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Job 18:7-10

JOB—NOTE ON Job 18:7 Bildad uses the vocabulary of a trap (net, snare, rope) to argue that what Job describes as God breaking him apart (see Job 16:7) is better described as Job suffering the consequences of his own sin.

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See also Job 18:7-10 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Job 18:7. _THE STEPS OF HIS STRENGTH_] Even in his greatest prosperity he shall be in straits and difficulties. _HIS OWN COUNSEL_] He shall be the dupe and the victim of his own airy, ambitious...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    THE STEPS OF HIS STRENGTH - Strong steps. “Steps of strength” is a Hebraism, to denote firm or vigorous steps. SHALL BE STRAITENED - Shall be compressed, embarrassed, hindered. Instead of walking free...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    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,...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    STEPS OF HIS STRENGTH. his firm step. Genitive of character. App-17....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Another figure for the same thought. His firm, wide steps of prosperity and security, when he walked in a wide place (Psalms 4:1), become narrowed and hampered. Widening of the steps is a usual Orient...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    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...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    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...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _THE STEPS OF HIS STRENGTH SHALL BE STRAITENED, AND HIS OWN COUNSEL SHALL CAST HIM DOWN._ Steps of ... strength - Hebrew for his strong steps. A firm step marks health. To be straitened in steps is t...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    The wicked man tries to make trouble for other people. But he himself suffers from his own evil schemes. He is like a stupid hunter who walks into his own trap. Job said that God caused his troubles....

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    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....

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    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...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    THE STEPS OF HIS STRENGTH. — _i.e._, his giant strides. He shall be the victim of his own devices, and when they seem to hold out the hope of prosperity shall lead him to destruction. (Comp. Ps. 141:1...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    יֵֽ֭צְרוּ צַעֲדֵ֣י אֹונֹ֑ו וְֽ תַשְׁלִיכֵ֥הוּ עֲצָתֹֽו׃...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    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...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    “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...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Step. He shall be greatly embarrassed, (Menochius) like a man in a narrow pass, (Calmet) beset with thorns. (Haydock) (Proverbs iv. 12.) --- Septuagint, "the weakest have made a prey of his possessio...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    (6) The light shall be dark in his tabernacle, and his candle shall be put out with him. (7) The steps of his strength shall be straitened, and his own counsel shall cast him down. (8) For he is cast...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    THE STEPS OF HIS STRENGTH SHALL BE STRAITENED,.... As a man in health can take large and strong steps, and travel in the greatness of his strength; so in prosperity he can and does take large steps in...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    The steps of his strength shall be straitened, and his own counsel shall cast him down. Ver. 7. _The steps of his strength shall be straitened_] That is, saith Vatablus, he shall not do what he would...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _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...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    The steps of his strength, the firm and mighty steps which he took in his self-conscious pride, SHALL BE STRAITENED, his movements hampered, his power shut in, AND HIS OWN COUNSEL SHALL CAST HIM DOWN,...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    BILDAD RECKONS JOB WITH THE HARDENED SINNERS...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Mark Dunagan Commentaries

    "HIS VIGOROUS STRIDE IS SHORTENED": The confident stride of the prosperous man comes to an end. "AND HIS OWN SCHEME BRINGS HIM DOWN": He is defeated by his own wicked plans that come back upon him lik...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    THE STEPS OF HIS STRENGTH, i.e. his strong steps, by a vulgar Hebraism. _By steps_ he means his counsels, as the next branch explains it, his attempts and actions; and by _steps of strength_, such of...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Job 18:7 steps H6806 strength H202 shortened H3334 (H8799) counsel H6098 down H7993 (H8686) steps -...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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 Biblical Illustrator

    _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....

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    _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...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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,...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Corinthians 3:19; 2 Samuel 15:31; 2 Samuel 17:14; Hosea 10:6;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Steps — His strong steps, by a vulgar Hebraism: his attempts and actions; such of them as seem to be contrived with greatest strength of understanding, and carried on with greatest resolution. Straite...

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