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Job 8 |
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Job 8:1 Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,
Bildad reproves Job
Job spake much to the purpose; but Bildad, like an eager, angry disputant, turns it all off with this, How long wilt thou speak these things? Men’s meaning is not taken aright, and then they are rebuked, as if they were evil-doers. Even in disputes on religion, it is too common to treat others with sharpness, and their arguments with contempt. Bildad’s discourse shows that he had not a favorable opinion of Job’s character. Job owned that God did not pervert judgment; yet it did not therefore follow that his children were castaways, or that they died for some great transgression. Extraordinary afflictions are not always the punishment of extraordinary sins, sometimes they are the trials of extraordinary graces: in judging of anther’s case, we ought to take the favorable side. Bildad puts Job in hope, that if he were indeed upright, he should yet see a good end of his present troubles. This is God’s way of enriching the souls of his people with graces and comforts. The beginning is small, but the progress is to perfection. Dawning light grows to noon-day.
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1Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,2How long wilt thou speak these [things]? and [how long shall] the words of thy mouth [be like] a strong wind?3Doth God pervert judgment? or doth the Almighty pervert justice?4If thy children have sinned against him, and he have cast them away for their transgression;5If thou wouldest seek unto God betimes, and make thy supplication to the Almighty;6If thou [wert] pure and upright; surely now he would awake for thee, and make the habitation of thy righteousness prosperous.7Though thy beginning was small, yet thy latter end should greatly increase.
Author: Matthew Henry Rank: Priest AD: 1714 Source:
Title: Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on the Whole Bible Author: Matthew Henry
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Job 8:2 How long wilt thou speak these [things]? and [how long shall] the words of thy mouth [be like] a strong wind?
Bildad reproves Job
Job spake much to the purpose; but Bildad, like an eager, angry disputant, turns it all off with this, How long wilt thou speak these things? Men’s meaning is not taken aright, and then they are rebuked, as if they were evil-doers. Even in disputes on religion, it is too common to treat others with sharpness, and their arguments with contempt. Bildad’s discourse shows that he had not a favorable opinion of Job’s character. Job owned that God did not pervert judgment; yet it did not therefore follow that his children were castaways, or that they died for some great transgression. Extraordinary afflictions are not always the punishment of extraordinary sins, sometimes they are the trials of extraordinary graces: in judging of anther’s case, we ought to take the favorable side. Bildad puts Job in hope, that if he were indeed upright, he should yet see a good end of his present troubles. This is God’s way of enriching the souls of his people with graces and comforts. The beginning is small, but the progress is to perfection. Dawning light grows to noon-day.
Verses that belong to this explanation: 1-7
1Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,2How long wilt thou speak these [things]? and [how long shall] the words of thy mouth [be like] a strong wind?3Doth God pervert judgment? or doth the Almighty pervert justice?4If thy children have sinned against him, and he have cast them away for their transgression;5If thou wouldest seek unto God betimes, and make thy supplication to the Almighty;6If thou [wert] pure and upright; surely now he would awake for thee, and make the habitation of thy righteousness prosperous.7Though thy beginning was small, yet thy latter end should greatly increase.
Author: Matthew Henry Rank: Priest AD: 1714 Source:
Title: Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on the Whole Bible Author: Matthew Henry
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Job 8:3 Doth God pervert judgment? or doth the Almighty pervert justice?
Bildad reproves Job
Job spake much to the purpose; but Bildad, like an eager, angry disputant, turns it all off with this, How long wilt thou speak these things? Men’s meaning is not taken aright, and then they are rebuked, as if they were evil-doers. Even in disputes on religion, it is too common to treat others with sharpness, and their arguments with contempt. Bildad’s discourse shows that he had not a favorable opinion of Job’s character. Job owned that God did not pervert judgment; yet it did not therefore follow that his children were castaways, or that they died for some great transgression. Extraordinary afflictions are not always the punishment of extraordinary sins, sometimes they are the trials of extraordinary graces: in judging of anther’s case, we ought to take the favorable side. Bildad puts Job in hope, that if he were indeed upright, he should yet see a good end of his present troubles. This is God’s way of enriching the souls of his people with graces and comforts. The beginning is small, but the progress is to perfection. Dawning light grows to noon-day.
Verses that belong to this explanation: 1-7
1Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,2How long wilt thou speak these [things]? and [how long shall] the words of thy mouth [be like] a strong wind?3Doth God pervert judgment? or doth the Almighty pervert justice?4If thy children have sinned against him, and he have cast them away for their transgression;5If thou wouldest seek unto God betimes, and make thy supplication to the Almighty;6If thou [wert] pure and upright; surely now he would awake for thee, and make the habitation of thy righteousness prosperous.7Though thy beginning was small, yet thy latter end should greatly increase.
Author: Matthew Henry Rank: Priest AD: 1714 Source:
Title: Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on the Whole Bible Author: Matthew Henry
Bildad says, “be unjust in his judgments, or will he who has created everything overturn what is just?” Observe what he means: justice accompanies the Creator. However, even though Bildad’s words are not entirely applicable to Job, let us see what he means. Do you not perceive the profound justice that reigns in the creation and its profound order? And how everything is well regulated and settled? Therefore, could he who maintains justice and order among the senseless creatures overturn the rules in your case? Further, why did God create everything? Is it not because of you, the human being? And so he who has created so many things, did he not give you what was right to share? He who has created you out of love and has created so many things for you, if he has shown his benevolence toward the universe, this is also a proof of his power. We often overturn justice because of our powerlessness, but “he has created everything,” he says. Will he, who is so wise, so just, so powerful, be unjust? - "Commentary on Job 8.2a–3b"
So Bildad the Shuhite reproached Job because he thought that the words that Job had said for the sake of truth and justice were, in fact, spoken out of arrogance and disdain. - "Commentary on Job 8.2"
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Job 8:4 If thy children have sinned against him, and he have cast them away for their transgression;
Bildad reproves Job
Job spake much to the purpose; but Bildad, like an eager, angry disputant, turns it all off with this, How long wilt thou speak these things? Men’s meaning is not taken aright, and then they are rebuked, as if they were evil-doers. Even in disputes on religion, it is too common to treat others with sharpness, and their arguments with contempt. Bildad’s discourse shows that he had not a favorable opinion of Job’s character. Job owned that God did not pervert judgment; yet it did not therefore follow that his children were castaways, or that they died for some great transgression. Extraordinary afflictions are not always the punishment of extraordinary sins, sometimes they are the trials of extraordinary graces: in judging of anther’s case, we ought to take the favorable side. Bildad puts Job in hope, that if he were indeed upright, he should yet see a good end of his present troubles. This is God’s way of enriching the souls of his people with graces and comforts. The beginning is small, but the progress is to perfection. Dawning light grows to noon-day.
Verses that belong to this explanation: 1-7
1Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,2How long wilt thou speak these [things]? and [how long shall] the words of thy mouth [be like] a strong wind?3Doth God pervert judgment? or doth the Almighty pervert justice?4If thy children have sinned against him, and he have cast them away for their transgression;5If thou wouldest seek unto God betimes, and make thy supplication to the Almighty;6If thou [wert] pure and upright; surely now he would awake for thee, and make the habitation of thy righteousness prosperous.7Though thy beginning was small, yet thy latter end should greatly increase.
Author: Matthew Henry Rank: Priest AD: 1714 Source:
Title: Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on the Whole Bible Author: Matthew Henry
Even Bildad is confused in his speech and is pulled in different directions by various doctrines, when he says, “If you yourself have not sinned, your sons have.” Thereby he does not believe one is punished for someone else. But he may be included (in his reasoning), for he delivered the transgression into their hand due to their own sin. In so doing, he alludes to the collapse [of the house], through which Job’s children died. “Son” he says, referring to the superior part in his speech, because Job had also daughters. Thus he indicates, since the sons, who had great value for Job, have sinned, obviously the daughters have sinned as well. - "Commentary on Job 8.4"
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Job 8:5 If thou wouldest seek unto God betimes, and make thy supplication to the Almighty;
Bildad reproves Job
Job spake much to the purpose; but Bildad, like an eager, angry disputant, turns it all off with this, How long wilt thou speak these things? Men’s meaning is not taken aright, and then they are rebuked, as if they were evil-doers. Even in disputes on religion, it is too common to treat others with sharpness, and their arguments with contempt. Bildad’s discourse shows that he had not a favorable opinion of Job’s character. Job owned that God did not pervert judgment; yet it did not therefore follow that his children were castaways, or that they died for some great transgression. Extraordinary afflictions are not always the punishment of extraordinary sins, sometimes they are the trials of extraordinary graces: in judging of anther’s case, we ought to take the favorable side. Bildad puts Job in hope, that if he were indeed upright, he should yet see a good end of his present troubles. This is God’s way of enriching the souls of his people with graces and comforts. The beginning is small, but the progress is to perfection. Dawning light grows to noon-day.
Verses that belong to this explanation: 1-7
1Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,2How long wilt thou speak these [things]? and [how long shall] the words of thy mouth [be like] a strong wind?3Doth God pervert judgment? or doth the Almighty pervert justice?4If thy children have sinned against him, and he have cast them away for their transgression;5If thou wouldest seek unto God betimes, and make thy supplication to the Almighty;6If thou [wert] pure and upright; surely now he would awake for thee, and make the habitation of thy righteousness prosperous.7Though thy beginning was small, yet thy latter end should greatly increase.
Author: Matthew Henry Rank: Priest AD: 1714 Source:
Title: Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on the Whole Bible Author: Matthew Henry
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Job 8:6 If thou [wert] pure and upright; surely now he would awake for thee, and make the habitation of thy righteousness prosperous.
Bildad reproves Job
Job spake much to the purpose; but Bildad, like an eager, angry disputant, turns it all off with this, How long wilt thou speak these things? Men’s meaning is not taken aright, and then they are rebuked, as if they were evil-doers. Even in disputes on religion, it is too common to treat others with sharpness, and their arguments with contempt. Bildad’s discourse shows that he had not a favorable opinion of Job’s character. Job owned that God did not pervert judgment; yet it did not therefore follow that his children were castaways, or that they died for some great transgression. Extraordinary afflictions are not always the punishment of extraordinary sins, sometimes they are the trials of extraordinary graces: in judging of anther’s case, we ought to take the favorable side. Bildad puts Job in hope, that if he were indeed upright, he should yet see a good end of his present troubles. This is God’s way of enriching the souls of his people with graces and comforts. The beginning is small, but the progress is to perfection. Dawning light grows to noon-day.
Verses that belong to this explanation: 1-7
1Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,2How long wilt thou speak these [things]? and [how long shall] the words of thy mouth [be like] a strong wind?3Doth God pervert judgment? or doth the Almighty pervert justice?4If thy children have sinned against him, and he have cast them away for their transgression;5If thou wouldest seek unto God betimes, and make thy supplication to the Almighty;6If thou [wert] pure and upright; surely now he would awake for thee, and make the habitation of thy righteousness prosperous.7Though thy beginning was small, yet thy latter end should greatly increase.
Author: Matthew Henry Rank: Priest AD: 1714 Source:
Title: Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on the Whole Bible Author: Matthew Henry
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Job 8:7 Though thy beginning was small, yet thy latter end should greatly increase.
Bildad reproves Job
Job spake much to the purpose; but Bildad, like an eager, angry disputant, turns it all off with this, How long wilt thou speak these things? Men’s meaning is not taken aright, and then they are rebuked, as if they were evil-doers. Even in disputes on religion, it is too common to treat others with sharpness, and their arguments with contempt. Bildad’s discourse shows that he had not a favorable opinion of Job’s character. Job owned that God did not pervert judgment; yet it did not therefore follow that his children were castaways, or that they died for some great transgression. Extraordinary afflictions are not always the punishment of extraordinary sins, sometimes they are the trials of extraordinary graces: in judging of anther’s case, we ought to take the favorable side. Bildad puts Job in hope, that if he were indeed upright, he should yet see a good end of his present troubles. This is God’s way of enriching the souls of his people with graces and comforts. The beginning is small, but the progress is to perfection. Dawning light grows to noon-day.
Verses that belong to this explanation: 1-7
1Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,2How long wilt thou speak these [things]? and [how long shall] the words of thy mouth [be like] a strong wind?3Doth God pervert judgment? or doth the Almighty pervert justice?4If thy children have sinned against him, and he have cast them away for their transgression;5If thou wouldest seek unto God betimes, and make thy supplication to the Almighty;6If thou [wert] pure and upright; surely now he would awake for thee, and make the habitation of thy righteousness prosperous.7Though thy beginning was small, yet thy latter end should greatly increase.
Author: Matthew Henry Rank: Priest AD: 1714 Source:
Title: Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on the Whole Bible Author: Matthew Henry
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Job 8:8 For enquire, I pray thee, of the former age, and prepare thyself to the search of their fathers:
Hypocrites will be destroyed
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 former times. Bildad refers to the testimony of the ancients. Those teach best that utter words out of their heart, that speak from an experience of spiritual and divine things. A bush growing in fallow ground, looking very green, but withering in dry weather, represents the hypocrite’s profession, which is maintained only in times of prosperity. The spider’s web, spun with great skill, but easily swept away, represents a man’s pretensions to religion when without the grace of God in his heart. A formal professor flatters himself in his own eyes, doubts not of his salvation, is secure, and cheats the world with his vain confidences. The flourishing of the tree, planted in the garden, striking root to the rock, yet after a time cut down and thrown aside, represents wicked men, when most firmly established, suddenly thrown down and forgotten. This doctrine of the vanity of a hypocrite’s confidence, or the prosperity of a wicked man, is sound; but it was not applicable to the case of Job, if confined to the present world.
Verses that belong to this explanation: 8-19
8For enquire, I pray thee, of the former age, and prepare thyself to the search of their fathers:9(For we [are but of] yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth [are] a shadow:)10Shall not they teach thee, [and] tell thee, and utter words out of their heart?11Can the rush grow up without mire? can the flag grow without water?12Whilst it [is] yet in his greenness, [and] not cut down, it withereth before any [other] herb.13So [are] the paths of all that forget God; and the hypocrite's hope shall perish:14Whose hope shall be cut off, and whose trust [shall be] a spider's web.15He shall lean upon his house, but it shall not stand: he shall hold it fast, but it shall not endure.16He [is] green before the sun, and his branch shooteth forth in his garden.17His roots are wrapped about the heap, [and] seeth the place of stones.18If he destroy him from his place, then [it] shall deny him, [saying], I have not seen thee.19Behold, this [is] the joy of his way, and out of the earth shall others grow.
Author: Matthew Henry Rank: Priest AD: 1714 Source:
Title: Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on the Whole Bible Author: Matthew Henry
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Job 8:9 (For we [are but of] yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth [are] a shadow:)
Hypocrites will be destroyed
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 former times. Bildad refers to the testimony of the ancients. Those teach best that utter words out of their heart, that speak from an experience of spiritual and divine things. A bush growing in fallow ground, looking very green, but withering in dry weather, represents the hypocrite’s profession, which is maintained only in times of prosperity. The spider’s web, spun with great skill, but easily swept away, represents a man’s pretensions to religion when without the grace of God in his heart. A formal professor flatters himself in his own eyes, doubts not of his salvation, is secure, and cheats the world with his vain confidences. The flourishing of the tree, planted in the garden, striking root to the rock, yet after a time cut down and thrown aside, represents wicked men, when most firmly established, suddenly thrown down and forgotten. This doctrine of the vanity of a hypocrite’s confidence, or the prosperity of a wicked man, is sound; but it was not applicable to the case of Job, if confined to the present world.
Verses that belong to this explanation: 8-19
8For enquire, I pray thee, of the former age, and prepare thyself to the search of their fathers:9(For we [are but of] yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth [are] a shadow:)10Shall not they teach thee, [and] tell thee, and utter words out of their heart?11Can the rush grow up without mire? can the flag grow without water?12Whilst it [is] yet in his greenness, [and] not cut down, it withereth before any [other] herb.13So [are] the paths of all that forget God; and the hypocrite's hope shall perish:14Whose hope shall be cut off, and whose trust [shall be] a spider's web.15He shall lean upon his house, but it shall not stand: he shall hold it fast, but it shall not endure.16He [is] green before the sun, and his branch shooteth forth in his garden.17His roots are wrapped about the heap, [and] seeth the place of stones.18If he destroy him from his place, then [it] shall deny him, [saying], I have not seen thee.19Behold, this [is] the joy of his way, and out of the earth shall others grow.
Author: Matthew Henry Rank: Priest AD: 1714 Source:
Title: Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on the Whole Bible Author: Matthew Henry
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Job 8:10 Shall not they teach thee, [and] tell thee, and utter words out of their heart?
Hypocrites will be destroyed
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 former times. Bildad refers to the testimony of the ancients. Those teach best that utter words out of their heart, that speak from an experience of spiritual and divine things. A bush growing in fallow ground, looking very green, but withering in dry weather, represents the hypocrite’s profession, which is maintained only in times of prosperity. The spider’s web, spun with great skill, but easily swept away, represents a man’s pretensions to religion when without the grace of God in his heart. A formal professor flatters himself in his own eyes, doubts not of his salvation, is secure, and cheats the world with his vain confidences. The flourishing of the tree, planted in the garden, striking root to the rock, yet after a time cut down and thrown aside, represents wicked men, when most firmly established, suddenly thrown down and forgotten. This doctrine of the vanity of a hypocrite’s confidence, or the prosperity of a wicked man, is sound; but it was not applicable to the case of Job, if confined to the present world.
Verses that belong to this explanation: 8-19
8For enquire, I pray thee, of the former age, and prepare thyself to the search of their fathers:9(For we [are but of] yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth [are] a shadow:)10Shall not they teach thee, [and] tell thee, and utter words out of their heart?11Can the rush grow up without mire? can the flag grow without water?12Whilst it [is] yet in his greenness, [and] not cut down, it withereth before any [other] herb.13So [are] the paths of all that forget God; and the hypocrite's hope shall perish:14Whose hope shall be cut off, and whose trust [shall be] a spider's web.15He shall lean upon his house, but it shall not stand: he shall hold it fast, but it shall not endure.16He [is] green before the sun, and his branch shooteth forth in his garden.17His roots are wrapped about the heap, [and] seeth the place of stones.18If he destroy him from his place, then [it] shall deny him, [saying], I have not seen thee.19Behold, this [is] the joy of his way, and out of the earth shall others grow.
Author: Matthew Henry Rank: Priest AD: 1714 Source:
Title: Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on the Whole Bible Author: Matthew Henry
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Job 8:11 Can the rush grow up without mire? can the flag grow without water?
Hypocrites will be destroyed
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 former times. Bildad refers to the testimony of the ancients. Those teach best that utter words out of their heart, that speak from an experience of spiritual and divine things. A bush growing in fallow ground, looking very green, but withering in dry weather, represents the hypocrite’s profession, which is maintained only in times of prosperity. The spider’s web, spun with great skill, but easily swept away, represents a man’s pretensions to religion when without the grace of God in his heart. A formal professor flatters himself in his own eyes, doubts not of his salvation, is secure, and cheats the world with his vain confidences. The flourishing of the tree, planted in the garden, striking root to the rock, yet after a time cut down and thrown aside, represents wicked men, when most firmly established, suddenly thrown down and forgotten. This doctrine of the vanity of a hypocrite’s confidence, or the prosperity of a wicked man, is sound; but it was not applicable to the case of Job, if confined to the present world.
Verses that belong to this explanation: 8-19
8For enquire, I pray thee, of the former age, and prepare thyself to the search of their fathers:9(For we [are but of] yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth [are] a shadow:)10Shall not they teach thee, [and] tell thee, and utter words out of their heart?11Can the rush grow up without mire? can the flag grow without water?12Whilst it [is] yet in his greenness, [and] not cut down, it withereth before any [other] herb.13So [are] the paths of all that forget God; and the hypocrite's hope shall perish:14Whose hope shall be cut off, and whose trust [shall be] a spider's web.15He shall lean upon his house, but it shall not stand: he shall hold it fast, but it shall not endure.16He [is] green before the sun, and his branch shooteth forth in his garden.17His roots are wrapped about the heap, [and] seeth the place of stones.18If he destroy him from his place, then [it] shall deny him, [saying], I have not seen thee.19Behold, this [is] the joy of his way, and out of the earth shall others grow.
Author: Matthew Henry Rank: Priest AD: 1714 Source:
Title: Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on the Whole Bible Author: Matthew Henry
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Job 8:12 Whilst it [is] yet in his greenness, [and] not cut down, it withereth before any [other] herb.
Hypocrites will be destroyed
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 former times. Bildad refers to the testimony of the ancients. Those teach best that utter words out of their heart, that speak from an experience of spiritual and divine things. A bush growing in fallow ground, looking very green, but withering in dry weather, represents the hypocrite’s profession, which is maintained only in times of prosperity. The spider’s web, spun with great skill, but easily swept away, represents a man’s pretensions to religion when without the grace of God in his heart. A formal professor flatters himself in his own eyes, doubts not of his salvation, is secure, and cheats the world with his vain confidences. The flourishing of the tree, planted in the garden, striking root to the rock, yet after a time cut down and thrown aside, represents wicked men, when most firmly established, suddenly thrown down and forgotten. This doctrine of the vanity of a hypocrite’s confidence, or the prosperity of a wicked man, is sound; but it was not applicable to the case of Job, if confined to the present world.
Verses that belong to this explanation: 8-19
8For enquire, I pray thee, of the former age, and prepare thyself to the search of their fathers:9(For we [are but of] yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth [are] a shadow:)10Shall not they teach thee, [and] tell thee, and utter words out of their heart?11Can the rush grow up without mire? can the flag grow without water?12Whilst it [is] yet in his greenness, [and] not cut down, it withereth before any [other] herb.13So [are] the paths of all that forget God; and the hypocrite's hope shall perish:14Whose hope shall be cut off, and whose trust [shall be] a spider's web.15He shall lean upon his house, but it shall not stand: he shall hold it fast, but it shall not endure.16He [is] green before the sun, and his branch shooteth forth in his garden.17His roots are wrapped about the heap, [and] seeth the place of stones.18If he destroy him from his place, then [it] shall deny him, [saying], I have not seen thee.19Behold, this [is] the joy of his way, and out of the earth shall others grow.
Author: Matthew Henry Rank: Priest AD: 1714 Source:
Title: Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on the Whole Bible Author: Matthew Henry
Previously Bildad said that the teaching is passed on from the ancestors and fathers to the following generations. Now he supports this with an example. He says, “As papyrus does not prosper without water and reeds do not grow if they are not watered … likewise someone cannot produce useful fruit whose spirit has not received nourishment from higher authorities.” But one can also say that human affairs are watered by providence as with water; if water is not added, they easily decrease and vanish. If, therefore, someone is hit by hardships but recovers from them, this happens with thanks to Providence. Even if what humans do seems to have a human root, it still does not last if Providence does not preside over it. Similarly the psalmist says beautifully, “Unless the Lord builds the house, those who build it labor in vain.” [Bildad then comments], “They wither before any other plant.” This means the same as Bildad’s earlier comment but is said about every plant. He seems to mean that, big or small, everything in life is subjected to Providence and withers if it does not pay attention to it. - "Commentary on Job 8.11–12"
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Job 8:13 So [are] the paths of all that forget God; and the hypocrite's hope shall perish:
Hypocrites will be destroyed
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 former times. Bildad refers to the testimony of the ancients. Those teach best that utter words out of their heart, that speak from an experience of spiritual and divine things. A bush growing in fallow ground, looking very green, but withering in dry weather, represents the hypocrite’s profession, which is maintained only in times of prosperity. The spider’s web, spun with great skill, but easily swept away, represents a man’s pretensions to religion when without the grace of God in his heart. A formal professor flatters himself in his own eyes, doubts not of his salvation, is secure, and cheats the world with his vain confidences. The flourishing of the tree, planted in the garden, striking root to the rock, yet after a time cut down and thrown aside, represents wicked men, when most firmly established, suddenly thrown down and forgotten. This doctrine of the vanity of a hypocrite’s confidence, or the prosperity of a wicked man, is sound; but it was not applicable to the case of Job, if confined to the present world.
Verses that belong to this explanation: 8-19
8For enquire, I pray thee, of the former age, and prepare thyself to the search of their fathers:9(For we [are but of] yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth [are] a shadow:)10Shall not they teach thee, [and] tell thee, and utter words out of their heart?11Can the rush grow up without mire? can the flag grow without water?12Whilst it [is] yet in his greenness, [and] not cut down, it withereth before any [other] herb.13So [are] the paths of all that forget God; and the hypocrite's hope shall perish:14Whose hope shall be cut off, and whose trust [shall be] a spider's web.15He shall lean upon his house, but it shall not stand: he shall hold it fast, but it shall not endure.16He [is] green before the sun, and his branch shooteth forth in his garden.17His roots are wrapped about the heap, [and] seeth the place of stones.18If he destroy him from his place, then [it] shall deny him, [saying], I have not seen thee.19Behold, this [is] the joy of his way, and out of the earth shall others grow.
Author: Matthew Henry Rank: Priest AD: 1714 Source:
Title: Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on the Whole Bible Author: Matthew Henry
Job has not really forgotten God. Being still subject to the test, Job has offered blessings and praise. That is why the final condition of the righteous is not comparable to the grass dried up by heat. But he “is like a tree planted by streams of water which yields its fruit in its season, and its leaves do not wither.” Indeed, by preserving the fruit of virtue, Job has caused the abundant foliage of this world’s goods to bloom. - "Homilies on Job 11.8.13a"
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Job 8:14 Whose hope shall be cut off, and whose trust [shall be] a spider's web.
Hypocrites will be destroyed
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 former times. Bildad refers to the testimony of the ancients. Those teach best that utter words out of their heart, that speak from an experience of spiritual and divine things. A bush growing in fallow ground, looking very green, but withering in dry weather, represents the hypocrite’s profession, which is maintained only in times of prosperity. The spider’s web, spun with great skill, but easily swept away, represents a man’s pretensions to religion when without the grace of God in his heart. A formal professor flatters himself in his own eyes, doubts not of his salvation, is secure, and cheats the world with his vain confidences. The flourishing of the tree, planted in the garden, striking root to the rock, yet after a time cut down and thrown aside, represents wicked men, when most firmly established, suddenly thrown down and forgotten. This doctrine of the vanity of a hypocrite’s confidence, or the prosperity of a wicked man, is sound; but it was not applicable to the case of Job, if confined to the present world.
Verses that belong to this explanation: 8-19
8For enquire, I pray thee, of the former age, and prepare thyself to the search of their fathers:9(For we [are but of] yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth [are] a shadow:)10Shall not they teach thee, [and] tell thee, and utter words out of their heart?11Can the rush grow up without mire? can the flag grow without water?12Whilst it [is] yet in his greenness, [and] not cut down, it withereth before any [other] herb.13So [are] the paths of all that forget God; and the hypocrite's hope shall perish:14Whose hope shall be cut off, and whose trust [shall be] a spider's web.15He shall lean upon his house, but it shall not stand: he shall hold it fast, but it shall not endure.16He [is] green before the sun, and his branch shooteth forth in his garden.17His roots are wrapped about the heap, [and] seeth the place of stones.18If he destroy him from his place, then [it] shall deny him, [saying], I have not seen thee.19Behold, this [is] the joy of his way, and out of the earth shall others grow.
Author: Matthew Henry Rank: Priest AD: 1714 Source:
Title: Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on the Whole Bible Author: Matthew Henry
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Job 8:15 He shall lean upon his house, but it shall not stand: he shall hold it fast, but it shall not endure.
Hypocrites will be destroyed
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 former times. Bildad refers to the testimony of the ancients. Those teach best that utter words out of their heart, that speak from an experience of spiritual and divine things. A bush growing in fallow ground, looking very green, but withering in dry weather, represents the hypocrite’s profession, which is maintained only in times of prosperity. The spider’s web, spun with great skill, but easily swept away, represents a man’s pretensions to religion when without the grace of God in his heart. A formal professor flatters himself in his own eyes, doubts not of his salvation, is secure, and cheats the world with his vain confidences. The flourishing of the tree, planted in the garden, striking root to the rock, yet after a time cut down and thrown aside, represents wicked men, when most firmly established, suddenly thrown down and forgotten. This doctrine of the vanity of a hypocrite’s confidence, or the prosperity of a wicked man, is sound; but it was not applicable to the case of Job, if confined to the present world.
Verses that belong to this explanation: 8-19
8For enquire, I pray thee, of the former age, and prepare thyself to the search of their fathers:9(For we [are but of] yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth [are] a shadow:)10Shall not they teach thee, [and] tell thee, and utter words out of their heart?11Can the rush grow up without mire? can the flag grow without water?12Whilst it [is] yet in his greenness, [and] not cut down, it withereth before any [other] herb.13So [are] the paths of all that forget God; and the hypocrite's hope shall perish:14Whose hope shall be cut off, and whose trust [shall be] a spider's web.15He shall lean upon his house, but it shall not stand: he shall hold it fast, but it shall not endure.16He [is] green before the sun, and his branch shooteth forth in his garden.17His roots are wrapped about the heap, [and] seeth the place of stones.18If he destroy him from his place, then [it] shall deny him, [saying], I have not seen thee.19Behold, this [is] the joy of his way, and out of the earth shall others grow.
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Title: Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on the Whole Bible Author: Matthew Henry
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Job 8:16 He [is] green before the sun, and his branch shooteth forth in his garden.
Hypocrites will be destroyed
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 former times. Bildad refers to the testimony of the ancients. Those teach best that utter words out of their heart, that speak from an experience of spiritual and divine things. A bush growing in fallow ground, looking very green, but withering in dry weather, represents the hypocrite’s profession, which is maintained only in times of prosperity. The spider’s web, spun with great skill, but easily swept away, represents a man’s pretensions to religion when without the grace of God in his heart. A formal professor flatters himself in his own eyes, doubts not of his salvation, is secure, and cheats the world with his vain confidences. The flourishing of the tree, planted in the garden, striking root to the rock, yet after a time cut down and thrown aside, represents wicked men, when most firmly established, suddenly thrown down and forgotten. This doctrine of the vanity of a hypocrite’s confidence, or the prosperity of a wicked man, is sound; but it was not applicable to the case of Job, if confined to the present world.
Verses that belong to this explanation: 8-19
8For enquire, I pray thee, of the former age, and prepare thyself to the search of their fathers:9(For we [are but of] yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth [are] a shadow:)10Shall not they teach thee, [and] tell thee, and utter words out of their heart?11Can the rush grow up without mire? can the flag grow without water?12Whilst it [is] yet in his greenness, [and] not cut down, it withereth before any [other] herb.13So [are] the paths of all that forget God; and the hypocrite's hope shall perish:14Whose hope shall be cut off, and whose trust [shall be] a spider's web.15He shall lean upon his house, but it shall not stand: he shall hold it fast, but it shall not endure.16He [is] green before the sun, and his branch shooteth forth in his garden.17His roots are wrapped about the heap, [and] seeth the place of stones.18If he destroy him from his place, then [it] shall deny him, [saying], I have not seen thee.19Behold, this [is] the joy of his way, and out of the earth shall others grow.
Author: Matthew Henry Rank: Priest AD: 1714 Source:
Title: Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on the Whole Bible Author: Matthew Henry
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Job 8:17 His roots are wrapped about the heap, [and] seeth the place of stones.
Hypocrites will be destroyed
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 former times. Bildad refers to the testimony of the ancients. Those teach best that utter words out of their heart, that speak from an experience of spiritual and divine things. A bush growing in fallow ground, looking very green, but withering in dry weather, represents the hypocrite’s profession, which is maintained only in times of prosperity. The spider’s web, spun with great skill, but easily swept away, represents a man’s pretensions to religion when without the grace of God in his heart. A formal professor flatters himself in his own eyes, doubts not of his salvation, is secure, and cheats the world with his vain confidences. The flourishing of the tree, planted in the garden, striking root to the rock, yet after a time cut down and thrown aside, represents wicked men, when most firmly established, suddenly thrown down and forgotten. This doctrine of the vanity of a hypocrite’s confidence, or the prosperity of a wicked man, is sound; but it was not applicable to the case of Job, if confined to the present world.
Verses that belong to this explanation: 8-19
8For enquire, I pray thee, of the former age, and prepare thyself to the search of their fathers:9(For we [are but of] yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth [are] a shadow:)10Shall not they teach thee, [and] tell thee, and utter words out of their heart?11Can the rush grow up without mire? can the flag grow without water?12Whilst it [is] yet in his greenness, [and] not cut down, it withereth before any [other] herb.13So [are] the paths of all that forget God; and the hypocrite's hope shall perish:14Whose hope shall be cut off, and whose trust [shall be] a spider's web.15He shall lean upon his house, but it shall not stand: he shall hold it fast, but it shall not endure.16He [is] green before the sun, and his branch shooteth forth in his garden.17His roots are wrapped about the heap, [and] seeth the place of stones.18If he destroy him from his place, then [it] shall deny him, [saying], I have not seen thee.19Behold, this [is] the joy of his way, and out of the earth shall others grow.
Author: Matthew Henry Rank: Priest AD: 1714 Source:
Title: Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on the Whole Bible Author: Matthew Henry
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Job 8:18 If he destroy him from his place, then [it] shall deny him, [saying], I have not seen thee.
Hypocrites will be destroyed
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 former times. Bildad refers to the testimony of the ancients. Those teach best that utter words out of their heart, that speak from an experience of spiritual and divine things. A bush growing in fallow ground, looking very green, but withering in dry weather, represents the hypocrite’s profession, which is maintained only in times of prosperity. The spider’s web, spun with great skill, but easily swept away, represents a man’s pretensions to religion when without the grace of God in his heart. A formal professor flatters himself in his own eyes, doubts not of his salvation, is secure, and cheats the world with his vain confidences. The flourishing of the tree, planted in the garden, striking root to the rock, yet after a time cut down and thrown aside, represents wicked men, when most firmly established, suddenly thrown down and forgotten. This doctrine of the vanity of a hypocrite’s confidence, or the prosperity of a wicked man, is sound; but it was not applicable to the case of Job, if confined to the present world.
Verses that belong to this explanation: 8-19
8For enquire, I pray thee, of the former age, and prepare thyself to the search of their fathers:9(For we [are but of] yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth [are] a shadow:)10Shall not they teach thee, [and] tell thee, and utter words out of their heart?11Can the rush grow up without mire? can the flag grow without water?12Whilst it [is] yet in his greenness, [and] not cut down, it withereth before any [other] herb.13So [are] the paths of all that forget God; and the hypocrite's hope shall perish:14Whose hope shall be cut off, and whose trust [shall be] a spider's web.15He shall lean upon his house, but it shall not stand: he shall hold it fast, but it shall not endure.16He [is] green before the sun, and his branch shooteth forth in his garden.17His roots are wrapped about the heap, [and] seeth the place of stones.18If he destroy him from his place, then [it] shall deny him, [saying], I have not seen thee.19Behold, this [is] the joy of his way, and out of the earth shall others grow.
Author: Matthew Henry Rank: Priest AD: 1714 Source:
Title: Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on the Whole Bible Author: Matthew Henry
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Job 8:19 Behold, this [is] the joy of his way, and out of the earth shall others grow.
Hypocrites will be destroyed
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 former times. Bildad refers to the testimony of the ancients. Those teach best that utter words out of their heart, that speak from an experience of spiritual and divine things. A bush growing in fallow ground, looking very green, but withering in dry weather, represents the hypocrite’s profession, which is maintained only in times of prosperity. The spider’s web, spun with great skill, but easily swept away, represents a man’s pretensions to religion when without the grace of God in his heart. A formal professor flatters himself in his own eyes, doubts not of his salvation, is secure, and cheats the world with his vain confidences. The flourishing of the tree, planted in the garden, striking root to the rock, yet after a time cut down and thrown aside, represents wicked men, when most firmly established, suddenly thrown down and forgotten. This doctrine of the vanity of a hypocrite’s confidence, or the prosperity of a wicked man, is sound; but it was not applicable to the case of Job, if confined to the present world.
Verses that belong to this explanation: 8-19
8For enquire, I pray thee, of the former age, and prepare thyself to the search of their fathers:9(For we [are but of] yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth [are] a shadow:)10Shall not they teach thee, [and] tell thee, and utter words out of their heart?11Can the rush grow up without mire? can the flag grow without water?12Whilst it [is] yet in his greenness, [and] not cut down, it withereth before any [other] herb.13So [are] the paths of all that forget God; and the hypocrite's hope shall perish:14Whose hope shall be cut off, and whose trust [shall be] a spider's web.15He shall lean upon his house, but it shall not stand: he shall hold it fast, but it shall not endure.16He [is] green before the sun, and his branch shooteth forth in his garden.17His roots are wrapped about the heap, [and] seeth the place of stones.18If he destroy him from his place, then [it] shall deny him, [saying], I have not seen thee.19Behold, this [is] the joy of his way, and out of the earth shall others grow.
Author: Matthew Henry Rank: Priest AD: 1714 Source:
Title: Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on the Whole Bible Author: Matthew Henry
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Job 8:20 Behold, God will not cast away a perfect [man], neither will he help the evil doers:
Bildad applies God’s just dealing to Job
Bildad here assures Job, that as he was so he should fare; therefore they concluded, that as he fared so he was. God will not cast away an upright man; he may be cast down for a time, but he shall not be cast away for ever. Sin brings ruin on persons and families. Yet to argue, that Job was an ungodly, wicked man, was unjust and uncharitable. The mistake in these reasonings arose from Job’s friends not distinguishing between the present state of trial and discipline, and the future state of final judgment. May we choose the portion, possess the confidence, bear the cross, and die the death of the righteous; and, in the mean time, be careful neither to wound others by rash judgments, nor to distress ourselves needlessly about the opinions of our fellow-creatures.
Verses that belong to this explanation: 20-22
20Behold, God will not cast away a perfect [man], neither will he help the evil doers:21Till he fill thy mouth with laughing, and thy lips with rejoicing.22They that hate thee shall be clothed with shame; and the dwelling place of the wicked shall come to nought.
Author: Matthew Henry Rank: Priest AD: 1714 Source:
Title: Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on the Whole Bible Author: Matthew Henry
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Job 8:21 Till he fill thy mouth with laughing, and thy lips with rejoicing.
Bildad applies God’s just dealing to Job
Bildad here assures Job, that as he was so he should fare; therefore they concluded, that as he fared so he was. God will not cast away an upright man; he may be cast down for a time, but he shall not be cast away for ever. Sin brings ruin on persons and families. Yet to argue, that Job was an ungodly, wicked man, was unjust and uncharitable. The mistake in these reasonings arose from Job’s friends not distinguishing between the present state of trial and discipline, and the future state of final judgment. May we choose the portion, possess the confidence, bear the cross, and die the death of the righteous; and, in the mean time, be careful neither to wound others by rash judgments, nor to distress ourselves needlessly about the opinions of our fellow-creatures.
Verses that belong to this explanation: 20-22
20Behold, God will not cast away a perfect [man], neither will he help the evil doers:21Till he fill thy mouth with laughing, and thy lips with rejoicing.22They that hate thee shall be clothed with shame; and the dwelling place of the wicked shall come to nought.
Author: Matthew Henry Rank: Priest AD: 1714 Source:
Title: Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on the Whole Bible Author: Matthew Henry
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Job 8:22 They that hate thee shall be clothed with shame; and the dwelling place of the wicked shall come to nought.
Bildad applies God’s just dealing to Job
Bildad here assures Job, that as he was so he should fare; therefore they concluded, that as he fared so he was. God will not cast away an upright man; he may be cast down for a time, but he shall not be cast away for ever. Sin brings ruin on persons and families. Yet to argue, that Job was an ungodly, wicked man, was unjust and uncharitable. The mistake in these reasonings arose from Job’s friends not distinguishing between the present state of trial and discipline, and the future state of final judgment. May we choose the portion, possess the confidence, bear the cross, and die the death of the righteous; and, in the mean time, be careful neither to wound others by rash judgments, nor to distress ourselves needlessly about the opinions of our fellow-creatures.
Verses that belong to this explanation: 20-22
20Behold, God will not cast away a perfect [man], neither will he help the evil doers:21Till he fill thy mouth with laughing, and thy lips with rejoicing.22They that hate thee shall be clothed with shame; and the dwelling place of the wicked shall come to nought.
Author: Matthew Henry Rank: Priest AD: 1714 Source:
Title: Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on the Whole Bible Author: Matthew Henry
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