“ For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he walketh upon a snare. ”
For he is cast into a net by his own feet - He is caught in his own tricks, as if he had spread a net or dug a pitfall for another, and had fallen into it himself. The meaning is, that he would b...
For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he (f) walketh upon a snare. (f) Meaning, that the wicked are in continual danger.
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...
walketh . walketh habitually.
For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he walketh upon a snare. For he is cast into a net - His own conduct will infallibly bring him to ruin. He shall be like a wild beast taken in a net; th...
For he is cast into a net— The metaphor is taken from a beast, which the hunters have driven into the toils. He runs here and there, striving to find a way out; but the net entangles him more and m...
For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he walketh upon a snare. He walketh upon - rather, 'he lets himself go х yithalaak ( H1980 )] into the net' (Umbreit). If the English versio...
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...
He is cast into a net. — Job had compared himself to one hunted by the Almighty ( Job 10:16 ), and Bildad here describes the evil man as snared in a net, but it is one for which he has no one to th...
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...
(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...
For he is cast into a net by his own feet ,.... He goes into it of himself, incautious and imprudent; the counsels, schemes, and methods he takes to hurt others, issue in his own ruin; the pit he di...
For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he walketh upon a snare. Ver. 8. For he is cast into a net by his own feet ] Wicked men are even ambitious for destruction; judgments need not go to...
He is cast into a net by his own feet By his own choice, design, and actions. And he walketh upon a snare Or, as the words may be rendered, runneth to and fro on the toils , and therefore must n...
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...
Miserable Condition of the Wicked. B. C. 1520. 5 Yea, the light of the wicked shall be...
By his own feet; by his own choice, and design, and actions. He walketh upon a snare; and therefore must needs be entangled and destroyed.
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 Reckons Job with the Hardened Sinners
1 Timothy 3:7 ; 1 Timothy 6:9 ; 2 Timothy 2:26 ; Esther 3:9 ; Esther 6:13 ; Esther 7:10 ; Esther 7:5 ; Ezekiel 32:3 ; Job 22:10 ; Proverbs 29:6 ; Proverbs 5:22 ; Psalms 35:8 ; Psalms 9:1...
Feet — By his own designs and actions.