Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible
Job 8:15
He shall lean upon his house— He may prop up his house, but it shall not stand: he may make himself strong in it, but it shall not endure. Heath, after the LXX.
He shall lean upon his house— He may prop up his house, but it shall not stand: he may make himself strong in it, but it shall not endure. Heath, after the LXX.
Verse Job 8:15. _HE SHALL LEAN UPON HIS HOUSE_] This is all allusion to the spider. When he suspects his web, here called his _house_, to be frail or unsure, he leans upon it in different parts, prop...
HE SHALL LEAN UPON HIS HOUSE - This is an allusion to the web or house of the spider. The hope of the hypocrite is called the house which he has built for himself; his home, his refuge, his support. B...
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...
_hold it fast_ i. e. _hold fast by it_. The meaning of course is not that he tries to uphold his house, but that he tries to support himself by holding on to it. This is true both of the spider and th...
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...
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...
_HE SHALL LEAN UPON HIS HOUSE, BUT IT SHALL NOT STAND: HE SHALL HOLD IT FAST, BUT IT SHALL NOT ENDURE._ He shall hold it fast - implying his eager grasp, when the storm of trial comes. As the spider...
HOLD IT FAST] RV 'hold fast thereby.' 16-18. The sinner is compared to a fastgrowing weed which flourishes under the heat of the sun, and whose roots plant themselves firmly in the earth (SEETH THE P...
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...
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...
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...
IT SHALL NOT ENDURE. — The description of the wicked man ends here....
יִשָּׁעֵ֣ן עַל ־בֵּ֭יתֹו וְ לֹ֣א יַעֲמֹ֑ד יַח
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...
_He. The spider, or rather the hypocrite, who will not be able to screen himself, by his possessions, from the wrath of God. (Calmet)_...
(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...
HE SHALL LEAN UPON HIS HOUSE,.... Either the spider or the hypocrite, or the hypocrite as the spider; that is, that which is the ground of his confidence, which is as the spider's house, on that he sh...
He shall lean upon his house, but it shall not stand: he shall hold it fast, but it shall not endure. Ver. 15. _He shall lean upon his house_] The spider shall, so Vatablus taketh it; but better, the...
_He shall lean upon his house_ He shall trust to the multitude and strength of his children and servants, and to his wealth, all which come under the name of a man's _house_ in Scripture. _But it shal...
He shall lean upon his house, thinking that his possessions, the object of his trust, are secure, BUT IT SHALL NOT STAND; HE SHALL HOLD IT FAST, as he feels it collapsing beneath his weight, BUT IT SH...
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...
The term "house" here includes, his family, establishment, and resources. "Bildad insinuated that Job was depending on his possessions for his security" _(Zuck p. 45)._ Bildad then compares the godles...
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...
HE, either the spider, or rather, the wicked man signified by it, SHALL LEAN UPON HIS HOUSE, i.e. he shall trust to the multitude and strength of his children and servants. and to his wealth, all whic...
Job 8:15 leans H8172 (H8735) house H1004 stand H5975 (H8799) holds H2388 (H8686) endure H6965 ...
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 18:14; Job 27:18; Luke 6:47; Matthew 7:24; Proverbs 10:28;...
House — He shall trust to the multitude of his children and servants, and to his wealth, all which come under the name of a man's house in scripture. Hold it — To uphold himself by it. But his web, th...