“ He is green before the sun, and his branch shooteth forth in his garden. ”
He is green before the sun - Vulgate, “antequam veniat sol - before the sun comes.” So the Chaldee, “before the rising of the sun.” So Eichhorn renders it. According to this, which is probably...
He [is] (i) green before the sun, and his branch shooteth forth in his garden. (i) He compares the just to a tree, which although it is moved from one place to another, yet flourishes: so the afflic...
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...
He. Supply Ellipsis (App-6), "He [like. tree]". This is the second simile, and the application is in Job 8:20 . The first simile is in Job 8:11 , with its application in verses: Job 8:13-15 ....
He is green before the sun, and his branch shooteth forth in his garden. He is green before the sun - This is another metaphor. The wicked is represented as a luxuriant plant, in a good soil, with...
He is green before the sun, and his branch shooteth forth in his garden. Before the sun, х lipneey ( H6440 ) shemesh ( H8121 )] - i:e., He (the godless) is green only before the sun...
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...
He is green. — Here begins, as we understand it, another and an opposite picture, which fact is marked in the Hebrew by an emphatic pronoun. “Green is he (see Job 8:6 ) before the sun, &c.,...
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...
He [is] green before the sun ,.... Which some understand of the rush or flag, of which a further account is given, as setting forth more fully the case of wicked men and hypocrites; but to either of...
He [is] green before the sun, and his branch shooteth forth in his garden. Ver. 16. He is green before the sun ] Succosus est, saith Tremellius, he is sappy and juicy, having a confluence of all...
He , &c. The hypocrite, or the secure and prosperous sinner, may think himself degraded when he is compared to a rush or flag. Compare him, then, to a flourishing and well-rooted tree, which spr...
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...
He; either, 1. The perfect man, here understood out of Job 8:20 , where it is expressed; or rather, 2. The hypocrite, of whom he hath hitherto treated, to whom this and the following verses...
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...
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...
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...
Job 21:7-15 ; Job 5:3 ; Psalms 37:35 ; Psalms 37:36 ; Psalms 73:3-12
He — The secure and prosperous sinner may think himself wronged, when he is compared to a rush or flag. Compare him then to a flourishing and well — rooted tree. Yet even then shall he be suddenly...