Job 8:13 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ So are the paths of all that forget God; and the hypocrite's hope shall perish: ”

• Job 8:13 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  So are the paths of all that forget God - This is clearly a part of the quotation from the sayings of the ancients. The word “paths” here means ways, acts, doings. They who forget God are like th...

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• Job 8:13 - 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 8:13 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  So are, &c. The application of the first simile. the paths. The Septuagint reads "the latter end".

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• Job 8:13 - 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 8:13 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  So are the paths of all that forget God; and the hypocrite's hope shall perish: So are the paths - The papyrus and the rush flourish while they have a plentiful supply of ooze and water; but take t...

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• Job 8:13 - 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 8:13 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  So are the paths of all that forget God; and the hypocrite's hope shall perish: Paths - so ways ( Proverbs 1:19 ). All that forget God - the distinguishing trait of the godless. "The wick...

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• Job 8:13 - 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 8:13 - 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 8:13 - 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 8:13 - 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 8:13 - 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 8:13 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  So [are] the paths of all that forget God ,.... Who forget that there is a God; he is not in all, and scarce in any of their thoughts, and they live without him in the world; who forget the works of...

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• Job 8:13 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  So [are] the paths of all that forget God; and the hypocrite's hope shall perish: Ver. 13. So are the paths of all that forget God ] To remember God is as necessary as to draw breath, saith Chryso...

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• Job 8:13 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  So are the paths of all that forget God Of wicked men, who are often described by this character; see Psalms 9:17 ; Psalms 50:22 ; or, of hypocrites, as the next words explain it, whose first and...

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• Job 8:13 - 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 8:13 - 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 8:13 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  Of all that forget God, i.e. of wicked men, who are branded with this same character, Psalms 9:17 , Psalms 50:22 ; or hypocrites, as the next words explain it, who are described by their first...

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• Job 8:13 - 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 8:13 - 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 8:13 - The Biblical Illustrator

  So are the paths of all that forget God. Withering paths I. Consider the sin of forgetting God. 1. It is a very common sin. Thousands never think of Him except in times of trouble. 2. It...

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• Job 8:13 - 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 8:13 - 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 8:13 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Deuteronomy 6:12 ; Deuteronomy 8:11 ; Deuteronomy 8:14 ; Deuteronomy 8:19 ; Isaiah 33:14 ; Isaiah 51:13 ; Job 11:20 ; Job 13:16 ; Job 15:34 ; Job 18:14 ; Job 20:5 ; Job 27:8-10 ; Job 36:...

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• Job 8:13 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  Paths — Of wicked men. By their paths he doth not understand their manner of living, but the events which befall them, God's manner of dealing with them.

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