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Verse Job 8:13. _SO_ ARE _THE PATHS_] The _papyrus_ and the _rush_
flourish while they have a plentiful supply of _ooze_ and _water_; but
take these away, and their prosperity is speedily at an end;...
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SO ARE THE PATHS OF ALL THAT FORGET GOD - This is clearly a part of
the quotation from the sayings of the ancients. The word “paths”
here means ways, acts, doings. They who forget God are like the
pap...
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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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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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Application of the simile. When men forget God, and His sustaining
grace is withdrawn from them, they sink down suddenly and perish like
the luxuriant water-reed.
_the hypocrite_ This word is difficul...
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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...
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FOR INQUIRE, I PRAY THEE, &C.— Bildad had exhorted Job to apply
himself to God by prayer, upon the assurance, that if he were
innocent, as he pretended, or shewed any marks of a sincere
repentance, th...
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WHOSE HOPE SHALL BE CUT OFF, &C.— _The thing which he longed for
shall be a torment to him; and his confidence shall be as the spider's
web._ Heath....
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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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_SO ARE THE PATHS OF ALL THAT FORGET GOD; AND THE HYPOCRITE'S HOPE
SHALL PERISH:_
Paths - so ways (Proverbs 1:19).
ALL THAT FORGET GOD - the distinguishing trait of the godless. "The
wicked shall be...
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8:13 profane (c-12) Or ungodly....
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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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HOPE] of prosperity....
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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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כֵּ֗ן אָ֭רְחֹות כָּל ־שֹׁ֣כְחֵי אֵ֑ל
וְ תִקְו
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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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(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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SO [ARE] THE PATHS OF ALL THAT FORGET GOD,.... Who forget that there
is a God; he is not in all, and scarce in any of their thoughts, and
they live without him in the world; who forget the works of Go...
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So [are] the paths of all that forget God; and the hypocrite's hope
shall perish:
Ver. 13. _So are the paths of all that forget God_] To remember God
is as necessary as to draw breath, saith Chrysost...
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_So are the paths of all that forget God_ Of wicked men, who are often
described by this character; see Psalms 9:17; Psalms 50:22; or, of
hypocrites, as the next words explain it, whose first and fund...
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So are the paths of all that forget God, in the midst of their
apparent prosperity they suddenly fail; AND THE HYPOCRITE'S HOPE SHALL
PERISH, the expectation of the ungodly, of him who has fallen away...
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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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OF ALL THAT FORGET GOD, i.e. of wicked men, who are branded with this
same character, PSALMS 9:17, PSALMS 50:22; or hypocrites, as the next
words explain it, who are described by their first and funda...
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Job 8:13 paths H734 forget H7911 (H8802) God H410 hope H8615 hypocrite
H2611 perish H6 (H8799)
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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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_So are the paths of all that forget God._
WITHERING PATHS
I. Consider the sin of forgetting God.
1. It is a very common sin. Thousands never think of Him except in
times of trouble.
2. It is an i...
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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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Deuteronomy 6:12; Deuteronomy 8:11; Deuteronomy 8:14; Deuteronomy
8:19;...
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Paths — Of wicked men. By their paths he doth not understand their
manner of living, but the events which befall them, God's manner of
dealing with them....