All things hasten on his ruin; the moral order of the world is such that wherever he moves or touches upon it it becomes a snare to seize him. "Snares" do not mean temptations, they are hidden instruments of destruction that seize and hold the hunted creature. His "counsel," and his own feet (Job 18:8), his evil nature and its outcome, his evil conduct, carry him into these snares laid for wickedness in the constitution of things.
Verse Job 18:8. _FOR HE IS CAST INTO A NET_] His own conduct will infallibly bring him to ruin. He shall be like a wild beast taken in a net; the more he flounces in order to extricate himself, the mo...
FOR HE IS CAST INTO A NET BY HIS OWN FEET - He is caught in his own tricks, as if he had spread a net or dug a pitfall for another, and had fallen into it himself. The meaning is, that he would bring...
CHAPTER 18 BILDAD'S SECOND ADDRESS _ 1. New reproaches (Job 18:1)_ 2. Once again, the wicked and what they deserve (Job 18:5) Job 18:1. Bildad has the good sense in this second oration to be very br...
JOB 18. SECOND SPEECH OF BILDAD.Bildad speaks this time at unusual length, but his speech has no significance, since it simply describes the fate of the godless. Into the description of this, however,...
WALKETH. walketh habitually....
FOR HE IS CAST INTO A NET— The metaphor is taken from a beast, which the hunters have driven into the toils. He runs here and there, striving to find a way out; but the net entangles him more and more...
TEXT 18:5-21 5 YEA, THE LIGHT OF THE WICKED SHALL BE PUT OUT, And the spark of the fire shall not shine. 6 The light shall be dark in his tent, And his lamp above him shall be put out. 7 The step...
_FOR HE IS CAST INTO A NET BY HIS OWN FEET, AND HE WALKETH UPON A SNARE._ He walketh upon - rather, 'he lets himself go х_ YITHALAAK_ (H1980)] into the net' (Umbreit). If the English version be retai...
BILDAD'S SECOND SPEECH Bildad replies with a rebuke to Job and a reassertion of the miserable lot of the wicked already asserted by Eliphaz; not so much, however, with covert reference to Job, to who...
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 18 BILDAD’S SECOND SPEECH...
Bildad’s only idea in this chapter was that a wicked man is never successful. Bildad did not actually say that Job was wicked. But Bildad clearly had this opinion....
The wicked man tries to make trouble for other people. But he himself suffers from his own evil schemes. He is like a stupid hunter who walks into his own trap. Job said that God caused his troubles....
HE IS CAST INTO A NET. — Job had compared himself to one hunted by the Almighty (Job 10:16), and Bildad here describes the evil man as snared in a net, but it is one for which he has no one to thank b...
כִּֽי ־שֻׁלַּ֣ח בְּ רֶ֣שֶׁת בְּ רַגְלָ֑יו וְ
XV. A SCHEME OF WORLD RULE Job 18:1 BILDAD SPEAKS COMPOSED in the orderly parallelism of the finished _ mashal_, this speech of Bildad stands out in its strength and subtlety and, no less, in its c...
“CAST INTO A NET” Job 18:1 Bildad's second speech reveals how utterly he failed to understand Job's appeal for a divine witness and surety. Such words were _snares_ to him, Job 18:2, r.v. The deep t...
Bildad now returned to the charge, and as was the case with Eliphaz it is perfectly evident from his opening rebuke that he was speaking under a sense of annoyance. He was wounded at the wrongs done t...
For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he (f) walketh upon a snare. (f) Meaning, that the wicked are in continual danger....
_Meshes, ( maculis) or holes of the net. (Menochius) --- The more he strives to get out, the more he gets entangled. (Calmet)_...
(6) The light shall be dark in his tabernacle, and his candle shall be put out with him. (7) The steps of his strength shall be straitened, and his own counsel shall cast him down. (8) For he is cast...
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 HE IS CAST INTO A NET BY HIS OWN FEET,.... He goes into it of himself, incautious and imprudent; the counsels, schemes, and methods he takes to hurt others, issue in his own ruin; the pit he digs...
For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he walketh upon a snare. Ver. 8. _For he is cast into a net by his own feet_] Wicked men are even ambitious for destruction; judgments need not go to fi...
_He is cast into a net by his own feet_ By his own choice, design, and actions. _And he walketh upon a snare_ Or, as the words may be rendered, _runneth to and fro on the toils_, and therefore must ne...
BILDAD RECKONS JOB WITH THE HARDENED SINNERS...
For he is cast into a net by his own feet, driven by his own foolishness, he rushes to his ruin, AND HE WALKETH UPON A SNARE, over pitfalls. He foolishly thinks that he is walking upon solid ground, w...
BILDAD'S STRONG REPROOF (vv.1-3) Bildad did not learn from Job's words to be a little more considerate than before, but shows only more strong opposition, reproving Job unjustly. He considered Job's...
In verses 8-10 six different words are used for what we would call. "trap". The "net" is for catching birds or men, and the "webbing" is. light, interwoven covering over. pit. Notice the expression _b...
5-10 Bildad describes the miserable condition of a wicked man; in which there is much certain truth, if we consider that a sinful condition is a sad condition, and that sin will be men's ruin, if the...
BY HIS OWN FEET; by his own choice, and design, and actions. HE WALKETH UPON A SNARE; and therefore must needs be entangled and destroyed....
Job 18:8 cast H7971 (H8795) net H7568 feet H7272 walks H1980 (H8691) snare H7639 he is cast -...
CONTENTS: Bildad's second discourse on Job's case. CHARACTERS: God, Bildad, Job. CONCLUSION: The way of sin is a way of fear and leads to everlasting confusion, of which the present terrors of consc...
Job 18:6. _The light shall be dark in his tabernacle._ Darkness is a most ancient figure of speech for all kinds of affliction. But to good men, “the Lord will make darkness light before them.” Isaiah...
_Then answered Bildad the Shuhite._ THE DANGER OF DENOUNCING WICKEDNESS How wonderfully well the three comforters painted the portrait of wickedness! Nothing can be added to their delineation of sin....
JOB—NOTE ON JOB 18:1 Like Eliphaz, Bildad expressed his frustration (vv. Job 18:2): Who is Job to maintain his position and criticize the words of his friends? The remainder of Bildad’s response is a...
JOB—NOTE ON JOB 18:7 Bildad uses the vocabulary of a TRAP (NET, SNARE, ROPE) to argue that what Job describes as God breaking him apart (see...
_BILDAD’S SECOND SPEECH_ Bildad the bitterest and most hostile of the three friends. No speech as yet so insolent and provoking. Full of fiery scathing denunciation against—the wicked—intending, of c...
EXPOSITION JOB 18:1 Bildad's second speech is no improvement upon his first (Job 8:1.). He has evidently been exceedingly nettled by Job's contemptuous words concerning his "comforters" (Job 16:2,...
Then answered Bildad (Job 18:1), So this is Bildad's second discourse with him. How long will it be before you make an end of words? just make the mark, and afterwards we will speak. Why do you count...
1 Timothy 3:7; 1 Timothy 6:9; 2 Timothy 2:26; Esther 3:9; Esther 6:13;...
Feet — By his own designs and actions....