"HOW LONG WILL YOU HUNT FOR WORDS?": "He likened Job's talk to unintelligent ramblings in which he was unsuccessfully trying to find the right words" _(p. 82). _ "Show understanding and then we can talk": That is, "start making sense", agree with Bildad and his friends, then they can have an intelli... [ Continue Reading ]
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.... [ Continue Reading ]
"O YOU WHO TEAR YOURSELF IN YOUR ANGER": Job had lamented that God tore him in His anger (Job 16:9); Bildad responds with. different idea, that Job was actually tearing himself in his own anger, and that his hardships were the results of his own sins. JOB 18:4 "FOR YOUR SAKE IS THE EARTH TO BE ABAND... [ Continue Reading ]
"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 believes them to be so. "The light burning in. house is symbolic of continuous prosperity (Proverbs 13:9; J... [ Continue Reading ]
The term "tent" indicates that when this book was written many people still lived in tents.... [ Continue Reading ]
"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 like. boomerang.... [ Continue Reading ]
In verses 8-10 six different words are used for what we would call. "trap". The "net" is for catching birds or men, and the "webbing" is. light, interwoven covering over. pit. Notice the expression _by his own feet,_ that is the wicked are caught up in their own schemes. What Bildad says here is oft... [ Continue Reading ]
The "snare" is. bird trap, and the "trap" that "snaps shut" is one with some kind of mesh. The "noose" hidden in the ground is. rope with. noose, and the "trap" on the path is the general term _(Zuck p. 83)._ "The world of God is one network of snares for the wicked man" _(Davidson). _... [ Continue Reading ]
As. result of all these imminent dangers facing the wicked such. person is continually frightened and fearful (Proverbs 28:1).... [ Continue Reading ]
"HIS STRENGTH IS FAMISHED, AND CALAMITY IS READY AT HIS SIDE": The wicked man may be worn out and tired, but the calamity that stalks him remains hungry and ready to strike.... [ Continue Reading ]
"HIS SKIN IS DEVOURED BY DISEASE": Clearly. direct attack on Job who had. disease-ridden body. "THE FIRSTBORN OF DEATH DEVOURS HIS LIMBS": This could mean "death in its most terrible form". "A better meaning may be that among man's diseases known as death's children because they serve death's purpos... [ Continue Reading ]
"HE IS TORN FROM THE SECURITY OF HIS TENT": In this verse death is pictured as the king of terrors, before whom Job will be dragged as. captive. Yet Bildad has not been listening to Job, for Job has been looking at death as. release from his suffering. In addition, the Christian should not fear deat... [ Continue Reading ]
"THERE DWELLS IN HIS TENT NOTHING OF HIS": His possessions pass on to others (Ecclesiastes 2:18f), or are removed by God's judgment. The use of the term "brimstone" may either refer to the practice of using sulphur to fumigate the room where. corpse had lain, or an inference that Job's losing his pr... [ Continue Reading ]
The wicked man becomes like. rootless, branchless tree. This may also be. veiled reference to the fact that Job had been deprived of all his children, and yet that point will be driven home in Job 18:19... [ Continue Reading ]
People do not remember the wicked according to Bildad, he is banished into darkness, and his entire family perishes. "Lack of descendents was considered. terrible fate, for. man's name would not be perpetuated" _(Zuck p. 84). _... [ Continue Reading ]
Such. fate would appall people everywhere.... [ Continue Reading ]
"SURELY": Notice again the absolute confidence of Bildad, and there are no exceptions to this rule! Bildad reasoned that since Job had lost his possessions, children, wealth, and reputation, and was plagued by numerous calamities, it is obvious that he is wicked. The term "wicked" means. "deviate" p... [ Continue Reading ]