Job 18:12 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ His strength shall be hungerbitten, and destruction shall be ready at his side. ”

• Job 18:12 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  His strength shall be hungerbitten - Shall be exhausted by hunger or famine. And destruction shall be ready at his side - Hebrew “Shall be fitted” נכוּן nākûn “to his side.” Some have s...

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• Job 18:12 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  His strength shall be (g) hungerbitten, and destruction [shall be] ready at his side. (g) That which should nourish him will be consumed by famine.

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• Job 18:12 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  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...

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• Job 18:12 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  strength, &c. i.e. shall be weakened by hunger. Same word as Job 18:7 , not same as Job 18:13 .

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• Job 18:12 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  His strength shall be hungerbitten, and destruction shall be ready at his side.

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• Job 18:12 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  His strength shall be hunger-bitten— The Vulgate renders this, His strength shall be eaten by famine; which appears to be a good translation, and still keeps up the image in the former verses: as...

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• Job 18:12 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  His strength shall be hungerbitten, and destruction shall be ready at his side. The Hebrew is brief and bold, 'his strength is hungry.' Besides dangers at every step, the sinner's own strength...

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• Job 18:12 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  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...

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• Job 18:12 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  His strength. — By “strength” some understand his firstborn son, as Genesis 49:3 , but it is not necessary to take it otherwise than literally. Destruction shall be ready at his side. — Or, acc...

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• Job 18:12 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  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,...

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• Job 18:12 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  “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....

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• Job 18:12 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  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...

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• Job 18:12 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  (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...

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• Job 18:12 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  His strength shall be hungerbitten ,.... Or "shall be famine" u, or hunger, that is, shall be weakened by it; famine is a sore evil, and greatly weakens thee natural strength of men; want of food wi...

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• Job 18:12 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  His strength shall be hungerbitten, and destruction [shall be] ready at his side. Ver. 12. His strength shall be hunger bitten ] Heb. His strength (or wealth) shall be famine, Fit famelicum robur...

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• Job 18:12 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  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...

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• Job 18:12 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  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...

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• Job 18:12 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

        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...

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• Job 18:12 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  His strength; either, 1. His children, which are, and are called, a man's strength, as Genesis 49:3 Psalms 127:4,5 . Or rather, 2. His wealth, and power, and prosperity. Hunger-bitten, or...

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• Job 18:12 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  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...

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• Job 18:12 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  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...

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• Job 18:12 - The Biblical Illustrator

  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...

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• Job 18:12 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  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...

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• Job 18:12 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  Bildad Reckons Job with the Hardened Sinners

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• Job 18:12 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 Samuel 2:36 ; 1 Samuel 2:5 ; 1 Thessalonians 5:3 ; 2 Peter 2:3 ; Job 15:23 ; Job 15:24 ; Psalms 109:10 ; Psalms 34:10 ; Psalms 7:12-14

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