“ Wherefore are we counted as beasts, and reputed vile in your sight? ”
Wherefore are we counted as beasts? - “ Why are we treated in your remarks as if we had no sense, and were unworthy of sound argument in reply to what we say?” It is possible that there may be ref...
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...
Wherefore... ? Figure of speech Erotesis. App-6. vile: or, stupid. your sight. Septuagint and Syriac read "thine eyes".
Wherefore are we counted as beasts, and reputed vile in your sight? Counted as beasts - Thou treatest us as if we had neither reason nor understanding.
Wherefore are we counted as beasts? &c.— This refers to the 10th verse in the former chapter, where Job had, indeed, treated them very freely.
Wherefore are we counted as beasts, and reputed vile in your sight? Beasts - alluding to what Job said ( Job 12:7 ; so Isaiah 1:3 ; Psalms 49:12 ; Psalms 49:20 ). Vile - rather, from a...
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...
Wherefore are we counted as beasts. — Referring to Job’s words ( Job 13:4 , &c., Job 16:2 , &c.). In this chapter there is a marked increase in his harshness and violence. It has, however,...
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...
(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...
Wherefore are we counted as beasts ,.... This seems to refer to Job 12:7 ; where Job sends them to the beasts, to get knowledge and instruction; and therefore it was concluded he reckoned them as...
Wherefore are we counted as beasts, [and] reputed vile in your sight? Ver. 3. Wherefore are we counted as beasts, &c. ] Here he taxeth Job with pride and arrogance; grounding upon those words...
Wherefore are we counted as beasts? That is, ignorant and stupid men, Job 17:4 ; Job 17:10 ; and reputed vile in your sight Hebrew, נשׂמנו, nitmeinu, polluted or unclean; that is, not fit t...
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...
Second Address of Eliphaz. B. C. 1520. 1 Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said, 2...
As beasts, i.e. ignorant, blockish, and stupid men, Job 17:4,10 . Vile, Heb. polluted , or unclean , i.e. not fit to be conversed or discoursed with; or contemptible, as such things are. In...
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 Attacks Job
Ecclesiastes 3:18 ; Job 12:7 ; Job 12:8 ; Job 17:10 ; Job 17:4 ; Psalms 73:22 ; Romans 12:10
Beasts — Ignorant, and stupid men, Job 17:4 , Job 17:10 .