“ His roots shall be dried up beneath, and above shall his branch be cut off. ”
His roots shall be dried up - Another image of complete desolation - where he is compared to a tree that is dead - a figure whose meaning is obvious, and which often occurs; see Job 15:30 , note...
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...
His roots shall be dried up beneath, and above shall his branch be cut off. Job 18:16 His roots shall be dried up - his branch be cut off - He shall be as utterly destroyed, both in himself, his p...
His roots shall be dried up beneath, and above shall his branch be cut off. Roots - himself. Branch - his children ( Job 8:12 ; Job 15:30 ; Malachi 4:1 , "The day that cometh shall burn...
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...
His roots shall be dried up. — With tacit allusion to what he had said in Job 8:12 , and also to the destruction of Job’s own offspring, which had already been accomplished.
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...
His roots shall be dried up beneath ,.... Wicked men are sometimes compared to trees; to trees of the wood, barren, and unfruitful; to trees without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots; and s...
His roots shall be dried up beneath, and above shall his branch be cut off. Ver. 16. His roots shall be dried up beneath, &c. ] The meaning is, saith Diodati, he shall be deprived of God's gra...
His roots shall be dried up , &c. That is, he shall be destroyed, both root and branch; both himself and his posterity. His remembrance shall perish Instead of that honour and renown which he...
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...
i.e. He shall be destroyed, both root and branch, i.e. both himself and his posterity. Compare Zechariah 4:1 .
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
Amos 2:9 ; Hosea 9:16 ; Isaiah 5:24 ; Job 15:30 ; Job 29:19 ; Job 5:3 ; Job 5:4 ; Malachi 4:1