Genesis 49:3; Isaiah 14:30; Job 17:16; Jonah 2:6; Revelation 6:8
It shall devour the strength of his skin - Margin, bars. The margin is a correct translation of the Hebrew. The word used ( בדי badēy , constr...
It shall devour the strength of his skin: [even] the (h) firstborn of death shall devour his strength. (h) That is, some strong and violent death wi...
Job 18. Second Speech of Bildad. Bildad speaks this time at unusual length, but his speech has no significance, since it simply describes the fate o...
strength . parts or members of his body. skin. Put by Figure of speech Synecdoche (of the Part), App-6, for the whole body. Compare Exodus 22:...
It shall devour the strength of his skin: even the firstborn of death shall devour his strength. It shall devour the strength of his skin - This ma...
It shall devour, &c.— Filthy ulcers shall consume his skin; an untimely death shall destroy his children. Heath and Houbigant. This sarcasm w...
It shall devour the strength of his skin: even the firstborn of death shall devour his strength. Umbreit has 'he' for "it" - i:e., in the rage...
Bildad's Second Speech Bildad replies with a rebuke to Job and a reassertion of the miserable lot of the wicked already asserted by Eliphaz; not s...
Strength of his skin] RV 'members of his body.' Firstborn of death ] i.e. a deadly disease. 14a. Render, 'He shall be rooted out of the tent he...
The strength of his skin. — This verse should probably be rendered, “It shall devour the members of his body, even the firstborn of death shall dev...
XV. A SCHEME OF WORLD RULE Job 18:1-21 BILDAD SPEAKS COMPOSED in the orderly parallelism of the finished mashal , this speech of Bildad sta...
“Cast into a Net” Job 18:1-21 Bildad's second speech reveals how utterly he failed to understand Job's appeal for a divine witness and surety....
Bildad now returned to the charge, and as was the case with Eliphaz it is perfectly evident from his opening rebuke that he was speaking under a sens...
(6) The light shall be dark in his tabernacle, and his candle shall be put out with him. (7) The steps of his strength shall be straitened, and his o...
It shall devour the strength of his skin ,.... Or "the bars of his skin" x, the strength and support of his body, for which his skin may be put, as...
It shall devour the strength of his skin: [even] the firstborn of death shall devour his strength. Ver. 13. It shall devour the strength of his sk...
It shall devour , &c. “Filthy ulcers shall consume his skin; an untimely death shall destroy his children. Heath and Houbigant. This sarcasm w...
BILDAD'S STRONG REPROOF (vv.1-3) Bildad did not learn from Job's words to be a little more considerate than before, but shows only more strong o...
11 Terrors shall make him afraid on every side, and shall drive him to his feet. 12 His strength shall be hungerbitten, and destruction sh...
The strength of his skin, Heb. the bars , or rather, the branches of the skin , i.e. either the veins and sinews, which branch out themselves thr...
BILDAD’S SECOND SPEECH Bildad the bitterest and most hostile of the three friends. No speech as yet so insolent and provoking. Full of fiery sca...
Job 18:6 . The light shall be dark in his tabernacle. Darkness is a most ancient figure of speech for all kinds of affliction. But to good men, “t...
Then answered Bildad the Shuhite. The danger of denouncing wickedness How wonderfully well the three comforters painted the portrait of wickedn...
EXPOSITION Job 18:1-18 Bildad's second speech is no improvement upon his first ( Job 8:1-18 .). He has evidently been exceedingly nettled b...
Bildad Reckons Job with the Hardened Sinners
It shall devour the strength of his skin, literally, "the branches of his skin," the members of his body; even the first-born of death shall devour...
First — born — A terrible kind of death. The first — born was the chief of his brethren, and therefore this title is given to things eminent in the...
13 It shall devour the strengthe of his skin: even the firstborn of death shall devour his strength.