Job 18:7 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ The steps of his strength shall be straitened, and his own counsel shall cast him down. ”

• Job 18:7 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  The steps of his strength - Strong steps. “Steps of strength” is a Hebraism, to denote firm or vigorous steps. Shall be straitened - Shall be compressed, embarrassed, hindered. Instead of wal...

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• Job 18:7 - 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 18:7 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  steps of his strength . his firm step. Genitive of character. App-17.

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• Job 18:7 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  The steps of his strength shall be straitened, and his own counsel shall cast him down. The steps of his strength - Even in his greatest prosperity he shall be in straits and difficulties. His own c...

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• Job 18:7 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  The steps of his strength shall be straitened, and his own counsel shall cast him down. Steps of ... strength - Hebrew for his strong steps. A firm step marks health. To be straitened in step...

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• Job 18:7 - 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 18:7 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  The steps of his strength. — i.e. , his giant strides. He shall be the victim of his own devices, and when they seem to hold out the hope of prosperity shall lead him to destruction. (Comp. Ps. 14...

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• Job 18:7 - 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 18:7 - 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 18:7 - 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 18:7 - 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 18:7 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  The steps of his strength shall be straitened ,.... As a man in health can take large and strong steps, and travel in the greatness of his strength; so in prosperity he can and does take large steps...

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• Job 18:7 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  The steps of his strength shall be straitened, and his own counsel shall cast him down. Ver. 7. The steps of his strength shall be straitened ] That is, saith Vatablus, he shall not do what he wou...

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• Job 18:7 - 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 18:7 - 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 18:7 - 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 18:7 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  The steps of his strength, i.e. his strong steps, by a vulgar Hebraism. By steps he means his counsels, as the next branch explains it, his attempts and actions; and by steps of strength , such...

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• Job 18:7 - 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 18:7 - 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 18:7 - 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 18:7 - 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 18:7 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  Bildad Reckons Job with the Hardened Sinners

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• Job 18:7 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 Corinthians 3:19 ; 2 Samuel 15:31 ; 2 Samuel 17:14 ; Hosea 10:6 ; Job 20:22 ; Job 36:16 ; Job 5:12 ; Job 5:13 ; Proverbs 1:30-32 ; Proverbs 4:12 ; Psalms 18:36 ; Psalms 33:10

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• Job 18:7 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  Steps — His strong steps, by a vulgar Hebraism: his attempts and actions; such of them as seem to be contrived with greatest strength of understanding, and carried on with greatest resolution. Stra...

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