_BILDAD AFFIRMS, THAT IF JOB WAS INNOCENT, HE WOULD BE IMMEDIATELY RESTORED TO HIS FORMER SPLENDOR, ON HIS MAKING SUPPLICATION TO THE ALMIGHTY. HE SHEWS THAT THE WICKED IS LIKE THE BULRUSH, WHICH WITHERS AS SOON AS IT IS SPRUNG UP._ _Before Christ 1645._ _JOB 8:1. THEN ANSWERED BILDAD THE SHUHITE_... [ Continue Reading ]
HOW LONG WILT THOU SPEAK THESE THINGS?— _How long wilt thou trifle in this manner?_ He compares his _words_ in the next clause to a _strong wind,_ to denote the vehemence and impetuosity wherewith, according to his opinion, the pride of Job's heart burst forth against God. There is a passage in Sili... [ Continue Reading ]
IF THY CHILDREN HAVE SINNED— _Though thy children have sinned. Job 8:6. Surely now he would awake for thee_] _Surely now he would make bare his arm on thy behalf; he would make the beauty of thy righteousness perfect._ Heath.... [ Continue Reading ]
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, there was no doubt but he would be restored, through the divine mercy, to his former state of prosperi... [ Continue Reading ]
CAN THE RUSH GROW UP WITHOUT MIRE? &C.— _A bulrush without water_ is proverbial. It is adapted to the hypocrite, who, while he suddenly grows up, withers as suddenly, and while he flourishes most verdantly, is immediately dried up. _Can the flag,_ or, _can the sedge._ Houbigant renders the 12th vers... [ Continue Reading ]
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.... [ Continue Reading ]
HE SHALL LEAN UPON HIS HOUSE— _He may prop up his house, but it shall not stand: he may make himself strong in it, but it shall not endure._ Heath, after the LXX.... [ Continue Reading ]
HIS ROOTS ARE WRAPPED ABOUT THE HEAP— Heath renders it, _He windeth his roots about a spring; he twisteth himself about a heap of stones._ Houbigant reads it, _he has his roots involved_ or _fixed in a hill; he adheres to the midst of stones;_ by which the writer seems to express the apparent firmne... [ Continue Reading ]
BEHOLD, THIS IS THE JOY OF HIS WAY, &C.— _Behold him now; destruction is in his path; and strangers out of the dust shall spring up in his room._ Heath.... [ Continue Reading ]
BEHOLD, GOD WILL NOT CAST AWAY— _Lo! as God doth not cast away the perfect man, so neither doth he strengthen the hands of the wicked;_ Job 8:21. _Therefore he will again fill thy mouth with laughter,_ &c. Houbigant. This appears a kind of sarcastical conclusion; in which Bildad observes, that, thou... [ Continue Reading ]