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 whose case the description is largely
unsuitable, as in answer to his impeachment of God's moral govern... [ Continue Reading ]
RV 'How long will ye lay snares for words'; i.e. hunt for arguments.
MARK] RV 'consider (the matter).'... [ Continue Reading ]
Cp. Job 17:2; Job 17:4; Job 17:10.
4A. RV 'Thou that tearest thyself in thine anger,' a rebuke to Job's
rash utterance in Job 16:9. SHALL THE EARTH, etc.] Did Job imagine
that God's universal law that sin must be followed by suffering would
be reversed in his case, because of bis expressions of ind... [ Continue Reading ]
GIN] i.e. trap. The word was originally 'grinne.'
9B. RV 'a snare shall lay hold on him.'... [ Continue Reading ]
DRIVE HIM TO HIS FEET] RV 'chase him at his heels.'... [ Continue Reading ]
HUNGER-BITTEN] exhausted by hunger.... [ Continue Reading ]
STRENGTH OF HIS SKIN] RV 'members of his body.' FIRSTBORN OF DEATH]
i.e. a deadly disease.
14A. Render, 'He shall be rooted out of the tent he trusted was his
own.' KING OF TERRORS] death.
15A. RV 'There shall dwell in his tent that which is none of his,'
i.e. his possessions will pass into the ha... [ Continue Reading ]
NO NAME IN THE STREET] he is quite forgotten.... [ Continue Reading ]
NEPHEW] RV 'son's son.'... [ Continue Reading ]
Render, 'They of the west shall be astonished at his day (i.e. fate),
and horror shall seize those on the east.' His name will be a byword
throughout the world.... [ Continue Reading ]