“ Terrors shall make him afraid on every side, and shall drived him to his feet. ”
Terrors shall make him afraid - He shall be constantly subject to alarms, and shall never feel secure. “Terrors here are represented as allegorical persons, like the Furies in the Greek poets.” N...
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...
drive him to his feet . follow at his feet. Compare 1 Samuel 25:42 .
Terrors shall make him afraid on every side, and shall drive him to his feet.
And shall drive him to his feet— And shall be spread around at his feet ] Houbigant. The same metaphor seems to be continued.
Terrors shall make him afraid on every side, and shall drive him to his feet. Terrors - often mentioned in this book ( Job 18:14 ; Job 24:17 , etc.) The terrors excited through an evil consc...
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...
Shall drive him to his feet. — Comp. Job 15:21 . One feels very much tempted to understand this, as the English undoubtedly suggests, shall startle him to his feet, but the true meaning is, more...
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...
Terrors shall make him afraid on every side ,.... Make him a "Magormissabib", or "terror on every side", as Pashur was a terror to himself, Jeremiah 20:3 , and all his friends about him; these terr...
Terrors shall make him afraid on every side, and shall drive him to his feet. Ver. 11. Terrors shall make him afraid on every side ] These terrors are, as it were, the cruel sergeants and mercil...
Terrors shall make him afraid Both from men and from God, and also from his own unquiet mind and guilty conscience. And drive him to his feet Shall force him to flee different ways, being safe no...
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...
11 Terrors shall make him afraid on every side, and shall drive him to his feet. 12 His strength shall be hungerbitten, and destruction shall be ready at his side. 13 It shall devour th...
Terrors; both from men, and from God, and from his own unquiet mind and guilty conscience. Shall drive him to his feet; shall force him to flee hither and thither, and he knows not whither, being...
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
2 Corinthians 5:11 ; 2 Kings 7:6 ; 2 Kings 7:7 ; Jeremiah 20:3 ; Jeremiah 20:4 ; Jeremiah 46:5 ; Jeremiah 49:29 ; Jeremiah 6:25 ; Job 15:21 ; Job 20:25 ; Job 6:4 ; Leviticus 26:36 ; Prov...