“ Whose hope shall be cut off, and whose trust shall be a spider's web.c ”
Whose hope shall be cut off - Schultens supposes that the quotation from the ancients closes with Job 8:13 , and that these are the comments of Bildad on the passage to which he had referred. Ro...
Whose hope shall be cut off, and whose trust [shall be] a (h) spider's web. (h) Which is today and tomorrow swept away.
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...
hope . confidence.
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,...
Whose hope shall be cut off, and whose trust shall be a spider's web. Whose hope shall be cut off - Such persons, subdued by the strong habits of sin, hope on fruitlessly, till the last thread of t...
Whose hope shall be cut off, and whose trust shall be a spider's web. Cut off - so Gesenius. Or, to accord with the metaphor of the spider's house (Hebrew for "web"). 'The confidence on which...
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...
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...
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...
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...
(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...
Whose hope shall be cut off ,.... The same thing as before, expressed in different words, and repeated for the certainty of it; signifying that it should be of no manner of use, should be wholly los...
Whose hope shall be cut off, and whose trust [shall be] a spider's web. Ver. 14. Whose hope (or whose folly, that is, whose foolish hope) shall be cut off] The Latin translation hath it, his folly...
Whose hope shall be cut off That is, whose wealth and outward glory, which is the foundation and matter of his hope, shall be suddenly and violently taken away from him; or, as the Hebrew יקושׂ, j...
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,...
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...
i.e. Whose wealth and outward glory, which is the matter of his hope and trust , shall be cut off, i.e. suddenly and violently taken away from him. Whose hope shall be irksome or tedious to him ,...
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...
trust ( See Scofield) - ( Psalms 2:12 ).
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...
Whose trust shall be a spider’s web. The spider and the hypocrite In physics, in morals, in religion, reality has no respect for those who have no regard for truth and fact. Abused nature, unde...
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...
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...
Isaiah 59:5 ; Isaiah 59:6
Hope — Whose wealth and outward glory, the matter of his hope, and trust, shall be cut off suddenly and violently taken away from him. Web — Which tho' it be formed with great art and industry, is...