if he destroy him The subject is God. The words might be rendered, if he be(when he is) destroyed. This is perhaps better, as the plant is spoken of. The point of the verse is not who destroys him, but that he is destroyed, and when destroyed utterly disappears, so that his place says, I never saw thee. In spite of his luxuriance and hold of the soil he is suddenly and wholly swept away and his place denies ever having known him.
Verse Job 8:18. _IF HE DESTROY HIM FROM HIS PLACE_] Is not this a plain reference to the _alienation of his inheritance_? God destroys him from it; it becomes the property of another; and on his revi...
IF HE DESTROY HIM FROM HIS PLACE - The particle here which is rendered “if (אם _'ı̂m_) is often used to denote emphasis, and means here “certainly” - “he shall be certainly destroyed.” The word render...
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...
HIM... IT. See translation, below: "him" and "it" refer to the tree....
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...
_IF HE DESTROY HIM FROM HIS PLACE, THEN IT SHALL DENY HIM, SAYING, I HAVE NOT SEEN THEE._ If he destroy him from his place, then it shall deny him. If (as may happen at any moment when he seems most...
8:18 he (g-2) i.e. God. destroy (h-3) Lit. 'swallow up.'...
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...
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...
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...
אִם ־יְבַלְּעֶ֥נּוּ מִ מְּקֹומֹ֑ו וְ כִ֥חֶשׁ...
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...
If he destroy him from his place, then [it] shall (k) deny him, [saying], I have not seen thee. (k) That is, so that there remains nothing there to prove whether the tree had grown there or not....
(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...
IF HE DESTROY HIM FROM HIS PLACE,.... If the sun when he is risen strikes the tree with such vehement heat that it withers and utterly perishes from the place where it grew; or roots it up, so the Tar...
If he destroy him from his place, then [it] shall deny him, [saying], I have not seen thee. Ver. 18. _If he destroy him from his place_] If he stub up this green tree, no better surely than the cypar...
_If he_, &c. Namely, God, who is the saviour of good men and the destroyer of the wicked; _destroy him from his place_ When God blasts him and plucks him up; _then it shall deny him_ That is, the plac...
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...
If he destroy him from his place, namely, if the Lord takes his prosperity from him, THEN IT, the former place of his happiness, SHALL DENY HIM, SAYING, I HAVE NOT SEEN THEE, his very native ground de...
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...
In fact, the godless man is uprooted and others simply take his place. Hence Job, the once prosperous man, has been uprooted and others are taking his place....
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...
IF HE; either God, who is the Saviour of good men, and the Destroyer of the wicked; or the owner; or any other man; for this is an indefinite speech, and may be taken passively and impersonally; which...
Job 8:18 destroyed H1104 (H8762) place H4725 deny H3584 (H8765) seen H7200 (H8804) he -...
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...
Job 20:9; Job 7:10; Psalms 37:10; Psalms 37:36; Psalms 73:18;...
He — God, who is the saviour of good men, and the destroyer of the wicked. It — The place; to which denying him, and seeing him, are here ascribed figuratively. Not seen — He shall be so utterly extir...