Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
Job 18:18
Verse Job 18:18. He shall be driven from light] He shall be taken off by a violent death.
And chased out of the world.] The wicked is DRIVEN AWAY in his iniquity. This shows his reluctance to depart from life.
Verse Job 18:18. He shall be driven from light] He shall be taken off by a violent death.
And chased out of the world.] The wicked is DRIVEN AWAY in his iniquity. This shows his reluctance to depart from life.
HE SHALL BE DRIVEN FROM LIGHT INTO DARKNESS - Margin, “They shall drive him.” The meaning is, that he should be driven from a state of prosperity to one of calamity. AND CHASED OUT OF THE WORLD - Perh...
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...
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,...
Men's horror of his fate and memory. Bildad now introduces the moral instinct of mankind and the part it takes in the sinner's downfall. The words go back somewhat on the ideas of the previous verses...
_He shall be driven_ lit. _they shall drive_(or, they drive) _him_. The subject is mankind, men; and the sinner himself is referred to, hardly, his name (Job 18:17)....
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...
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...
_HE SHALL BE DRIVEN FROM LIGHT INTO DARKNESS, AND CHASED OUT OF THE WORLD._ Light ... darkness - existence-nonexistence....
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...
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...
Bildad thought that Job was wicked. So Bildad warned Job. Nobody would remember Job after his death. Job had no children alive (Job 1:18-19). Job trusted God to prove that Job was innocent (Job 16:18-...
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....
יֶ֭הְדְּפֻהוּ מֵ אֹ֣ור אֶל ־חֹ֑שֶׁךְ וּֽ מִ
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...
“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...
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...
He shall be driven from (m) light into darkness, and chased out of the world. (m) He will fall from prosperity to adversity....
(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...
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 BE DRIVEN FROM LIGHT INTO DARKNESS,.... Either from the light of outward prosperity, formerly enjoyed by him, into the darkness of adversity; or rather from the light of the living, the light...
He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world. Ver. 18. _He shall be driven out of light into darkness_] Heb. They shall drive him; _sc._ the devils shall drive him out of...
_His roots shall be dried up_, &c. That is, he shall be destroyed, both root and branch; both himself and his posterity. _His remembrance shall perish_ Instead of that honour and renown which he desig...
He shall be driven from light into darkness, out of the happiness of life into the misery of death, AND CHASED OUT OF THE WORLD, excluded forever from the habitations of men....
BILDAD RECKONS JOB WITH THE HARDENED SINNERS...
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...
HE SHALL BE DRIVEN: _ Heb._ they shall drive him...
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...
HE SHALL BE DRIVEN, Heb. _they shall drive him_, i.e. his enemies, or those whom he hath oppressed; or they whom God shall appoint to do it, whether angels or men. Or it is an impersonal speech, and t...
Job 18:18 driven H1920 (H8799) light H216 darkness H2822 chased H5074 (H8686) world H8398 He shall be driven - Heb. They shall drive him,...
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...
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...
_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....
JOB—NOTE ON JOB 18:1 Like Eliphaz, Bildad expressed his frustration (vv. Job 18:2): Who is Job to maintain his position and criticize the words of his friends? The remainder of Bildad’s response is a...
JOB—NOTE ON JOB 18:14 Bildad refers throughout these verses to the destruction of both the house and the household of the wicked (both of which Job has endured; Job 1:13) to assert that Job’s circumst...
_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...
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,...
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...
Daniel 4:33; Daniel 5:21; Isaiah 17:13; Isaiah 17:14; Isaiah 8:21;...
Darkness — From a prosperous life to disgrace and misery, and to the grave, the land of darkness....