Job 18:6 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ The light shall be dark in his tabernacle, and his candleb shall be put out with him. ”

• Job 18:6 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  And his candle - Margin, lamp. The reference is to a lamp that was suspended from the ceiling. The Arabians are fond of this image. Thus, they say, “Bad fortune has extinguished my lamp.” Of a ma...

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• Job 18:6 - 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 18:6 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  dark. Hebrew. hashak: see note on Job 3:6 . showing that the man is dead, and not alive to keep the light burning. tabernacle . tent. candle . lamp. with him . over him: see note on "dark"...

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• Job 18:6 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  The light shall be dark in his tabernacle, and his candle shall be put out with him. The light shall be dark in his tabernacle - His property shall be destroyed, his house pillaged, and himself and h...

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• Job 18:6 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  The light shall be dark in his tabernacle, and his candle shall be put out with him. Candle - the lamp which in the East is usually fastened to the ceiling. Oil abounds in those regions, and...

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• Job 18:6 - 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 18:6 - 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 18:6 - 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 18:6 - 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 18:6 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  (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...

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• Job 18:6 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  The light shall the dark in his tabernacle ,.... Not the light of the eye, in the tabernacle of his body, rather the light of nature and reason in him; and when that "light [that is] in [a man becom...

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• Job 18:6 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  The light shall be dark in his tabernacle, and his candle shall be put out with him. Ver. 6. The light shall be dark in his tabernacle ] The glory of his family shall be obscured; he and his shall...

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• Job 18:6 - 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 18:6 - 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 18:6 - 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 18:6 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  In his tabernacle. i.e. in his family. Instead of his former splendour, both he and his shall fall into extremity of misery. His candle shall be put out with him, i.e. his glory shall die with...

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• Job 18:6 - 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 18:6 - Sermon Bible Commentary

  Job 18:6 There is a fourfold light in our nature, placed there by our Creator, the Father of our spirits. There is the light of the understanding, the light of the judgment, the light of the consc...

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• Job 18:6 - 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 18:6 - 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 18:6 - 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 18:6 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  Bildad Reckons Job with the Hardened Sinners

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• Job 18:6 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Job 21:17 ; Psalms 18:28 ; Revelation 18:23

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