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Verse Job 18:14. _HIS CONFIDENCE SHALL BE ROOTED OUT_] His
dwelling-place, how well soever fortified, shall now he deemed utterly
insecure.
_AND IT SHALL BRING HIM TO THE KING OF TERRORS._] Or, as Mr...
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HIS CONFIDENCE SHALL BE ROOTED OUT OF HIS TABERNACLE - Security shall
forsake his dwelling, and he shall be subject to constant alarms.
There shall be nothing there in which he can confide, and all th...
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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...
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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,...
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KING OF TERRORS. Euphemy, for death....
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The meaning is,
He shall be plucked out of his tent wherein he trusted,
And he shall be brought to the king of terrors.
In the phrase "his tent wherein he trusted" Bildad goes back to his
former fi...
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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...
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The closing scenes in three steps: his strength is weakened; his body
consumed by a terrible disease; he is led away to the dark king....
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AND IT SHALL BRING HIM TO THE KING OF TERRORS— _Horrors shall attack
him, like a king._ Heath....
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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...
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_HIS CONFIDENCE SHALL BE ROOTED OUT OF HIS TABERNACLE, AND IT SHALL
BRING HIM TO THE KING OF TERRORS._
Confidence - all that the father trusted in for domestic
happiness-children, fortune, etc.; refe...
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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...
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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...
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When Bildad talked about the man’s tent, he did not simply mean a
home. He also meant the man’s life. A tent may seem to be a good
home. But a tent is temporary. So a wicked man’s life is like a
tent....
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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....
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HIS CONFIDENCE SHALL BE ROOTED OUT. — Rather, _he shall be rooted
out of his tent which he trusted was his own._
THE KING OF TERRORS. — Perhaps the most remarkable personification
of unseen forces to...
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יִנָּתֵ֣ק מֵ֭ אָהֳלֹו מִבְטַחֹ֑ו וְ֝
תַצְעִדֵ֗הוּ...
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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...
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“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...
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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...
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His confidence shall be rooted out of his tabernacle, and it shall
bring him to the (i) king of terrors.
(i) That is, with great fear....
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_Confidence. Septuagint, "health." --- Let. Protestants, "and it shall
bring him to the king of terrors;" (Haydock) or, "thou (O God) shalt,"
&c. Septuagint, "let him be in the greatest (Calmet) want,...
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(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...
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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...
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HIS CONFIDENCE SHALL BE ROOTED OUT OF HIS TABERNACLE,.... That which
his confidence was placed in, his wealth and riches, his family,
particularly his children, in all which he placed his confidence o...
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His confidence shall be rooted out of his tabernacle, and it shall
bring him to the king of terrors.
Ver. 14. _And his confidence shall be rooted out of his tabernacle_]
Whatsoever he trusteth in abo...
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_His confidence_ That is, all the matter of his confidence, his
riches, children, &c.; _shall be rooted out of his tabernacle_ That
is, out of his habitation. _And it_ Namely, the loss of his
confiden...
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BILDAD RECKONS JOB WITH THE HARDENED SINNERS...
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His confidence shall be rooted out of his tabernacle, he is torn from
his tent, his dwelling, in which he trusted, away from everything that
made him happy, so that he is deprived of all hopes of the...
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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...
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"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 b...
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11-21 Bildad describes the destruction wicked people are kept for, in
the other world, and which in some degree, often seizes them in this
world. The way of sin is the way of fear, and leads to everl...
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HIS CONFIDENCE, i.e. all the matter of his confidence, his riches,
children, &c. OUT OF HIS TABERNACLE, i.e. out of his habitation. IT
SHALL BRING HIM, to wit, the loss of his confidence. TO THE KING...
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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...
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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...
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_His confidence shall be rooted out of his tabernacle, and it shall
bring him to the king of terrors._
THE CONFIDENCE OF THE WICKED
The world understands by the word “wicked” one who offends against...
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_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....
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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...
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JOB—NOTE ON JOB 18:11 FIRSTBORN OF DEATH and KING OF TERRORS
personifies the process and finality of death.
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JOB—NOTE ON JOB 18:14 Bildad refers throughout these verses to the
destruction of both the house and the household of the wicked (both of
which Job has endured; Job 1:13) to assert that Job’s circumst...
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_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...
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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,...
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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...
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1 Corinthians 15:55; 1 Corinthians 15:56; Hebrews 2:15; Job 11:20;...
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Confidence — All the matter of his confidence, his riches, and
children. Terrors — To death, which even Aristotle called, The most
terrible of all terribles. And this it will do, either because it wil...