Job 18:4 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ He teareth himselfa in his anger: shall the earth be forsaken for thee? and shall the rock be removed out of his place? ”

• Job 18:4 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  He teareth himself - More correctly, “thou that tearest thyself in anger!” It is not an affirmation about Job, but it is a direct address to him. The meaning is, that he was in the paryoxysms of...

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• Job 18:4 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  (c) He teareth himself in his anger: shall the (d) earth be forsaken for thee? and shall the rock be removed out of his place? (c) That is, like a madman. (d) Shall God change the order of nature f...

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• Job 18:4 - 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 18:4 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  himself . his soul. Hebrew. nephesh. App-13. shall. ? Figure of speech Erotesis.

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• Job 18:4 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  He teareth himself in his anger: shall the earth be forsaken for thee? and shall the rock be removed out of his place? He teareth himself in his anger - Literally, Rending his own soul in his anger;...

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• Job 18:4 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  He teareth himself in his anger— Thou sayest, he collects all his fury against me. But shall the earth be forsaken, &c.? Houbigant. See the introductory note on the first verse, and ch. Job...

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• Job 18:4 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  He teareth himself in his anger: shall the earth be forsaken for thee? and shall the rock be removed out of his place? Rather, turning to Job, 'Thou that tearest thyself in anger' ( Job 5:2 ,...

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• Job 18:4 - 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 18:4 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  He teareth himself in his anger. — As Eliphaz had charged Job ( Job 15:4 ) with the evil tendencies of his speeches, so Bildad here compares him to a maniac, and assumes that the effect of his teac...

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• Job 18:4 - 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 18:4 - 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 18:4 - 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 18:4 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  (4) He teareth himself in his anger: shall the earth be forsaken for thee? and shall the rock be removed out of his place? (5) В¶ Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out, and the spark of his f...

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• Job 18:4 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  He teareth himself in his anger ,.... Or "his soul" l, meaning Job, and referring to what he had said in Job 16:9 ; Now, says Bildad, it is neither God nor man that tears you, it is you yourself; r...

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• Job 18:4 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  He teareth himself in his anger: shall the earth be forsaken for thee? and shall the rock be removed out of his place? Ver. 4. He teareth himself in his anger ] Here he chargeth Job with desperate...

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• Job 18:4 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  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...

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• Job 18:4 - 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 18:4 - 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 18:4 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  He teareth himself, i.e. Job, of whom he speaks in the third person for the second, as Job 12:4 , Job 16:7 Obadiah 1:3 . Or, O thou that tearest thyself ! Thou complainest of us for vexing...

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• Job 18:4 - 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 18:4 - 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 18:4 - 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 18:4 - 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 18:4 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  Bildad Attacks Job

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• Job 18:4 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Ezekiel 9:9 ; Isaiah 54:10 ; Job 13:14 ; Job 14:18 ; Job 16:9 ; Job 40:8 ; Job 5:2 ; Jonah 4:9 ; Luke 9:39 ; Mark 9:18 ; Matthew 24:35

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• Job 18:4 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  He — Job. Thou art thy own tormentor. Forsaken — Shall God give over the government of the earth for thy sake, to prevent thy complaints and clamours? Shall the counsels of God, which are more immo...

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