“ He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world. ”
He shall be driven from light into darkness - Margin, “They shall drive him.” The meaning is, that he should be driven from a state of prosperity to one of calamity. And chased out of the worl...
He shall be driven from (m) light into darkness, and chased out of the world. (m) He will fall from prosperity to adversity.
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...
He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world. He shall be driven from light - He shall be taken off by a violent death. And chased out of the world - The wicked is Driven...
He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world. Light ... darkness - existence-nonexistence.
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...
He shall be driven from light into darkness ,.... Either from the light of outward prosperity, formerly enjoyed by him, into the darkness of adversity; or rather from the light of the living, the li...
He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world. Ver. 18. He shall be driven out of light into darkness ] Heb. They shall drive him; sc. the devils shall drive him out o...
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...
He shall be driven, Heb. they shall drive him , i.e. his enemies, or those whom he hath oppressed; or they whom God shall appoint to do it, whether angels or men. Or it is an impersonal speech, an...
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
Daniel 4:33 ; Daniel 5:21 ; Isaiah 17:13 ; Isaiah 17:14 ; Isaiah 8:21 ; Isaiah 8:22 ; Job 10:22 ; Job 11:14 ; Job 20:8 ; Job 3:20 ; Jude 1:13 ; Proverbs 14:32
Darkness — From a prosperous life to disgrace and misery, and to the grave, the land of darkness.