Darby's translation notes (1890)
Job 8:17
8:17 stoneheap; (e-7) Or 'well.' stones. (f-13) That is, 'his roots go down far below the upper soil.'
8:17 stoneheap; (e-7) Or 'well.' stones. (f-13) That is, 'his roots go down far below the upper soil.'
HIS ROOTS ARE WRAPPED ABOUT THE HEAP - There has been great diversity of opinion in the interpretation of this passage. Jerome renders it, “over the heap of stones his roots are condensed.” Walton, “_...
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 HEAP. a spring, or fountain, as in Song of Solomon 4:12. Hebrew. _gal._ Plural in Joshua 15:19, &c. SEETH. overlooks: i.e. overtops. PLACE. house....
_seeth the place of stones_ This translation can hardly mean that in his high growth he looks down upon the stone heap, or bends over it, but rather that he chooses it, fixes himself upon it. Others p...
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...
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...
HIS ROOTS ARE WRAPPED ABOUT THE HEAP— Heath renders it, _He windeth his roots about a spring; he twisteth himself about a heap of stones._ Houbigant reads it, _he has his roots involved_ or _fixed in...
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...
_HIS ROOTS ARE WRAPPED ABOUT THE HEAP, AND SEETH THE PLACE OF STONES._ Seeth the place of stones - Hebrew 'the house of stones' - i:e., clambers up to the top of the wall surrounding the garden (Umbr...
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...
HEAP] The Heb. also means 'fountain,' and possibly the sense may be that the plant lives in the stone erection over the fountain in the garden....
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...
HIS ROOTS ARE WRAPPED ABOUT. — This is the cause of his continual luxuriance, that his roots receive moisture from below, where they are wrapped about the spring which fertilises them underneath; they...
עַל ־גַּ֭ל שָֽׁרָשָׁ֣יו יְסֻבָּ֑כוּ בֵּ֖ית אֲבָנִ֣ים...
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...
HIS ROOTS ARE WRAPPED ABOUT THE HEAP,.... The heap of stones where the tree stands; it strikes its roots among them, and implicates and twists them about them, and secures itself and grows up notwiths...
His roots are wrapped about the heap, [and] seeth the place of stones. Ver. 17. _His roots are wrapped about the heap, &c._] _i.e._ They are deeply intrenched, and strongly incorporated into the grou...
_His roots are wrapped about the heap_ Heath renders this, _He windeth his roots about a spring; he twisteth himself about a heap of stones:_ and he approves a slight alteration of the text made by Ho...
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...
His roots are wrapped about the heap, taking hold in piles of stones, AND SEETH THE PLACE OF STONES, having entwined himself between the stones by means of all his shoots, so that he embraces the enti...
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...
ABOUT THE HEAP, to wit, of stones, which word may be here understood out of the latter branch of the verse, as is very usual in Scripture use. This circumstance of the tree is added to signify, either...
Job 8:17 roots H8328 around H5440 (H8792) heap H1530 look H2372 (H8799) place H1004 stones H68 roots -...
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...
Isaiah 40:24; Isaiah 5:24; Jeremiah 12:1; Jeremiah 12:2; Job 18:16;...
Heap — Of stones. This circumstance is added, to signify its firmness and strength, that it was not in loose and sandy ground, which a violent wind might overthrow, but in solid ground, within which w...