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Job 8:21
till He, or, while He will, fill thy mouth with laughing and thy lips with rejoicing. That, Bildad intimates, would have been the lot of Job always if he had not become guilty in some unusually bad way.
till He, or, while He will, fill thy mouth with laughing and thy lips with rejoicing. That, Bildad intimates, would have been the lot of Job always if he had not become guilty in some unusually bad way.
Verse Job 8:21. _TILL HE FILL THY MOUTH WITH LAUGHING_] Perhaps it may be well to translate after Mr. _Good_ "_Even yet_ may he fill thy mouth with laughter!" The two verses may be read as a _prayer_...
TILL HE FILL THY MOUTH WITH LAUGHING - Until he make thee completely happy. The word rendered “till” (עד _‛__ad_), is rendered by Dr. Good, “even yet.” Noyes, following Houbigant, DeWette, and Michael...
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)...
Bildad has warned Job of the fate of the impious. Now he returns to the other half of his doctrine also, and sums up his whole position in Job 8:20. God can neither reject the blameless, nor uphold th...
REJOICINGS. shouting for joy....
_till he fill_ If this rendering be adopted, the word "till" is used somewhat generally to express what God's practical rectitude, as described on both its sides Job 8:20, will issue in. Others prefer...
Finally Bildad repeats his general principle and augurs from the one side of it a happy and brilliant future for Job. _cast away a perfect man_ This word "perfect" is the title given to Job by the Aut...
BEHOLD, GOD WILL NOT CAST AWAY— _Lo! as God doth not cast away the perfect man, so neither doth he strengthen the hands of the wicked;_ Job 8:21. _Therefore he will again fill thy mouth with laughter,...
3. If Job is upright, God will restore him. (Job 8:20-22) TEXT 8:20-22 20 BEHOLD, GOD WILL NOT CAST AWAY A PERFECT MAN, Neither will he uphold the evil-doers. 21 He will yet fill thy mouth with la...
_TILL HE FILL THY MOUTH WITH LAUGHING, AND THY LIPS WITH REJOICING._ Fill thy mouth with laughing - (Psalms 126:2). Until х_ `AD_ (H5703)] - literally, 'to the point that;' God's blessing on thee, wh...
8:21 Whilst (i-1) Or 'until.'...
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...
TILL HE] RV 'He will yet.' Bildad, sharing the view of Eliphaz that while Job must have fallen into some heinous sin he was nevertheless a pious and upright man at heart, bases on this his prophecy th...
Bildad was sure that God is fair. So he was sure that God would help Job. Bildad’s advice was simple. Job should do the right things. God would rescue Job. But Bildad’s answer was simply words. It was...
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...
TILL HE FILL THY MOUTH WITH LAUGHING. — Rather, _he will yet fill thy mouth with laughter_ — _afflicted though thou hast been, thou shalt again rejoice._ The attitude of Bildad is one of unsympathetic...
עַד ־יְמַלֵּ֣ה שְׂחֹ֣וק פִּ֑יךָ וּ שְׂפָתֶ֥יךָ...
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...
Till he fill thy mouth with (m) laughing, and thy lips with rejoicing. (m) If you are godly, he will give you opportunity to rejoice and if not your affliction will increase....
CHAPTER VIII. _ Until. If thou be simple, (Haydock) or irreproachable, (Calmet) God will make thee exult. (Haydock) --- Until, &c. (Menochius) --- He will restore thee to thy former state of affluenc...
(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...
TILL HE FILL THY MOUTH WITH LAUGHING, AND THY LIPS WITH REJOICING. Directing himself to Job; and suggesting, that if he was a perfect, sincere, and upright man. God would not cast him away utterly, bu...
Till he fill thy mouth with laughing, and thy lips with rejoicing. Ver. 21. _Till he fill thy mouth with laughing, &c._] Here he applies the promise of the Divine help to Job, and that which is here...
_Till he fill thy mouth with laughing_ What I have said in general of good men shall be made good to thee if thou art such: God will not forsake thee, nor desist from doing thee good, till he give the...
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...
REJOICING: _ Heb._ shouting for joy...
20-22 Bildad here assures Job, that as he was so he should fare; therefore they concluded, that as he fared so he was. God will not cast away an upright man; he may be cast down for a time, but he sh...
And what I have said in general of all perfect men, shall be made good to thee, if thou be such a one; God will not forsake time, nor desist from doing thee good, TILL HE FILL, & c., i.e. God will giv...
Job 8:21 fill H4390 (H8762) mouth H6310 laughing H7814 lips H8193 rejoicing H8643 he fill - Genesis 21
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...
_Behold, God will not cast away a perfect man._ MORAL CHARACTER DETERMINES A MAN’S DESTINY I. The real condition of the good. By the real condition we mean the relation of the soul, not to the circu...
JOB—NOTE ON JOB 8:1 Bildad is the second friend to “comfort” Job. ⇐ ⇔...
JOB—NOTE ON JOB 8:20 In his conclusion, Bildad asserts two things: if Job were a BLAMELESS MAN, God would not have rejected him; the TENT OF THE WICKED will not stand for long....
_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...
Ezra 3:11; Genesis 21:6; Isaiah 65:13; Isaiah 65:14; Luke 6:21;...
'Till, &c. — And what I have said in general of good men, shall be made good to thee, if thou art such: God will not forsake thee, nor desist from doing thee good, 'till he give thee abundant matter o...