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Job 18:3
Wherefore are we counted as beasts, as the brute, a harsh allusion to 17:4-10, and reputed vile in your sight, regarded as stubborn blockheads by Job?
Wherefore are we counted as beasts, as the brute, a harsh allusion to 17:4-10, and reputed vile in your sight, regarded as stubborn blockheads by Job?
Verse Job 18:3. _COUNTED AS BEASTS_] Thou treatest us as if we had neither reason nor understanding....
WHEREFORE ARE WE COUNTED AS BEASTS? - “Why are we treated in your remarks as if we had no sense, and were unworthy of sound argument in reply to what we say?” It is possible that there may be referenc...
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,...
WHEREFORE... ? Figure of speech _Erotesis._ App-6. VILE: or, stupid. YOUR SIGHT. Septuagint and Syriac read "thine eyes"....
_and reputed vile_ lit. _and are unclean_. Bildad describes what Job's treatment of his friends suggests to him as Job's idea of them. The reference is to the passages, ch. Job 17:4; Job 17:10, and th...
WHEREFORE ARE WE COUNTED AS BEASTS? &C.— This refers to the 10th verse in the former chapter, where Job had, indeed, treated them very freely....
C. THE GRANDEUR AND MISERY OF MAN OR IMPOSSIBILITY OF SELF-JUSTIFICATION (Job 18:1-21) 1. Sharp rebuke of Job (Job 18:1-4) TEXT 18:1-4 1 THEN ANSWERED BILDAD THE SHUHITE, AND SAID, 2 How long wi...
_WHEREFORE ARE WE COUNTED AS BEASTS, AND REPUTED VILE IN YOUR SIGHT?_ Beasts - alluding to what Job said (Job 12:7; so Isaiah 1:3; Psalms 49:12; P
18:3 stupid (k-9) Or 'unclean.'...
Cp. Job 17:2; Job 17:4; Job 17:10. 4A. RV 'Thou that tearest thyself in thine anger,' a rebuke to Job's rash utterance in Job 16:9. SHALL THE EARTH, etc.] Did Job i
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...
It seems that Job did not speak quietly. He felt strong emotions. Bildad thought that Job was angry. But Bildad thought that his own opinion was important. He did not want Job to interrupt. So Bildad...
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...
WHEREFORE ARE WE COUNTED AS BEASTS. — Referring to Job’s words (Job 13:4, &c., Job 16:2, &c.). In this chapter there is a marked increase in his harshness and violence. It has, however, a certain rese...
מַ֭דּוּעַ נֶחְשַׁ֣בְנוּ כַ † בְּהֵמָ֑ה נִ֝טְמִ֗ינוּ בְּ...
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...
_Reputed. Septuagint, "silent as four-footed animals before thee? (Haydock) without discipline or understanding," chap. xvii. 4. (Menochius)_...
(1) В¶ Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said, (2) How long will it be ere ye make an end of words? mark, and afterwards we will speak. (3) Wherefore are we counted as beasts, and reputed vile in...
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...
WHEREFORE ARE WE COUNTED AS BEASTS,.... This seems to refer to Job 12:7; where Job sends them to the beasts, to get knowledge and instruction; and therefore it was concluded he reckoned them as such,...
Wherefore are we counted as beasts, [and] reputed vile in your sight? Ver. 3. _Wherefore are we counted as beasts, &c._] Here he taxeth Job with pride and arrogance; grounding upon those words of his...
_Wherefore are we counted as beasts?_ That is, ignorant and stupid men, Job 17:4; Job 17:10; _and reputed vile in your sight_ Hebrew, נשׂמנו, _nitmeinu, polluted_ or _unclean;_ that is, not fit to be...
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...
Job had noted that the wild animals understood more about the topic of undeserved suffering than his friends did (Job 12:7-9), and Bildad is insulted by such. claim....
1-4 Bildad had before given Job good advice and encouragement; here he used nothing but rebukes, and declared his ruin. And he concluded that Job shut out the providence of God from the management of...
AS BEASTS, i.e. ignorant, blockish, and stupid men, JOB 17:4,10. VILE, Heb. _polluted_, or _unclean_, i.e. not fit to be conversed or discoursed with; or contemptible, as such things are. IN YOUR SIGH...
Job 18:3 counted H2803 (H8738) beasts H929 stupid H2933 (H8738) sight H5869 Wherefore - Job 12:7-8,
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...
_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...
Ecclesiastes 3:18; Job 12:7; Job 12:8; Job 17:10; Job 17:4;...
Beasts — Ignorant, and stupid men, Job 17:4, Job 17:10....