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Verse Job 8:16. _HE_ IS _GREEN BEFORE THE SUN_] This is another
metaphor. The wicked is represented as a luxuriant plant, in a good
soil, with all the advantages of a good situation; well exposed to...
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HE IS GREEN BEFORE THE SUN - Vulgate, _“antequam veniat sol - before
the sun comes.”_ So the Chaldee, “before the rising of the sun.”
So Eichhorn renders it. According to this, which is probably the t...
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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)...
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THE WISDOM OF THE ANCIENTS. Bildad recalls Job to tradition as
enshrined in the proverbs of the fathers (Job 8:8). Authority belongs
to the voice of the past (Job 8:9). The respect which our age has f...
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HE. Supply _Ellipsis_ (App-6), "He [like. tree]". This is the second
simile, and the application is in Job 8:20. The first simile is in Job
8:11, with its application in verses: Job 8:13....
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The moral wisdom of the ancients
Bildad, having laid down his moral principle, invites Job to reflect
that it is a principle resting on the research and the generalized
experience of men of generatio...
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A new figure of a spreading, luxuriant plant, suddenly destroyed, and
leaving not a trace of itself behind.
_before the sun_ This scarcely means _openly_, in broad day and in the
face of the sun, but...
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2. The wisdom of the ages teaches that it is the godless who perish.
(Job 8:8-19)
TEXT 8:8-19
8 FOR INQUIRE, I PRAY THEE, OF THE FORMER AGE,
And apply thyself to that which their fathers have searc...
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_HE IS GREEN BEFORE THE SUN, AND HIS BRANCH SHOOTETH FORTH IN HIS
GARDEN._
Before the sun, х_ LIPNEEY_ (H6440) _ SHEMESH_ (H8121)] - i:e., He
(the godless) is green only before the sun rises; but he...
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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...
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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 8
BILDAD’S FIRST SPEECH
TH...
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Bildad explained his ideas with three stories.
• The first story is about plants that grow near the river (verses
11-13). Without water, such plants die quickly. Such plants are like
people who do no...
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HE IS GREEN. — Here begins, as we understand it, another and an
opposite picture, which fact is marked in the Hebrew by an emphatic
pronoun. “Green is _he_ (see Job 8:6) before the sun, &c., quite
unl...
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רָטֹ֣ב ה֖וּא לִ פְנֵי ־שָׁ֑מֶשׁ וְ
עַ֥ל
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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...
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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...
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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...
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He [is] (i) green before the sun, and his branch shooteth forth in his
garden.
(i) He compares the just to a tree, which although it is moved from
one place to another, yet flourishes: so the afflict...
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Seemeth. Hebrew, "he is green before the sun" beat upon him. ---
Rising, ortu, for horto, (Haydock) as the Hebrew, &c., have "garden,"
(Menochius) with some Latin editions. He had compared the wicked...
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(10) Shall not they teach thee, and tell thee, and utter words out of
their heart? (11) Can the rush grow up without mire? can the flag grow
without water? (12) Whilst it is yet in his greenness, and...
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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...
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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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HE [IS] GREEN BEFORE THE SUN,.... Which some understand of the rush or
flag, of which a further account is given, as setting forth more fully
the case of wicked men and hypocrites; but to either of th...
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He [is] green before the sun, and his branch shooteth forth in his
garden.
Ver. 16. _He is green before the sun_] _Succosus est,_ saith
Tremellius, he is sappy and juicy, having a confluence of all k...
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_He_, &c. The hypocrite, or the secure and prosperous sinner, may
think himself degraded when he is compared to a rush or flag. Compare
him, then, to a flourishing and well-rooted tree, which spreads...
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He is green before the sun, like a succulent creeper in the sunshine,
AND HIS BRANCH SHOOTETH FORTH IN HIS GARDEN, the whole garden being
overrun with his root-sprouts....
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An Accusation of Wickedness against Job.
Bildad was convinced that Job was, in some way, guilty of some special
great transgression against the Lord, that his present affliction was
the punishment fo...
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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...
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8-19 Bildad discourses well of hypocrites and evil-doers, and the
fatal end of all their hopes and joys. He proves this truth of the
destruction of the hopes and joys of hypocrites, by an appeal to
f...
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HE; either,
1. The perfect man, here understood out of JOB 8:20, where it is
expressed; or rather,
2. The hypocrite, of whom he hath hitherto treated, to whom this and
the following verses very well...
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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...
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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...
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JOB—NOTE ON JOB 8:1 Bildad is the second friend to “comfort”
Job.
⇐ ⇔...
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JOB—NOTE ON JOB 8:11 PAPYRUS and REEDS grow quickly in the wetlands,
but they are also very vulnerable. They need a constant supply of
water. Other plants are deeply rooted in rocky soil, but they can...
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_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...
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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...
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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...
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Job 21:7; Job 5:3; Psalms 37:35; Psalms 37:36; Psalms 73:3...
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He — The secure and prosperous sinner may think himself wronged,
when he is compared to a rush or flag. Compare him then to a
flourishing and well — rooted tree. Yet even then shall he be
suddenly cut...