Job 8:4 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ If thy children have sinned against him, and he have cast them away fora their transgression; ”

• Job 8:4 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  If thy children have sinned against him - Bildad here assumes that the children of Job had been wicked, and had been cut off in their sins. This must have cut him to the quick, for there was noth...

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• Job 8:4 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  If thy children have sinned against him, and he have cast them away for their (b) transgression; (b) That is, has rewarded them according to their iniquity, meaning that Job should be warned by the...

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• Job 8:4 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  Opening of Bildad's First Speech. The two younger friends, says Duhm, make a less favourable impression than Eliphaz. Bildad's great point is the discriminating rectitude of God, who unfailingly re...

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• Job 8:4 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  children . sons. for . by the hand of; by their own act. transgression . rebellion. Hebrew. pash'a. App-44.

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• Job 8:4 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  If thy children have sinned against him, and he have cast them away for their transgression; If thy children have sinned - I know thy children have been cut off by a terrible judgment; but was it not...

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• Job 8:4 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  If thy children have sinned— Though thy children have sinned. Job 8:6 . Surely now he would awake for thee ] Surely now he would make bare his arm on thy behalf; he would make the beauty of thy...

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• Job 8:4 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  If thy children have sinned against him, and he have cast them away for their transgression; If - rather, "Since thy children have sinned against Him, and (since) He have cast them away fo...

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• Job 8:4 - 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 8:4 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  And he have cast them away. — Literally, then he sent them away. By means of their transgression; it became their destruction.

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• Job 8:4 - 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 8:4 - 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 8:4 - 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 8:4 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  (1) В¶ Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said, (2) How long wilt thou speak these things? and how long shall the words of thy mouth be like a strong wind? (3) Doth God pervert judgment? or doth t...

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• Job 8:4 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  If thy children have sinned against him ,.... As no doubt they had, and, as Bildad thought, in a very notorious manner, and therefore were righteously punished for them; this instance is produced as...

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• Job 8:4 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  If thy children have sinned against him, and he have cast them away for their transgression; Ver. 4. If thy children have sinned against him ] As what man is he that liveth and sinneth not? But Bi...

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• Job 8:4 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  If thy children have sinned against him If thou wast innocent, thy children, upon whom a great part of these calamities fell, might be guilty; and therefore God is not unrighteous in these proceedi...

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• Job 8:4 - 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 8:4 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  The Address of Bildad. B. C. 1520.       1 Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,   2 How...

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• Job 8:4 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  What though thou wast in a great measure innocent, thy children, upon whom a great part of these calamities fell, might be guilty of great sins; and therefore God is not unrighteous in these proceedi...

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• Job 8:4 - 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 8:4 - 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 8:4 - 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 8:4 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  An Admonition to Job to Repent of his Sin

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• Job 8:4 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Genesis 13:13 ; Genesis 19:13-25 ; Job 1:18 ; Job 1:19 ; Job 1:5 ; Job 18:16-19 ; Job 5:4

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• Job 8:4 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  If — If thou wast innocent, thy children, upon whom a great part of these calamities fell, might be guilty; and therefore God is not unrighteous in these proceedings.

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