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Job 18:5-21
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.
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.
Verse Job 18:5. _THE LIGHT OF THE WICKED SHALL BE PUT OUT_] Some think it would be better to translate the original, "Let the light of the wicked be extinguished!" Thou art a bad man, and thou hast pe...
YEA - Truly; or, behold. Bildad here commences his remarks on the certain destiny of the wicked, and strings together a number of apparently proverbial sayings, showing that calamity in various forms...
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,...
LIGHT. The reference is to the universal practice of burning. light during the night. WICKED. lawless. Hebrew. _rasha._ App-44....
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...
YEA, THE LIGHT OF THE WICKED— _Rather let the light of the wicked be put out._ Heath....
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...
_YEA, THE LIGHT OF THE WICKED SHALL BE PUT OUT, AND THE SPARK OF HIS FIRE SHALL NOT SHINE._ That (Job 18:4) cannot be. YEA - however much the wicked kick against it. The decree of God is unalterabl...
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...
גַּ֤ם אֹ֣ור רְשָׁעִ֣ים יִדְעָ֑ךְ וְ לֹֽא ־יִ֝
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...
Yea, the light of the wicked shall be (e) put out, and the spark of his fire shall not shine. (e) When the wicked is in his prosperity, then God changes his state: and this is his ordinary working fo...
(4) He teareth himself in his anger: shall the earth be forsaken for thee? and shall the rock be removed out of his place? (5) В¶ Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out, and the spark of his fi...
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...
YEA, THE LIGHT OF THE WICKED SHALL BE PUT OUT,.... Or "nevertheless" m; notwithstanding all this disregard and inattention to us, and contempt of us, and all the rage, and wrath, and pride, and haught...
Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out, and the spark of his fire shall not shine. Ver. 5. _Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out_] The ensuing description of a wicked man's unhappines...
_Yea_ Depend upon it, the thing is true and certain, notwithstanding thy dissatisfaction and opposition to it; _the light of the wicked shall be put out_ All their glory and felicity shall perish: _an...
Yea, that is, in spite of all Job's ranting, THE LIGHT OF THE WICKED SHALL BE PUT OUT, his prosperity utterly destroyed, AND THE SPARK OF HIS FIRE SHALL NOT SHINE, the flames of his snug and safe hear...
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...
"INDEED": Notice Bildad's absolute confidence that such things always happen to the wicked in this life-and Job fits in that class. Obviously things are not true just because someone sincerely believe...
5-10 Bildad describes the miserable condition of a wicked man; in which there is much certain truth, if we consider that a sinful condition is a sad condition, and that sin will be men's ruin, if the...
YEA; the thing is true and certain, notwithstanding thy dissatisfaction and opposition against it. THE LIGHT OF THE WICKED SHALL BE PUT OUT; all their glory and felicity shall perish. THE SPARK OF HIS...
Job 18:5 light H216 wicked H7563 out H1846 (H8799) flame H7632 fire H784 shine H5050 (H8799) the light -...
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...
_The light of the wicked shall be put out._ --The reference is to a lamp that was suspended from the ceiling. The Arabians are fond of this image. Thus they say, “Bad fortune has extinguished my lamp....
_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 18:5 Bildad is likely responding to Job with the repeated images of the LIGHT OF THE WICKED (FLAME, LAMP) going DARK ...
_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...
Isaiah 50:11; Job 20:5; Proverbs 13:9; Proverbs 20:20; Proverbs 24:20