Job 8:18 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ If he destroy him from his place, then it shall deny him, saying, I have not seen thee. ”

• Job 8:18 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  If he destroy him from his place - The particle here which is rendered “if ( אם 'ı̂m ) is often used to denote emphasis, and means here “certainly” - “he shall be certainly destroyed.” The word...

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• Job 8:18 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  If he destroy him from his place, then [it] shall (k) deny him, [saying], I have not seen thee. (k) That is, so that there remains nothing there to prove whether the tree had grown there or not.

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• Job 8:18 - 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 8:18 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  him... it. See translation, below: "him" and "it" refer to the tree.

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• Job 8:18 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  If he destroy him from his place, then it shall deny him, saying , I have not seen thee. Job 8:19 The heavens shall disclose his iniquity, And the earth shall rise up against him. Brimstone sh...

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• Job 8:18 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  If he destroy him from his place, then it shall deny him, saying, I have not seen thee. If he destroy him from his place, then it shall deny him. If (as may happen at any moment when he seems...

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• Job 8:18 - 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 8:18 - 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 8:18 - 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 8:18 - 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 8:18 - 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 8:18 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  If he destroy him from his place ,.... If the sun when he is risen strikes the tree with such vehement heat that it withers and utterly perishes from the place where it grew; or roots it up, so the...

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• Job 8:18 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  If he destroy him from his place, then [it] shall deny him, [saying], I have not seen thee. Ver. 18. If he destroy him from his place ] If he stub up this green tree, no better surely than the cyp...

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• Job 8:18 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  If he , &c. Namely, God, who is the saviour of good men and the destroyer of the wicked; destroy him from his place When God blasts him and plucks him up; then it shall deny him That is, the...

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• Job 8:18 - 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 8:18 - 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 8:18 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  If he; either God, who is the Saviour of good men, and the Destroyer of the wicked; or the owner; or any other man; for this is an indefinite speech, and may be taken passively and impersonally; wh...

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• Job 8:18 - 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 8:18 - 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 8:18 - 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 8:18 - 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 8:18 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Job 20:9 ; Job 7:10 ; Psalms 37:10 ; Psalms 37:36 ; Psalms 73:18 ; Psalms 73:19 ; Psalms 92:7

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• Job 8:18 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  He — God, who is the saviour of good men, and the destroyer of the wicked. It — The place; to which denying him, and seeing him, are here ascribed figuratively. Not seen — He shall be so utterly ex...

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