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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...
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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...
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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...
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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,...
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HOW LONG... ? Figure of speech _Erotesis._ App-6. an end: or,.
perversion....
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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...
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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
ex...
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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...
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_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...
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18:2 for (i-6) Or, as some, 'make an end of.'...
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RV 'How long will ye lay snares for words'; i.e. hunt for arguments.
MARK] RV 'consider (the matter).'...
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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...
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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...
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JOB, A SERVANT OF GOD
Job
_KEITH SIMONS_
Words in boxes (except for words in brackets) are from the Bible.
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CHAPTER 18
BILDAD’S SECOND SPEECH...
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עַד ־אָ֤נָה ׀ תְּשִׂימ֣וּן קִנְצֵ֣י
לְ מִלִּ֑ין...
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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...
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“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...
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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...
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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...
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(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...
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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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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...
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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...
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_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...
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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...
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BILDAD ATTACKS JOB...
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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...
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"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...
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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...
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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...
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Job 18:2 long H5704 put H7760 (H8799) end H7078 words H4405
understanding H995 (H8799) afterward H310 speak...
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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...
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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...
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_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....
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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...
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_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...
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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,...
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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...
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James 1:19; Job 11:2; Job 13:5; Job 13:6; Job 16:2;...
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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...