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Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Job 18:2

How long, &c.— How long will you hunt after cavils against established maxims? speak your meaning plainly, and we will reply. The sense is, that it was in vain to puzzle the cause with cavils and exceptions; that he should give a plain instance where a righteous man was ever known to have had punishment inflicted on him; or else own the truth of the established maxim, that punishment was a sure mark of wickedness. Heath.

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Job 18:2. _HOW LONG_ WILL IT BE ERE _YE MAKE AN END_] It is difficult to say to whom this address is made: being in the _plural_ number, it can hardly be supposed to mean Job only. It probably...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    HOW LONG WILL IT BE ERE YE MAKE AN END OF WORDS? - It has been made a question to whom this is addressed. It is in the plural number, and it is not usual in Hebrew when addressing an individual to mak...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    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,...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    HOW LONG... ? Figure of speech _Erotesis._ App-6. an end: or,. perversion....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Then he spoke impiously of God, saying that He tore him in His anger (ch. Job 16:9), and appealed to the earth and nature to rise up on his side (ch. Job 16:18). Such things provoke the personal and...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    C. THE GRANDEUR AND MISERY OF MAN OR IMPOSSIBILITY OF SELF-JUSTIFICATION (Job 18:1-21) 1. Sharp rebuke of Job (Job 18:1-4) TEXT 18:1-4 1 THEN ANSWERED BILDAD THE SHUHITE, AND SAID, 2 How long wi...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _HOW LONG WILL IT BE ERE YE MAKE AN END OF WORDS? MARK, AND AFTERWARDS WE WILL SPEAK._ Ye - the other two friends of Job, whom Bildad charges with having spoken mere "words" - i:e., empty speeches: o...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    18:2 for (i-6) Or, as some, 'make an end of.'...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    RV 'How long will ye lay snares for words'; i.e. hunt for arguments. MARK] RV 'consider (the matter).'...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    It seems that Job did not speak quietly. He felt strong emotions. Bildad thought that Job was angry. But Bildad thought that his own opinion was important. He did not want Job to interrupt. So Bildad...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    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...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    עַד ־אָ֤נָה ׀ תְּשִׂימ֣וּן קִנְצֵ֣י לְ מִלִּ֑ין...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    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...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    “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...

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

    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...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    How long [will it be ere] (a) ye make an end of words? (b) mark, and afterwards we will speak. (a) Who count yourselves just as (Job 12:4). (b) Whom you take to be only beasts, as in (Job 12:7)....

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    Understand ye. Teach this man to comprehend what we say. He deigns not to address Job in person: but repeats most of his former remarks respecting the wicked, as if they were unquestionably applicable...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    (1) В¶ Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said, (2) How long will it be ere ye make an end of words? mark, and afterwards we will speak. (3) Wherefore are we counted as beasts, and reputed vile in...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    HOW LONG [WILL IT BE] ERE YE MAKE AN END OF WORDS?.... Because these words are expressed the plural number, some think more persons than one are addressed, either Eliphaz and Job together, who are com...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    How long [will it be ere] ye make an end of words? mark, and afterwards we will speak. Ver. 2. _How long will it be ere you make an end of words?_] First he taxeth Job with being talkative, when he h...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _How long will it be ere you wake an end_ How long shall we continue this dispute? Why do not you, my brethren, give over discoursing with Job, who is so transported by his passions, as not to be fit...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    How long will it be ere ye make an end of words? He accuses Job of hunting for words, of offering longwinded, endless discourses, useless arguments. MARK, AND AFTERWARDS WE WILL SPEAK. Job should firs...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    BILDAD ATTACKS JOB...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Mark Dunagan Commentaries

    "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 ta...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    1-4 Bildad had before given Job good advice and encouragement; here he used nothing but rebukes, and declared his ruin. And he concluded that Job shut out the providence of God from the management of...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    ERE YE; either, 1. You my brethren. Why do you not give over discoursing with Job, who is wholly transported with rage, and not fit to be discoursed with, at least until both you and he have better c...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Job 18:2 long H5704 put H7760 (H8799) end H7078 words H4405 understanding H995 (H8799) afterward H310 speak...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _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....

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    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...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    _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...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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,...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    James 1:19; Job 11:2; Job 13:5; Job 13:6; Job 16:2;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Ye — Thou, O Job; of whom he speaks here, as also Job 18:3, in the plural number, as was a common idiotism of the Eastern language, to speak thus of one person, especially where he was one of eminency...

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