“ The snare is laidc for him in the ground, and a trap for him in the way. ”
The snare is laid - All this language is taken from the modes of taking wild beasts; but it is not possible to designate with absolute certainty the methods in which it was done. The word used he...
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, howev...
laid . hidden.
The snare is laid for him in the ground, and a trap for him in the way.
The snare is laid for him in the ground, and a trap for him in the way. No JFB commentary on this verse.
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...
XV. A SCHEME OF WORLD RULE Job 18:1-21 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,...
“Cast into a Net” Job 18:1-21 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....
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...
(6) The light shall be dark in his tabernacle, and his candle shall be put out with him. (7) The steps of his strength shall be straitened, and his own counsel shall cast him down. (8) For he is cast...
The snare [is] laid for him in the ground ,.... Or "hidden" r there; for, as Solomon says, "in vain the net is spread in sight of any bird", Proverbs 1:17 ; and in vain it is to lay a snare publicl...
The snare [is] laid for him in the ground, and a trap for him in the way. Ver. 10. The snare is laid for him in the ground, &c. ] This heap of words, net, snare, gin, trap, cords, showeth that...
The gin shall take him by the heel That is, take fast hold on him, so as to keep him in those distresses. And the robber shall prevail against him Hebrew, צמים, tsammim, the horrible or terrib...
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 J...
Miserable Condition of the Wicked. B. C. 1520. 5 Yea, the light of the wicked shall be...
In the ground; where he doth not expect nor discern it. The former snare he laid for himself, but this was laid for him by another.
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, o...
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.” Is...
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...
EXPOSITION Job 18:1-18 Bildad's second speech is no improvement upon his first ( Job 8:1-18 .). He has evidently been exceedingly nettled by Job's contemptuous words concerning his "comfort...
Bildad Reckons Job with the Hardened Sinners
Ezekiel 12:13 ; Psalms 11:6 ; Romans 11:9