Job 8:11

The flag is the plant of Genesis 41:2, which the cattle feed upon. This figure is enforced by a second, that, namely, of the spider’s web, the most fragile and transient of tenements.

Related Commentaries of Job 8:11

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Can the rush - This passage has all the appearance of being a fragment of a poem handed down from ancient times. It is adduced by Bildad as an ex...
Arno Geneva Study Bible

Can the rush (g) grow up without mire? can the flag grow without water? (g) As a rush cannot grow without moisture, so the hypocrite because he does...
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...
Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Can... ? Figure of speech Erotesis. App-6. This is the first simile. See the second, verses: Job 8:16-19 .
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 sear...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Can the rush grow up without mire? can the flag grow without water? Can the rush grow - The word גמא gome, which we translate rush, is, without doubt...
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 p...
Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Can the rush grow up without mire? &c.— A bulrush without water is proverbial. It is adapted to the hypocrite, who, while he suddenly grows u...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Can the rush grow up without mire? can the flag grow without water? Rush - rather, paper reed: the papyrus of Egypt, which was used to make g...
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 t...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

The rush] RM 'the papyrus,' a reed from which the Egyptians made paper, light boats, etc.
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 ta...
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 suff...
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 compar...
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...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Can the rush grow up without mire ?.... No, at least not long, or so as to lift up his head on high, as the word signifies a; the rush or bulrush, w...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

Can the rush grow up without mire? can the flag grow without water? Ver. 11. Can the rush grow up without mire? ] Iam subiungit quod illi explora...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Can the rush grow without mire , &c. This, and what follows, he speaks as from those ancients, to whom he had referred him, and concerning whom...
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 n...
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 kn...
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Without mire, i.e. if it be not in moist and miry ground. This and what follows he mentions as it were in the person of those ancients to whom he h...
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 s...
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....
The Biblical Illustrator

Can the rush grow up without mire? --The rush to which he refers did not grow in the dry and parched land of Uz, which was the place where Bildad...
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...
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 Lor...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Can the rush, the papyrus reed, grow up without mire, outside of the rich, moist marsh soil? Can the flag grow without water?
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Exodus 2:3 ; Isaiah 19:5-7
Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Can, &c. — The hypocrite cannot build his hope, without some false, rotten ground or other, any more than the rush can grow without mire, or th...

¹¹ Can the rush grow up without mire? can the flag grow without water?

Related Commentaries of Job 8:11

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arno Geneva Study Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

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