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Verse Job 8:19. _BEHOLD THIS_ IS _THE JOY OF HIS WAY_] A strong
irony. Here is the issue of all his mirth, of his sports, games, and
pastimes! See the unfeeling, domineering, polluting and polluted
s...
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BEHOLD, THIS IS THE JOY OF HIS WAY - This is evidently sarcastic.
“Lo! such is the joy of his course! He boasts of joy, as all
hypocrites do, but his joy endures only for a little time. This is the
en...
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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)...
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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...
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BEHOLD. Figure of speech _Asterismos._
IS. Supply "ends" instead of "is"....
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A new figure of a spreading, luxuriant plant, suddenly destroyed, and
leaving not a trace of itself behind.
_before the sun_ This scarcely means _openly_, in broad day and in the
face of the sun, but...
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The moral wisdom of the ancients
Bildad, having laid down his moral principle, invites Job to reflect
that it is a principle resting on the research and the generalized
experience of men of generatio...
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_joy of his way way_may be "fate," as often, and the words would be
ironical; or "way" may be "course of life" so ends what was to him the
joy of his course of life.
_shall others grow_ Or, _do other...
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BEHOLD, THIS IS THE JOY OF HIS WAY, &C.— _Behold him now;
destruction is in his path; and strangers out of the dust shall spring
up in his room._ Heath....
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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...
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_BEHOLD, THIS IS THE JOY OF HIS WAY, AND OUT OF THE EARTH SHALL OTHERS
GROW._
Behold, is the joy of his way. Bitter irony. The hypocrite boasts of
joy. This then is his "joy" at the last.
AND OUT OF...
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THE JOY OF HIS WAY] the short-lived prosperity of the sinner. OTHERS
GROW] who fill his place....
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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...
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Bildad explained his ideas with three stories.
• The first story is about plants that grow near the river (verses
11-13). Without water, such plants die quickly. Such plants are like
people who do no...
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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...
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הֶן ־ה֭וּא מְשֹׂ֣ושׂ דַּרְכֹּ֑ו וּ֝
מֵ עָפָ֗ר
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Behold, this [is] the joy (l) of his way, and out of the earth shall
others grow.
(l) To be planted in another place, where it may grow as it pleases....
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(10) Shall not they teach thee, and tell thee, and utter words out of
their heart? (11) Can the rush grow up without mire? can the flag grow
without water? (12) Whilst it is yet in his greenness, and...
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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...
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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...
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BEHOLD, THIS [IS] THE JOY OF HIS WAY,.... Of the state and condition
of the hypocrite, who, while he is in outward prosperity, exults and
rejoices, but his joy is but short, it is but for a moment,
J...
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Behold, this [is] the joy of his way, and out of the earth shall
others grow.
Ver. 19. _Behold, this is the joy of his way_] _q.d._ A goodly joy!
sure the hypocrite's joy is but the hypocrisy of joy,...
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_Behold, this is the joy of his way_ Or, rather, _This is the way of
his joy:_ it all ends in this: this is the issue of his flourishing
state. He falls into heavy calamities, from which he can never...
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An Accusation of Wickedness against Job.
Bildad was convinced that Job was, in some way, guilty of some special
great transgression against the Lord, that his present affliction was
the punishment fo...
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Behold, this is the joy of his way, thus his pretended joyful way of
living comes to a sudden, disastrous end, AND OUT OF THE EARTH SHALL
OTHERS GROW, out of the dust other men blessed with external
p...
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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, how...
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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...
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This is the joyful and happy issue of the flourishing course, state,
and condition (which is frequently called a way) of this tree, or of
the hypocrite, manifestly represented by it, and expressed JOB...
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Job 8:19 joy H4885 way H1870 earth H6083 others H312 grow H6779
(H8799)
this is the joy - Job 20:5;...
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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...
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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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JOB—NOTE ON JOB 8:1 Bildad is the second friend to “comfort”
Job.
⇐ ⇔...
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JOB—NOTE ON JOB 8:11 PAPYRUS and REEDS grow quickly in the wetlands,
but they are also very vulnerable. They need a constant supply of
water. Other plants are deeply rooted in rocky soil, but they can...
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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...
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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 relativ...
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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...
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1 Samuel 2:8; Ezekiel 17:24; Job 20:5; Matthew 13:20; Matthew 13:21;...
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Behold — This is the issue of the flourishing state. This all his
joy comes to. And, &c. — Out of the same earth or place shall
another tree grow....