Job 8:13

So are, &c. The application of the first simile.

the paths. The Septuagint reads "the latter end".

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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

So are the paths of all that forget God - This is clearly a part of the quotation from the sayings of the ancients. The word “paths” here means w...
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...
Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

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Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

So are the paths of all that forget God; and the hypocrite's hope shall perish: So are the paths - The papyrus and the rush flourish while they hav...
Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

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Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Whose hope shall be cut off, &c.— The thing which he longed for shall be a torment to him; and his confidence shall be as the spider's web. H...
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So are the paths of all that forget God; and the hypocrite's hope shall perish: Paths - so ways ( Proverbs 1:19 ). All that forget God -...
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

Hope ] of prosperity.
Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

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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

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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

So [are] the paths of all that forget God ,.... Who forget that there is a God; he is not in all, and scarce in any of their thoughts, and they live...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

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Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

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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

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Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

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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

So are the paths of all that forget God. Withering paths I. Consider the sin of forgetting God. 1. It is a very common sin. Thousands never...
The Complete Pulpit Commentary

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The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

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The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Paths — Of wicked men. By their paths he doth not understand their manner of living, but the events which befall them, God's manner of dealing with...

¹³ So are the paths of all that forget God; and the hypocrite's hope shall perish:

Related Commentaries of Job 8:13

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

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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