Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Job 8:13
Paths — Of wicked men. By their paths he doth not understand their manner of living, but the events which befall them, God's manner of dealing with them.
Paths — Of wicked men. By their paths he doth not understand their manner of living, but the events which befall them, God's manner of dealing with them.
Verse Job 8:13. _SO_ ARE _THE PATHS_] The _papyrus_ and the _rush_ flourish while they have a plentiful supply of _ooze_ and _water_; but take these away, and their prosperity is speedily at an end;...
SO ARE THE PATHS OF ALL THAT FORGET GOD - This is clearly a part of the quotation from the sayings of the ancients. The word “paths” here means ways, acts, doings. They who forget God are like the pap...
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...
SO ARE, &C. The application of the first simile. THE PATHS. The Septuagint reads "the latter end"....
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...
Application of the simile. When men forget God, and His sustaining grace is withdrawn from them, they sink down suddenly and perish like the luxuriant water-reed. _the hypocrite_ This word is difficul...
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...
FOR INQUIRE, I PRAY THEE, &C.— Bildad had exhorted Job to apply himself to God by prayer, upon the assurance, that if he were innocent, as he pretended, or shewed any marks of a sincere repentance, th...
WHOSE HOPE SHALL BE CUT OFF, &C.— _The thing which he longed for shall be a torment to him; and his confidence shall be as the spider's web._ Heath....
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...
_SO ARE THE PATHS OF ALL THAT FORGET GOD; AND THE HYPOCRITE'S HOPE SHALL PERISH:_ Paths - so ways (Proverbs 1:19). ALL THAT FORGET GOD - the distinguishing trait of the godless. "The wicked shall be...
8:13 profane (c-12) Or ungodly....
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...
HOPE] of prosperity....
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...
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...
כֵּ֗ן אָ֭רְחֹות כָּל ־שֹׁ֣כְחֵי אֵ֑ל וְ תִקְו
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...
(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...
SO [ARE] THE PATHS OF ALL THAT FORGET GOD,.... Who forget that there is a God; he is not in all, and scarce in any of their thoughts, and they live without him in the world; who forget the works of Go...
So [are] the paths of all that forget God; and the hypocrite's hope shall perish: Ver. 13. _So are the paths of all that forget God_] To remember God is as necessary as to draw breath, saith Chrysost...
_So are the paths of all that forget God_ Of wicked men, who are often described by this character; see Psalms 9:17; Psalms 50:22; or, of hypocrites, as the next words explain it, whose first and fund...
An Accusation of Wickedness against Job. Bildad was convinced that Job was, in some way, guilty of some special great transgression against the Lord, that his present affliction was the punishment fo...
So are the paths of all that forget God, in the midst of their apparent prosperity they suddenly fail; AND THE HYPOCRITE'S HOPE SHALL PERISH, the expectation of the ungodly, of him who has fallen away...
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...
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...
OF ALL THAT FORGET GOD, i.e. of wicked men, who are branded with this same character, PSALMS 9:17, PSALMS 50:22; or hypocrites, as the next words explain it, who are described by their first and funda...
Job 8:13 paths H734 forget H7911 (H8802) God H410 hope H8615 hypocrite H2611 perish H6 (H8799) that forget God -
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...
_So are the paths of all that forget God._ WITHERING PATHS I. Consider the sin of forgetting God. 1. It is a very common sin. Thousands never think of Him except in times of trouble. 2. It is an i...
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...
Deuteronomy 6:12; Deuteronomy 8:11; Deuteronomy 8:14; Deuteronomy 8:19;...