Job 8:8
What meaning of the job 8:8 in the Bible?
What does Job 8:8 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"For enquire, I pray thee, of the former age, and prepare thyself to the search of their fathers:"
What does Job 8:8 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"For enquire, I pray thee, of the former age, and prepare thyself to the search of their fathers:"
Verse Job 8:8. _INQUIRE - OF THE FORMER AGE_] לדור רישון _ledor rishon_, of the _first age_; of the _patriarchs_; the first generation of men that dwelt upon the earth: not of the _age that was just p...
FOR INQUIRE THEE OF THE FORMER AGE - That is, attend to the results of observation. Ask the generations which have passed, and who in their poems and proverbs have left the records of their experience...
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) Job 8:1. Bildad the Shuhite now speaks...
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...
_prepare thyself to the search_ i. e., give heed to the research, or, to that which their fathers have searched out. By referring to a former age, and then to the fathers of that age or generation, Bi...
DISCOURSE: 457 BILDAD WARNS JOB OF THE DANGER OF HYPOCRISY Job 8:8. _Inquire, I pray thee, of the former age, and prepare thyself to the search of their fathers: (for we are but of yesterday, and kno...
FOR INQUIRE, I PRAY THEE, &C.— Bildad had exhorted Job to apply himself to God by prayer, upon the assurance, that if he were innocent, as he pretended, or shewed any marks of a sincere repentance, th...
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...
_FOR INQUIRE, I PRAY THEE, OF THE FORMER AGE, AND PREPARE THYSELF TO THE SEARCH OF THEIR FATHERS:_ The former age - the age immediately preceding Job. THEIR FATHERS - the fathers pricking that age,...
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...
כִּֽי ־שְׁאַל ־נָ֭א לְ דֹ֣ר רִישֹׁ֑ון וְ֝ כֹונֵ֗ן לְ חֵ֣קֶר אֲבֹותָֽם׃...
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...
For (e) enquire, I pray thee, of the former age, and prepare thyself to the search of their fathers: (e) He wills Job to examine all antiquity and he will find it true which he here says....
(1) В¶ Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said, (2) How long wilt thou speak these things? and how long shall the words of thy mouth be like a strong wind? (3) Doth God pervert judgment? or doth th...
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...
FOR INQUIRE, I PRAY THEE, OF THE FORMER AGE,.... With respect to the truth of what he had said, or should say; he does not desire Job to take his word for it, but inquire how it was in former times; b...
For enquire, I pray thee, of the former age, and prepare thyself to the search of their fathers: Ver. 8. _For enquire, I pray thee_] Bildad speaks fairly, as Eliphaz had done, whom he all along imita...
Job 8:8. "For inquire, I pray thee, of the former age, and prepare thyself for the search of the fathers." The people of God that lived before there was any written revelation, depended very much upon...
_For inquire, &c., of the former age_ That is, of our predecessors, who had the advantage of longer life and more experience, besides more frequent revelations from God than we have. They also will be...
For enquire, I pray thee, of the former age, generations of men which have gone before, AND PREPARE THYSELF TO THE SEARCH OF THEIR FATHERS, searching through the annals of history, finding out what th...
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, ho...
"PLEASE INQUIRE OF PAST GENERATIONS": Eliphaz had supported his viewpoint by appealing to his own experiences (Job 4:8). Bildad sought to appeal to. higher authority, that is observations made by peop...
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...
OF THE FORMER AGE, i.e. of our predecessors, who had the advantage of longer life and more experience, besides more frequent revelations from God, than we have; who also will be more impartial judges...
Job 8:8 inquire H7592 (H8798) former H7223 (H8675) H7223 age H1755 consider H3559 (H8786) discovered H2714 fathers H1 inquire - Job 12:12, Job 15:10, Job 15:18, Job 32:6-7;...
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...
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_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 relati...
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...
1 Corinthians 10:11; Deuteronomy 32:7; Deuteronomy 4:32; Isaiah 38:19; Job 12:12; Job 15:10; Job 15:18; Job 32:6; Job 32:7; Psalms 44:1;...
Search — Seriously and industriously search the ancient records....