Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Job 8:9
We, &c. — But lately born, and therefore have but little knowledge and experience. We live not so long as they did, to make observations on the methods of Divine Providence.
We, &c. — But lately born, and therefore have but little knowledge and experience. We live not so long as they did, to make observations on the methods of Divine Providence.
Verse Job 8:9. _FOR WE_ ARE BUT OF _YESTERDAY, AND KNOW NOTHING_] It is evident that Bildad refers to those times in which human life was protracted to a much _longer date_ than that in which Job liv...
FOR WE ARE BUT OF YESTERDAY - That is, we are of short life. We have had but few opportunities of observation compared with those who have gone before us. There can be no doubt that Bildad here refers...
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...
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...
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...
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...
_FOR INQUIRE, I PRAY THEE, OF THE FORMER AGE, AND PREPARE THYSELF TO THE SEARCH OF THEIR FATHERS:_ The former age - the age immediately preceding Job. THEIR FATHERS - the fathers pricking that age,...
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...
WE] the men of his own day. 11-15. As surely as a water-plant perishes without water so surely will the sinner perish when God turns from him....
Ancient advice can be good. But it can sometimes be wrong. Job was not suffering for any evil deed. And Job’s problem was not that he failed to pray. (See Job 1:5 and Job 1:20.) Job was suffering beca...
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...
כִּֽי ־תְמֹ֣ול אֲ֭נַחְנוּ וְ לֹ֣א נֵדָ֑ע כִּ֤
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...
(For we [are but of] (f) yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth [are] a shadow:) (f) Meaning, that it is not enough to have the experience of ourselves, but to be confirmed by the e...
That. Hebrew, "because our days." (Haydock) --- Baldad strives, in vain, to prove what nobody contested. But he does not come to the point, and shew that Job was guilty. Past histories might have info...
(1) В¶ Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said, (2) How long wilt thou speak these things? and how long shall the words of thy mouth be like a strong wind? (3) Doth God pervert judgment? or doth th...
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...
FOR WE [ARE BUT OF] YESTERDAY \S\,.... Which is not to be understood strictly of the day last past, but of a short space of time backward; and especially when compared with the antediluvian fathers, w...
Job 8:9 (For we [are but of] yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth [are] a shadow:) Ver. 9. _For we are but of yesterday_] Heb. We are yesterday, that is, yesterday's offspring, up...
_We are but of yesterday_, &c. But lately born, and therefore have but little knowledge and experience. We live not so long as they did to make observations on the methods of Divine Providence. “There...
(for we are but of yesterday and know nothing, our own experience alone counts for nothing, BECAUSE OUR DAYS UPON EARTH ARE A SHADOW, the term of a single human life is insufficient to fathom the eter...
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...
NOTHING: _ Heb._ not...
"FOR WE ARE ONLY OF YESTERDAY AND KNOW NOTHING": Each individual's life is very short and thus his own knowledge limited, therefore we should consider the entire human experience....
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...
BUT OF YESTERDAY; but lately born, and therefore have but little knowledge and experience, as it follows. OUR DAYS UPON EARTH ARE A SHADOW: this is meant either, 1. Of their lives in particular, whic...
Job 8:9 yesterday H8543 know H3045 (H8799) days H3117 earth H776 shadow H6738 we are but - Job 7:6;...
Job 8:9 One only appears in the centuries of human existence who speaks of immortality as One who knows He is the most lowly of the sons of men. Yet He talks of providence, of immortality, as God migh...
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...
_For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth are a shadow._ THE INTELLECTUAL POVERTY OF LIFE The two unquestionable truths that Bildad here expresses are the transitor...
JOB—NOTE ON JOB 8:1 Bildad is the second friend to “comfort” Job. ⇐ ⇔...
JOB—NOTE ON JOB 8:8 Bildad bases his advice on the wisdom of his FATHERS, that is, his ancestors. ⇐...
_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 Chronicles 29:15; Genesis 47:9; Job 7:6; Psalms 102:11; Psalms 144:4