Geneva Study Bible Commentary
Job 18:15
It shall dwell in his tabernacle, because [it is] none of his: (l) brimstone shall be scattered upon his habitation.
(l) Though all the world would favour him, yet God would destroy him and his.
It shall dwell in his tabernacle, because [it is] none of his: (l) brimstone shall be scattered upon his habitation.
(l) Though all the world would favour him, yet God would destroy him and his.
Verse Job 18:15. _IT SHALL DWELL IN HIS TABERNACLE_] _Desolation_ is here _personified_, and it is said that it shall be the inhabitant, its former owner being destroyed. _Brimstone shall be scattered...
IT SHALL DWELL IN HIS TABERNACLE - It is uncertain what is to be understood as referred to here. Some suppose that the word to be understood is soul, and that the meaning is “his soul,” that is, he hi...
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,...
IT: i.e. every one of the terrors. NONE OF HIS. not, indeed, his own....
The extinction of his name and race....
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...
The sense probably is, There shall dwell in his tent they that are not his, Brimstone shall be showered upon his habitation. So Conant excellently. The two clauses of the verse are not to be taken...
IT SHALL DWELL IN HIS TABERNACLE— _They shall take up their habitation in his tent, because he hath no survivor: brimstone shall be sprinkled upon his habitation._ As much as to say, "Since he hath no...
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...
_IT SHALL DWELL IN HIS TABERNACLE, BECAUSE IT IS NONE OF HIS: BRIMSTONE SHALL BE SCATTERED UPON HIS HABITATION._ It - terror shall haunt, etc.; and not, as Umbreit, another, which the last clause dis...
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’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....
When Bildad talked about the man’s tent, he did not simply mean a home. He also meant the man’s life. A tent may seem to be a good home. But a tent is temporary. So a wicked man’s life is like a tent....
IT SHALL DWELL IN HIS TABERNACLE. — Or, “There shall dwell in his tent they that are none of his,” or “which is no longer his”: _i.e.,_ terrors shall dwell, or, “which is none of his” may hint that it...
תִּשְׁכֹּ֣ון בְּ֭ אָהֳלֹו מִ בְּלִי ־לֹ֑ו יְז
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...
_Tent, when he is gone to purify it. Et veniat quæ lustret anus lectumque locumque,_ Præferat et tremula sulphur et ova manu. (Ovid, Art.) --- Yet Moses does not mention sulphur as a thing proper fo...
(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...
IT SHALL DWELL IN HIS TABERNACLE,.... What shall dwell in it is not said; there are various conjectures about it, and different supplements are made; the Targum is, "his wife shall dwell in a taberna...
It shall dwell in his tabernacle, because [it is] none of his: brimstone shall be scattered upon his habitation. Ver. 15. _It shall dwell in his tabernacles, because it is none of his_] Heb. Not his;...
_It shall dwell in his tabernacle_ Destruction, expressed Job 18:12, shall fix its abode with him. _Because it is none of his_ Because it is none of his own, being got from others by deceit or violenc...
It shall dwell in his tabernacle, because it is none of his, literally, "There lives in his tent what is none of his," strange beings making their dwelling there, wild beasts or specters of horror; BR...
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...
"THERE DWELLS IN HIS TENT NOTHING OF HIS": His possessions pass on to others (Ecclesiastes 2:18f), or are removed by God's judgment. The use of the term "brimstone" may either refer to the practice of...
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...
IT, i.e. destruction, expressed JOB 18:12, and designed by this particle _it_, JOB 18:13, shall not come upon him and his for a season, for then there might be some hopes of recovery; but it shall fix...
Job 18:15 dwell H7931 (H8799) tent H168 none H1097 Brimstone H1614 scattered H2219 (H8792) dwelling H5116...
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...
Deuteronomy 29:23; Genesis 19:24; Habakkuk 2:6; Isaiah 34:10; I
It — Destruction, expressed Job 18:12, shall fix its abode with him. Because — Because it is none of his own, being got from others by deceit or violence. Brimstone — It shall be utterly destroyed, as...