him; or, as the Hebrew יקושׂ, _ja...
BILDAD'S CRUEL RESPONSE (vv.1-22) Bildad's response to Job was much more brief than that of Eliphaz, but following along the same line. He did not begin in the conciliatory way that Eliphaz did, how...
A SPIDERS WEB: _ Heb._ a spiders house...
"WHOSE TRUST. SPIDER'S WEB": Anything in which the godless may seek to hope, is as flimsy as. spider's web. He has nothing upon which to lean. Therefore, Job's confidence in his innocence is as fragil...
8-19 Bildad discourses well of hypocrites and evil-doers, and the fatal end of all their hopes and joys. He proves this truth of the destruction of the hopes and joys of hypocrites, by an appeal to f...
i.e. Whose wealth and outward glory, which is the matter of his _hope_ and _trust_, shall be cut off, i.e. suddenly and violently taken away from him. _Whose hope shall be irksome or tedious to him_,...
Job 8:14 confidence H3689 off H6990 (H8799) trust H4009 spiders H5908 web H1004 web - Heb. house,...
TRUST (_ See Scofield) - (Psalms 2:12). _...
CONTENTS: Bildad's theory of Job's affliction. CHARACTERS: God, Bildad, Job. CONCLUSION: It is not just or charitable to argue that merely because one is in deep affliction, he is therefore a hypocr...
Job 8:7. _Though thy beginning was small, yet thy latter end should be great._ Many great patriarchs, like Jacob, had once but a small beginning. Job 8:11. _Can the rush grow._ The LXX read, “the pap...
_Whose trust shall be a spider’s web._ THE SPIDER AND THE HYPOCRITE In physics, in morals, in religion, reality has no respect for those who have no regard for truth and fact. Abused nature, undeterr...
A SPIDER'S WEB Whose trust is a spider's web. Job 8:14. You have all seen a spider's web, and some of you may have stopped for a minute to admire the arrangement of it. You noticed the long strong l...
JOB—NOTE ON JOB 8:1 Bildad is the second friend to “comfort” Job. ⇐ ⇔...
JOB—NOTE ON JOB 8:11 PAPYRUS and REEDS grow quickly in the wetlands, but they are also very vulnerable. They need a constant supply of water. Other plants are deeply rooted in rocky soil, but they can...
_BILDAD’S FIRST SPEECH_ Bildad less courteous and considerate of Job’s feelings than even Eliphaz. Commences with an unfeeling reflection on his speech. Pursues the same line of argument and address...
EXPOSITION JOB 8:1 THEN ANSWERED BILDAD THE SHUHITE, AND SAID. Bildad the Shuhite has the second place in the passage where Job's friends are first mentioned (Job 2:11), and occupies the same relativ...
So Bildad, the next friend, speaks up and he said, How long will you speak these things? how long will your words of your mouth be like a [big, bag of] wind? Does God pervert judgment? or does the Al...
Isaiah 59:5; Isaiah 59:6...
Hope — Whose wealth and outward glory, the matter of his hope, and trust, shall be cut off suddenly and violently taken away from him. Web — Which tho' it be formed with great art and industry, is eas...