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Joseph Benson’s Bible Commentary

Job 8:14

Whose hope shall be cut off That is, whose wealth and outward glory, which is the foundation and matter of his hope, shall be suddenly and violently taken away from him; or, as the Hebrew יקושׂ, jacot, may be translated, whose hope shall be irksome or tedious to him, by the succession of earliest expectations and great disappointments. Whose trust shall be a spider's web Which though it be formed with great art and industry, and may do much mischief to others, yet is most slender and feeble, and easily swept down, or pulled in pieces, and unable to defend the spider that made it. The application is obvious.

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Job 8:14. _WHOSE HOPE SHALL BE CUT OFF_] Such persons, subdued by the strong habits of sin, hope on fruitlessly, till the last thread of the web of life is cut off from the beam; and then they f...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    WHOSE HOPE SHALL BE CUT OFF - Schultens supposes that the quotation from the ancients closes with Job 8:13, and that these are the comments of Bildad on the passage to which he had referred. Rosenmull...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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)...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    HOPE. confidence....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _shall be cut off_ Perhaps rather, GOETH IN SUNDER, though the meaning is not quite certain. One would have expected a noun here parallel to "spider's web" in the second clause, but no efforts to find...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

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  • Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

    DISCOURSE: 457 BILDAD WARNS JOB OF THE DANGER OF HYPOCRISY Job 8:8. Inquire, I pray thee, of the former age, and prepare thyself to the search of their fathers: (for we are but of yesterday, and know...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    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...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _WHOSE HOPE SHALL BE CUT OFF, AND WHOSE TRUST SHALL BE A SPIDER'S WEB._ Cut off - so Gesenius. Or, to accord with the metaphor of the spider's house (Hebrew for "web"). 'The confidence on which he bu...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    8:14 web. (d-13) Lit. 'house.'...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

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  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

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  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    אֲשֶׁר ־יָקֹ֥וט כִּסְלֹ֑ו וּ בֵ֥ית עַ֝כָּבִ֗ישׁ...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

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  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

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

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  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    Whose hope shall be cut off, and whose trust [shall be] a (h) spider's web. (h) Which is today and tomorrow swept away....

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

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  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    (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...

  • John Brown Commentaries Selected Books of the Bible

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  • John Darby's Synopsis

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  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    WHOSE HOPE SHALL BE CUT OFF,.... The same thing as before, expressed in different words, and repeated for the certainty of it; signifying that it should be of no manner of use, should be wholly lost,...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Whose hope shall be cut off, and whose trust [shall be] a spider's web. Ver. 14. Whose hope (or whose folly, that is, whose foolish hope) shall be cut off] The Latin translation hath it, his folly sh...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    whose hope shall be cut off, and whose trust shall be a spider's web, that in which the godless trust, on which they place their confidence, is like a spider's web, which is broken at the slightest to...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

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  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

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  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    A SPIDERS WEB: _ Heb._ a spiders house...

  • Mark Dunagan Commentaries

    "WHOSE TRUST. SPIDER'S WEB": Anything in which the godless may seek to hope, is as flimsy as. spider's web. He has nothing upon which to lean. Therefore, Job's confidence in his innocence is as fragil...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    i.e. Whose wealth and outward glory, which is the matter of his _hope_ and _trust_, shall be cut off, i.e. suddenly and violently taken away from him. _Whose hope shall be irksome or tedious to him_,...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Job 8:14 confidence H3689 off H6990 (H8799) trust H4009 spiders H5908 web H1004 web - Heb. house,...

  • Scofield's Bible Commentary

    TRUST (_ See Scofield) - (Psalms 2:12). _...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

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  • The children's great texts of the Bible by James Hastings

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  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    JOB—NOTE ON JOB 8:1 Bildad is the second friend to “comfort” Job. ⇐ ⇔...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

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  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    _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...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

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  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

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  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Isaiah 59:5; Isaiah 59:6...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Hope — Whose wealth and outward glory, the matter of his hope, and trust, shall be cut off suddenly and violently taken away from him. Web — Which tho' it be formed with great art and industry, is eas...

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