Job 21:7-15; Job 5:3; Psalms 37:35; Psalms 37:36; Psalms 73:3-12
He is green before the sun - Vulgate, “antequam veniat sol - before the sun comes.” So the Chaldee, “before the rising of the sun.” So Eichhorn...
He [is] (i) green before the sun, and his branch shooteth forth in his garden. (i) He compares the just to a tree, which although it is moved from o...
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. Supply Ellipsis (App-6), "He [like. tree]". This is the second simile, and the application is in Job 8:20 . The first simile is in Job 8:11...
He is green before the sun, and his branch shooteth forth in his garden. He is green before the sun - This is another metaphor. The wicked is repre...
He is green before the sun, and his branch shooteth forth in his garden. Before the sun, х lipneey ( H6440 ) shemesh ( H8121 )] - i:...
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...
He is green. — Here begins, as we understand it, another and an opposite picture, which fact is marked in the Hebrew by an emphatic pronoun. “Green...
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 [is] green before the sun ,.... Which some understand of the rush or flag, of which a further account is given, as setting forth more fully the c...
He [is] green before the sun, and his branch shooteth forth in his garden. Ver. 16. He is green before the sun ] Succosus est, saith Tremellius,...
He , &c. The hypocrite, or the secure and prosperous sinner, may think himself degraded when he is compared to a rush or flag. Compare him, then...
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, 1. The perfect man, here understood out of Job 8:20 , where it is expressed; or rather, 2. The hypocrite, of whom he hath hither...
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 is green before the sun, like a succulent creeper in the sunshine, and his branch shooteth forth in his garden, the whole garden being overrun w...
He — The secure and prosperous sinner may think himself wronged, when he is compared to a rush or flag. Compare him then to a flourishing and well...
16 He is green before the sun, and his branch shooteth forth in his garden.