Job 8:9 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ (For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our daysb upon earth are a shadow:) ”

• Job 8:9 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  For we are but of yesterday - That is, we are of short life. We have had but few opportunities of observation compared with those who have gone before us. There can be no doubt that Bildad here r...

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• Job 8:9 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  (For we [are but of] (f) yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth [are] a shadow:) (f) Meaning, that it is not enough to have the experience of ourselves, but to be confirmed by the...

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• Job 8:9 - 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 8:9 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

  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,...

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• Job 8:9 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  (For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth are a shadow:) For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing - It is evident that Bildad refers to those times in which...

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• Job 8:9 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  For inquire, I pray thee, &c.— Bildad had exhorted Job to apply himself to God by prayer, upon the assurance, that if he were innocent, as he pretended, or shewed any marks of a sincere repenta...

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• Job 8:9 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  For inquire, I pray thee, of the former age, and prepare thyself to the search of their fathers: The former age - the age immediately preceding Job. Their fathers - the fathers pricking t...

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• Job 8:9 - 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 8:9 - 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 8:9 - 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 8:9 - 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 8:9 - 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 8:9 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  For we [are but of] yesterday \s\ ,.... Which is not to be understood strictly of the day last past, but of a short space of time backward; and especially when compared with the antediluvian fathers...

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• Job 8:9 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  Job 8:9 (For we [are but of] yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth [are] a shadow:) Ver. 9. For we are but of yesterday ] Heb. We are yesterday, that is, yesterday's offspring...

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• Job 8:9 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  We are but of yesterday , &c. But lately born, and therefore have but little knowledge and experience. We live not so long as they did to make observations on the methods of Divine Providence. “...

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• Job 8:9 - 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 8:9 - 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 8:9 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  But of yesterday; but lately born, and therefore have but little knowledge and experience, as it follows. Our days upon earth are a shadow: this is meant either, 1. Of their lives in particular...

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• Job 8:9 - 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 8:9 - Sermon Bible Commentary

  Job 8:9 One only appears in the centuries of human existence who speaks of immortality as One who knows He is the most lowly of the sons of men. Yet He talks of providence, of immortality, as God...

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• Job 8:9 - 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 8:9 - The Biblical Illustrator

  For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth are a shadow. The intellectual poverty of life The two unquestionable truths that Bildad here expresses are the transi...

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• Job 8:9 - 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 8:9 - 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 8:9 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 Chronicles 29:15 ; Genesis 47:9 ; Job 7:6 ; Psalms 102:11 ; Psalms 144:4 ; Psalms 39:5 ; Psalms 90:4

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• Job 8:9 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  We, &c. — But lately born, and therefore have but little knowledge and experience. We live not so long as they did, to make observations on the methods of Divine Providence.

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