Exodus 2:3; Isaiah 19:5-7
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...
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...
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...
Can... ? Figure of speech Erotesis. App-6. This is the first simile. See the second, verses: Job 8:16-19 .
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
The rush] RM 'the papyrus,' a reed from which the Egyptians made paper, light boats, etc.
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 mo...
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...
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...
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...
(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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
BILDAD’S FIRST SPEECH Bildad less courteous and considerate of Job’s feelings than even Eliphaz. Commences with an unfeeling reflection on his s...
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....
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...
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...
An Accusation of Wickedness against Job. Bildad was convinced that Job was, in some way, guilty of some special great transgression against the Lor...
Can the rush, the papyrus reed, grow up without mire, outside of the rich, moist marsh soil? Can the flag grow without water?
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?