Marginal Notes in the KJV (1611)
Job 8:4
for their transgression:
Heb. in the hand of their transgression
for their transgression:
Heb. in the hand of their transgression
Verse Job 8:4. _IF THY CHILDREN HAVE SINNED_] I know thy children have been cut off by a terrible judgment; but was it not because by transgression they had filled up the measure of their iniquity? _...
IF THY CHILDREN HAVE SINNED AGAINST HIM - Bildad here assumes that the children of Job had been wicked, and had been cut off in their sins. This must have cut him to the quick, for there was nothing w...
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)...
OPENING OF BILDAD'S FIRST SPEECH. The two younger friends, says Duhm, make a less favourable impression than Eliphaz. Bildad's great point is the discriminating rectitude of God, who unfailingly rewar...
CHILDREN. sons. FOR. by the hand of; by their own act. TRANSGRESSION. rebellion. Hebrew. _pash'a._ App-44....
In opposition to Job's impious principle Bildad brings forward his doctrine of the Divine rectitude on both its sides, the one illustrated in the fate of Job's children (Job 8:4), the other, as he hop...
The construction of the English version is possible, which makes the whole of Job 8:4 the supposition or protasis and begins the second member of the sentence with Job 8:5. But more probably Job 8:4 i...
The discriminating rectitude of God 2. Before coming to his principle and by way of introducing it Bildad expresses his wonder that Job should allow himself to speak such things as his discourse conta...
IF THY CHILDREN HAVE SINNED— _Though thy children have sinned. Job 8:6. Surely now he would awake for thee_] _Surely now he would make bare his arm on thy behalf; he would make the beauty of thy right...
D. THE GREAT ABSENCE: EMPATHY AND SYMPATHYBILDAD Job 8:1-22 1. God is just and has not been unrighteous. (Job 8:1-7) (A rebuke of Job.) TEXT 8:1-7 8 THEN ANSWERED BILDAD THE SHUHITE, AND SAID, 2 H...
_IF THY CHILDREN HAVE SINNED AGAINST HIM, AND HE HAVE CAST THEM AWAY FOR THEIR TRANSGRESSION;_ If - rather, "Since THY CHILDREN HAVE SINNED AGAINST HIM, and (since) He have cast them away for (Hebrew...
AND HE HAVE CAST, etc.] RV 'he delivered them into the hand of their transgression,' i.e. abandoned them to the consequences of their sins. This conclusion about the death of Job's sons was quite unju...
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...
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...
Verse 3 is right. We all should agree with this verse. But verse 3 leads to an awful idea in verse 4. These are terrible words to say to a man whose children have recently died. We might expect Job to...
AND HE HAVE CAST THEM AWAY. — Literally, _then he sent them away._ By means of their transgression; it became their destruction....
אִם ־בָּנֶ֥יךָ חָֽטְאוּ ־לֹ֑ו וַֽ֝ יְשַׁלְּחֵ֗ם...
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...
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...
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...
If thy children have sinned against him, and he have cast them away for their (b) transgression; (b) That is, has rewarded them according to their iniquity, meaning that Job should be warned by the e...
_Iniquity, and suffered them to perish. (Calmet)_...
(1) В¶ Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said, (2) How long wilt thou speak these things? and how long shall the words of thy mouth be like a strong wind? (3) Doth God pervert judgment? or doth th...
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...
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...
IF THY CHILDREN HAVE SINNED AGAINST HIM,.... As no doubt they had, and, as Bildad thought, in a very notorious manner, and therefore were righteously punished for them; this instance is produced as a...
If thy children have sinned against him, and he have cast them away for their transgression; Ver. 4. _If thy children have sinned against him_] As what man is he that liveth and sinneth not? But Bild...
_If thy children have sinned against him_ If thou wast innocent, thy children, upon whom a great part of these calamities fell, might be guilty; and therefore God is not unrighteous in these proceedin...
If thy children have sinned against him, namely, in celebrating their feasts and banquets, 1:5-18, AND HE HAVE CAST THEM AWAY FOR THEIR TRANSGRESSION, abandoning them to the destructive hand of their...
AN ADMONITION TO JOB TO REPENT OF HIS SIN...
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...
"With thoughtless cruelty, Bildad referred to Job's dead children in an effort to demonstrate his point. Bildad thus hinted that Job's sacrifices for his children (Job 1:5) had no expiatory value; the...
1-7 Job spake much to the purpose; but Bildad, like an eager, angry disputant, turns it all off with this, How long wilt thou speak these things? Men's meaning is not taken aright, and then they are...
What though thou wast in a great measure innocent, thy children, upon whom a great part of these calamities fell, might be guilty of great sins; and therefore God is not unrighteous in these proceedin...
Job 8:4 sons H1121 sinned H2398 (H8804) away H7971 (H8762) for H3027 transgression H6588 he have cast -...
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...
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...
JOB—NOTE ON JOB 8:1 Bildad is the second friend to “comfort” Job. ⇐ ⇔...
JOB—NOTE ON JOB 8:4 After the rhetorical questions in v. Job 8:3, Bildad presents two conditional statements (“if... then”) to Job that are meant to represent the consequences of God’s justice. The fi...
_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...
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...
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...
Genesis 13:13; Genesis 19:13; Job 1:18; Job 1:19; Job 1:5;...
If — If thou wast innocent, thy children, upon whom a great part of these calamities fell, might be guilty; and therefore God is not unrighteous in these proceedings....