Job 18:2 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ How long will it be ere ye make an end of words? mark, and afterwards we will speak. ”

• Job 18:2 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  How long will it be ere ye make an end of words? - It has been made a question to whom this is addressed. It is in the plural number, and it is not usual in Hebrew when addressing an individual t...

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• Job 18:2 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  How long [will it be ere] (a) ye make an end of words? (b) mark, and afterwards we will speak. (a) Who count yourselves just as ( Job 12:4 ). (b) Whom you take to be only beasts, as in ( Job 12:7 )...

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• Job 18:2 - 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 18:2 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  How long... ? Figure of speech Erotesis. App-6. an end: or,. perversion.

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• Job 18:2 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  How long will it be ere ye make an end of words? mark, and afterwards we will speak. How long will it be ere ye make an end - It is difficult to say to whom this address is made: being in the plura...

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• Job 18:2 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  How long, &c.— How long will you hunt after cavils against established maxims? speak your meaning plainly, and we will reply. The sense is, that it was in vain to puzzle the cause with cavils...

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• Job 18:2 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  How long will it be ere ye make an end of words? mark, and afterwards we will speak. Ye - the other two friends of Job, whom Bildad charges with having spoken mere "words" - i:e., empty speec...

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• Job 18:2 - 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 18:2 - 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 18:2 - 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 18:2 - 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 18:2 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  (1) В¶ Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said, (2) How long will it be ere ye make an end of words? mark, and afterwards we will speak. (3) Wherefore are we counted as beasts, and reputed vile in...

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• Job 18:2 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  How long [will it be] ere ye make an end of words ?.... Because these words are expressed the plural number, some think more persons than one are addressed, either Eliphaz and Job together, who are...

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• Job 18:2 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  How long [will it be ere] ye make an end of words? mark, and afterwards we will speak. Ver. 2. How long will it be ere you make an end of words? ] First he taxeth Job with being talkative, when he...

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• Job 18:2 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  How long will it be ere you wake an end How long shall we continue this dispute? Why do not you, my brethren, give over discoursing with Job, who is so transported by his passions, as not to be fit...

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• Job 18:2 - 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 18:2 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Second Address of Eliphaz. B. C. 1520.       1 Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,   2...

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• Job 18:2 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  Ere ye; either, 1. You my brethren. Why do you not give over discoursing with Job, who is wholly transported with rage, and not fit to be discoursed with, at least until both you and he have bett...

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• Job 18:2 - 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 18:2 - 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 18:2 - 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 18:2 - 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 18:2 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  Bildad Attacks Job

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• Job 18:2 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  James 1:19 ; Job 11:2 ; Job 13:5 ; Job 13:6 ; Job 16:2 ; Job 16:3 ; Job 21:2 ; Job 3:17 ; Job 3:5 ; Job 3:6 ; Job 33:1 ; Job 8:2 ; Proverbs 18:13

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• Job 18:2 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  Ye — Thou, O Job; of whom he speaks here, as also Job 18:3 , in the plural number, as was a common idiotism of the Eastern language, to speak thus of one person, especially where he was one of emi...

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