Job 8:15 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ He shall lean upon his house, but it shall not stand: he shall hold it fast, but it shall not endure. ”

• Job 8:15 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  He shall lean upon his house - This is an allusion to the web or house of the spider. The hope of the hypocrite is called the house which he has built for himself; his home, his refuge, his suppo...

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• Job 8:15 - 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 8:15 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  He shall lean upon his house, but it shall not stand: he shall hold it fast, but it shall not endure. He shall lean upon his house - This is all allusion to the spider. When he suspects his web, here...

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• Job 8:15 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  He shall lean upon his house— He may prop up his house, but it shall not stand: he may make himself strong in it, but it shall not endure. Heath, after the LXX.

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• Job 8:15 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  He shall lean upon his house, but it shall not stand: he shall hold it fast, but it shall not endure. He shall hold it fast - implying his eager grasp, when the storm of trial comes. As the s...

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• Job 8:15 - 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 8:15 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  It shall not endure. — The description of the wicked man ends here.

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• Job 8:15 - 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 8:15 - 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 8:15 - 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 8:15 - 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 8:15 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  He shall lean upon his house ,.... Either the spider or the hypocrite, or the hypocrite as the spider; that is, that which is the ground of his confidence, which is as the spider's house, on that he...

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• Job 8:15 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  He shall lean upon his house, but it shall not stand: he shall hold it fast, but it shall not endure. Ver. 15. He shall lean upon his house ] The spider shall, so Vatablus taketh it; but better, t...

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• Job 8:15 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  He shall lean upon his house He shall trust to the multitude and strength of his children and servants, and to his wealth, all which come under the name of a man's house in Scripture. But it sha...

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• Job 8:15 - 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 8:15 - 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 8:15 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  He, either the spider, or rather, the wicked man signified by it, shall lean upon his house, i.e. he shall trust to the multitude and strength of his children and servants. and to his wealth, all...

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• Job 8:15 - 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 8:15 - 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 8:15 - 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 8:15 - 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 8:15 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Job 18:14 ; Job 27:18 ; Luke 6:47-49 ; Matthew 7:24-27 ; Proverbs 10:28 ; Psalms 112:10 ; Psalms 52:5-7

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• Job 8:15 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  House — He shall trust to the multitude of his children and servants, and to his wealth, all which come under the name of a man's house in scripture. Hold it — To uphold himself by it. But his web,...

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