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TERRORS SHALL MAKE HIM AFRAID - He shall be constantly subject to
alarms, and shall never feel secure. “Terrors here are represented
as allegorical persons, like the Furies in the Greek poets.” Noyes....
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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...
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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,...
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DRIVE HIM TO HIS FEET. follow at his feet. Compare 1 Samuel 25:42....
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This verse does not seem to give a picture of the sinner's conscience,
but rather of his consciousness at last. The preceding verses
described how he walked on snares unwitting that they were there; n...
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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 instrum...
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The disastrous end of the wicked, in the moral order of the world, is
certain
The last verse naturally led over to this idea, which is the theme of
the speech. The idea is set out in a great variety...
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AND SHALL DRIVE HIM TO HIS FEET— _And shall be spread around at his
feet_] Houbigant. The same metaphor seems to be continued....
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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...
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_TERRORS SHALL MAKE HIM AFRAID ON EVERY SIDE, AND SHALL DRIVE HIM TO
HIS FEET._
Terrors - often mentioned in this book (Job 18:14; Job 24:17, etc.)
The terrors excited through an evil conscience are...
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DRIVE HIM TO HIS FEET] RV 'chase him at his heels.'...
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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...
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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...
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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....
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Bildad described something terrible that chases the wicked man. Bildad
did not actually say that he was thinking about a wild animal.
So the wild animal is just a description of the wicked man’s
trou...
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SHALL DRIVE HIM TO HIS FEET. — Comp. Job 15:21. One feels very much
tempted to understand this, as the English undoubtedly suggests,
_shall startle him to his feet,_ but the true meaning is, more
prob...
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סָ֭בִיב בִּֽעֲתֻ֣הוּ בַלָּהֹ֑ות וֶ
הֱפִיצֻ֥הוּ לְ...
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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...
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“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...
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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...
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_Fears. Hunters used to place loose feathers round the wood, except
where the gin was laid, in order to frighten the prey into it.
Puniceæque agitant formidine pennæ. (Georg. iii.)_
(Jeremias xlviii....
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(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...
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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...
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TERRORS SHALL MAKE HIM AFRAID ON EVERY SIDE,.... Make him a
"Magormissabib", or "terror on every side", as Pashur was a terror to
himself, Jeremiah 20:3, and all his friends about him; these terrors
m...
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_Terrors shall make him afraid on every side, and shall drive him to
his feet._
Ver. 11. _Terrors shall make him afraid on every side_] These terrors
are, as it were, the cruel sergeants and merciles...
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_Terrors shall make him afraid_ Both from men and from God, and also
from his own unquiet mind and guilty conscience. _And drive him to his
feet_ Shall force him to flee different ways, being safe now...
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Terrors shall make him afraid on every side, fearful thoughts, as sent
upon the wicked by God, to disturb him, AND SHALL DRIVE HIM TO HIS
FEET, pursuing and searing him with every step that he takes,...
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BILDAD RECKONS JOB WITH THE HARDENED SINNERS...
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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...
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DRIVE HIM:
_ Heb._ scatter him...
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As. result of all these imminent dangers facing the wicked such.
person is continually frightened and fearful (Proverbs 28:1)....
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11-21 Bildad describes the destruction wicked people are kept for, in
the other world, and which in some degree, often seizes them in this
world. The way of sin is the way of fear, and leads to everl...
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TERRORS; both from men, and from God, and from his own unquiet mind
and guilty conscience. SHALL DRIVE HIM TO HIS FEET; shall force him to
flee hither and thither, and he knows not whither, being secu...
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Job 18:11 Terrors H1091 frighten H1204 (H8765) side H5439 drive H6327
(H8689) feet H7272
Terrors -...
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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...
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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...
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_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....
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_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...
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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,...
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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...
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2 Corinthians 5:11; 2 Kings 7:6; 2 Kings 7:7; Jeremiah 20:3; Jerem