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Job 8:18

If he destroy him from his place, then it shall deny him, saying, I have not seen thee.

If he destroy him from his place, then it shall deny him. If (as may happen at any moment when he seems most secure) He [God] tear him away [the English version, destroy; properly, to tear away and violently, baala` (H1104)] from his place, "then it (the place personified) shall deny him." "The place thereof shall know it no more" (Psalms 103:16). The very soil is ashamed of the weeds lying withered on its surface, as though it never had been connected with them. So, when the godless falls from prosperity, his nearest friends disown him. Bildad thus justifies the conduct of the friends toward Job.

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  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

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  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

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  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

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  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

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  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

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  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

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  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

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  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

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