Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Job 8:19
Behold — This is the issue of the flourishing state. This all his joy comes to. And, &c. — Out of the same earth or place shall another tree grow.
Behold — This is the issue of the flourishing state. This all his joy comes to. And, &c. — Out of the same earth or place shall another tree grow.
Verse Job 8:19. _BEHOLD THIS_ IS _THE JOY OF HIS WAY_] A strong irony. Here is the issue of all his mirth, of his sports, games, and pastimes! See the unfeeling, domineering, polluting and polluted s...
BEHOLD, THIS IS THE JOY OF HIS WAY - This is evidently sarcastic. “Lo! such is the joy of his course! He boasts of joy, as all hypocrites do, but his joy endures only for a little time. This is the en...
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...
BEHOLD. Figure of speech _Asterismos._ IS. Supply "ends" instead of "is"....
_joy of his way way_may be "fate," as often, and the words would be ironical; or "way" may be "course of life" so ends what was to him the joy of his course of life. _shall others grow_ Or, _do other...
A new figure of a spreading, luxuriant plant, suddenly destroyed, and leaving not a trace of itself behind. _before the sun_ This scarcely means _openly_, in broad day and in the face of the sun, but...
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...
BEHOLD, THIS IS THE JOY OF HIS WAY, &C.— _Behold him now; destruction is in his path; and strangers out of the dust shall spring up in his room._ 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...
_BEHOLD, THIS IS THE JOY OF HIS WAY, AND OUT OF THE EARTH SHALL OTHERS GROW._ Behold, is the joy of his way. Bitter irony. The hypocrite boasts of joy. This then is his "joy" at the last. AND OUT OF...
THE JOY OF HIS WAY] the short-lived prosperity of the sinner. OTHERS GROW] who fill his place....
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...
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...
הֶן ־ה֭וּא מְשֹׂ֣ושׂ דַּרְכֹּ֑ו וּ֝ מֵ עָפָ֗ר
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...
Behold, this [is] the joy (l) of his way, and out of the earth shall others grow. (l) To be planted in another place, where it may grow as it pleases....
_Joy. Septuagint, "the catastrophe of the wicked, for another shall spring," &c. 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...
BEHOLD, THIS [IS] THE JOY OF HIS WAY,.... Of the state and condition of the hypocrite, who, while he is in outward prosperity, exults and rejoices, but his joy is but short, it is but for a moment, J...
Behold, this [is] the joy of his way, and out of the earth shall others grow. Ver. 19. _Behold, this is the joy of his way_] _q.d._ A goodly joy! sure the hypocrite's joy is but the hypocrisy of joy,...
_Behold, this is the joy of his way_ Or, rather, _This is the way of his joy:_ it all ends in this: this is the issue of his flourishing state. He falls into heavy calamities, from which he can never...
Behold, this is the joy of his way, thus his pretended joyful way of living comes to a sudden, disastrous end, AND OUT OF THE EARTH SHALL OTHERS GROW, out of the dust other men blessed with external p...
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...
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...
This is the joyful and happy issue of the flourishing course, state, and condition (which is frequently called a way) of this tree, or of the hypocrite, manifestly represented by it, and expressed JOB...
Job 8:19 joy H4885 way H1870 earth H6083 others H312 grow H6779 (H8799) this is the joy - Job 20:5;...
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...
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...
1 Samuel 2:8; Ezekiel 17:24; Job 20:5; Matthew 13:20; Matthew 13:21;...