Job 18:14; Job 27:18; Luke 6:47-49; Matthew 7:24-27; Proverbs 10:28; Psalms 112:10; Psalms 52:5-7
He shall lean upon his house - This is an allusion to the web or house of the spider. The hope of the hypocrite is called the house which he has...
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...
He shall lean upon his house, but it shall not stand: he shall hold it fast, but it shall not endure. He shall lean upon his house - This is all allu...
He shall lean upon his house— He may prop up his house, but it shall not stand: he may make himself strong in it, but it shall not endure. Heath,...
He shall lean upon his house, but it shall not stand: he shall hold it fast, but it shall not endure. He shall hold it fast - implying his ea...
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...
Hold it fast] RV 'hold fast thereby.' 16-18. The sinner is compared to a fastgrowing weed which flourishes under the heat of the sun, and whose...
It shall not endure. — The description of the wicked man ends here.
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...
He shall lean upon his house ,.... Either the spider or the hypocrite, or the hypocrite as the spider; that is, that which is the ground of his conf...
He shall lean upon his house, but it shall not stand: he shall hold it fast, but it shall not endure. Ver. 15. He shall lean upon his house ] The...
He shall lean upon his house He shall trust to the multitude and strength of his children and servants, and to his wealth, all which come under the...
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...
He, either the spider, or rather, the wicked man signified by it, shall lean upon his house, i.e. he shall trust to the multitude and strength of...
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....
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...
He shall lean upon his house, thinking that his possessions, the object of his trust, are secure, but it shall not stand; he shall hold it fast, as...
House — He shall trust to the multitude of his children and servants, and to his wealth, all which come under the name of a man's house in scriptur...
15 He shall lean upon his house, but it shall not stand: he shall hold it fast, but it shall not endure.