Job 8:12 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Whilst it is yet in his greenness, and not cut down, it withereth before any other herb. ”

• Job 8:12 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  Whilst it is yet in his greenness - That is, while it seems to be in its vigor. And is not cut down - Even when it is not cut down. If suffered to stand by itself, and if undisturbed, it will...

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• Job 8:12 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  The Wisdom of the Ancients. Bildad recalls Job to tradition as enshrined in the proverbs of the fathers ( Job 8:8 ). Authority belongs to the voice of the past ( Job 8:9 ). The respect which our ag...

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• Job 8:12 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

  DISCOURSE: 457 BILDAD WARNS JOB OF THE DANGER OF HYPOCRISY Job 8:8-14 . Inquire, I pray thee, of the former age, and prepare thyself to the search of their fathers: (for we are but of yesterday,...

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• Job 8:12 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  Whilst it is yet in his greenness, and not cut down, it withereth before any other herb. Whilst it is yet in his greenness - We do not know enough of the natural history of this plant to be abl...

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• Job 8:12 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  For inquire, I pray thee, &c.— Bildad had exhorted Job to apply himself to God by prayer, upon the assurance, that if he were innocent, as he pretended, or shewed any marks of a sincere repenta...

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• Job 8:12 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  Whilst it is yet in his greenness, and not cut down, it withereth before any other herb. Not cut down. Ere it has ripened for the scythe, it withers more suddenly than any herb, having no sel...

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• Job 8:12 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  The First Speech of Bildad Holding the same doctrine about sin and suffering as Eliphaz, Bildad supports the views of his friend by an appeal to the teaching of antiquity. He shows less sympathy a...

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• Job 8:12 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  XIX. VENTURESOME THEOLOGY Job 8:1-22 BILDAD SPEAKS THE first attempt to meet Job has been made by one who relies on his own experience and takes pleasure in recounting the things which he has...

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• Job 8:12 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  God Will not Cast Away Job 8:1-22 Bildad now takes up the argument, appealing to the experience of former generations to show that special suffering, like Job's, indicated special sin, however...

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• Job 8:12 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  In answer to Job, the next of his friends, Bildad, took up the argument. There is greater directness in his speech than in that of Eliphaz. By comparison it lacks in courtesy, but gains in force. He...

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• Job 8:12 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  (10) Shall not they teach thee, and tell thee, and utter words out of their heart? (11) Can the rush grow up without mire? can the flag grow without water? (12) Whilst it is yet in his greenness, and...

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• Job 8:12 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  Whilst it [is] yet in its greenness ,.... Before it is come to its full height, or to a proper ripeness; when as yet it has not flowered, or is about it; before the time usual for it to turn and cha...

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• Job 8:12 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  Whilst it [is] yet in his greenness, [and] not cut down, it withereth before any [other] herb. Ver. 12. Whilst it is yet in his greenness, &c. ] And so withereth not through age, as being bu...

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• Job 8:12 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Can the rush grow without mire , &c. This, and what follows, he speaks as from those ancients, to whom he had referred him, and concerning whom he says, that they would give him such instruction...

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• Job 8:12 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  BILDAD'S CRUEL RESPONSE (vv.1-22) Bildad's response to Job was much more brief than that of Eliphaz, but following along the same line. He did not begin in the conciliatory way that Eliphaz did,...

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• Job 8:12 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

        8 For enquire, I pray thee, of the former age, and prepare thyself to the search of their fathers:   9 (For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth are a sh...

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• Job 8:12 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  Yet in his greenness; whereby it promiseth long continuance. Not cut down; though no man cut it down, it withereth of itself, and will save a man the labour of cutting or plucking it up. It gives...

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• Job 8:12 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  BILDAD’S FIRST SPEECH Bildad less courteous and considerate of Job’s feelings than even Eliphaz. Commences with an unfeeling reflection on his speech. Pursues the same line of argument and addre...

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• Job 8:12 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Job 8:7 . Though thy beginning was small, yet thy latter end should be great. Many great patriarchs, like Jacob, had once but a small beginning. Job 8:11 . Can the rush grow. The LXX read, “th...

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• Job 8:12 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION Job 8:1 Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said . Bildad the Shuhite has the second place in the passage where Job's friends are first mentioned ( Job 2:11 ), and occupies th...

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• Job 8:12 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  An Accusation of Wickedness against Job. Bildad was convinced that Job was, in some way, guilty of some special great transgression against the Lord, that his present affliction was the punishment...

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• Job 8:12 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 Peter 1:24 ; James 1:10 ; James 1:11 ; Jeremiah 17:6 ; Matthew 13:20 ; Psalms 129:6 ; Psalms 129:7

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• Job 8:12 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  Greenness — Whereby it promises long continuance. Tho' no man cut it down, it withers of itself, sooner than other herbs.

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