Job 18:5 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out, and the spark of his fire shall not shine. ”

• Job 18:5 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  Yea - Truly; or, behold. Bildad here commences his remarks on the certain destiny of the wicked, and strings together a number of apparently proverbial sayings, showing that calamity in various f...

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• Job 18:5 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  Yea, the light of the wicked shall be (e) put out, and the spark of his fire shall not shine. (e) When the wicked is in his prosperity, then God changes his state: and this is his ordinary working f...

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• Job 18:5 - 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 18:5 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  light. The reference is to the universal practice of burning. light during the night. wicked . lawless. Hebrew. rasha. App-44.

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• Job 18:5 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out, and the spark of his fire shall not shine. The light of the wicked shall be put out - Some think it would be better to translate the original, "Let the...

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• Job 18:5 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  Yea, the light of the wicked— Rather let the light of the wicked be put out. Heath.

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• Job 18:5 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out, and the spark of his fire shall not shine. That ( Job 18:4 ) cannot be. Yea - however much the wicked kick against it. The decree of God is u...

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• Job 18:5 - 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 18:5 - 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 18:5 - 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 18:5 - 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 18:5 - 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 18:5 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out ,.... Or "nevertheless" m; notwithstanding all this disregard and inattention to us, and contempt of us, and all the rage, and wrath, and pride, and hau...

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• Job 18:5 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out, and the spark of his fire shall not shine. Ver. 5. Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out ] The ensuing description of a wicked man's unhappin...

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• Job 18:5 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Yea Depend upon it, the thing is true and certain, notwithstanding thy dissatisfaction and opposition to it; the light of the wicked shall be put out All their glory and felicity shall perish: a...

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• Job 18:5 - 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 18:5 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Miserable Condition of the Wicked. B. C. 1520.       5 Yea, the light of the wicked shall be...

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• Job 18:5 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  Yea; the thing is true and certain, notwithstanding thy dissatisfaction and opposition against it. The light of the wicked shall be put out; all their glory and felicity shall perish. The spark...

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• Job 18:5 - 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 18:5 - 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 18:5 - 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 18:5 - 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 18:5 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  Yea, that is, in spite of all Job's ranting, the light of the wicked shall be put out, his prosperity utterly destroyed, and the spark of his fire shall not shine, the flames of his snug and safe...

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• Job 18:5 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Isaiah 50:11 ; Job 20:5 ; Proverbs 13:9 ; Proverbs 20:20 ; Proverbs 24:20 ; Proverbs 4:19

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