Amos 2:9; Hosea 9:16; Isaiah 5:24; Job 15:30; Job 29:19; Job 5:3; Job 5:4; Malachi 4:1
His roots shall be dried up - Another image of complete desolation - where he is compared to a tree that is dead - a figure whose meaning is obvi...
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...
His roots shall be dried up beneath, and above shall his branch be cut off. Job 18:16 His roots shall be dried up - his branch be cut off - He sha...
His roots shall be dried up beneath, and above shall his branch be cut off. Roots - himself. Branch - his children ( Job 8:12 ; Job 15:30...
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...
His roots shall be dried up. — With tacit allusion to what he had said in Job 8:12 , and also to the destruction of Job’s own offspring, which had...
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...
His roots shall be dried up beneath ,.... Wicked men are sometimes compared to trees; to trees of the wood, barren, and unfruitful; to trees without...
His roots shall be dried up beneath, and above shall his branch be cut off. Ver. 16. His roots shall be dried up beneath, &c. ] The meaning is...
His roots shall be dried up , &c. That is, he shall be destroyed, both root and branch; both himself and his posterity. His remembrance shall p...
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...
i.e. He shall be destroyed, both root and branch, i.e. both himself and his posterity. Compare Zechariah 4:1 .
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
His roots shall be dried up beneath, as in a tree which is dead, and above shall his branch be cut off, withering and decaying with the trunk, both...
16 His roots shall be dried up beneath, and above shall his branch be cut off.