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 whose case the description is largely unsuitable, as in answer to his impeachment of God's moral govern... [ Continue Reading ]
RV 'How long will ye lay snares for words'; i.e. hunt for arguments. MARK] RV 'consider (the matter).'... [ Continue Reading ]
Cp. Job 17:2; Job 17:4; Job 17:10. 4A. RV 'Thou that tearest thyself in thine anger,' a rebuke to Job's rash utterance in Job 16:9. SHALL THE EARTH, etc.] Did Job imagine that God's universal law that sin must be followed by suffering would be reversed in his case, because of bis expressions of ind... [ Continue Reading ]
GIN] i.e. trap. The word was originally 'grinne.' 9B. RV 'a snare shall lay hold on him.'... [ Continue Reading ]
DRIVE HIM TO HIS FEET] RV 'chase him at his heels.'... [ Continue Reading ]
HUNGER-BITTEN] exhausted by hunger.... [ Continue Reading ]
STRENGTH OF HIS SKIN] RV 'members of his body.' FIRSTBORN OF DEATH] i.e. a deadly disease. 14A. Render, 'He shall be rooted out of the tent he trusted was his own.' KING OF TERRORS] death. 15A. RV 'There shall dwell in his tent that which is none of his,' i.e. his possessions will pass into the ha... [ Continue Reading ]
NO NAME IN THE STREET] he is quite forgotten.... [ Continue Reading ]
NEPHEW] RV 'son's son.'... [ Continue Reading ]
Render, 'They of the west shall be astonished at his day (i.e. fate), and horror shall seize those on the east.' His name will be a byword throughout the world.... [ Continue Reading ]