Isaiah 40:24; Isaiah 5:24; Jeremiah 12:1; Jeremiah 12:2; Job 18:16; Job 29:19; Jude 1:12; Mark 11:20
His roots are wrapped about the heap - There has been great diversity of opinion in the interpretation of this passage. Jerome renders it, “over...
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...
the heap . a spring, or fountain, as in Song of Solomon 4:12 . Hebrew. gal. Plural in Joshua 15:19 , &c. seeth . overlooks: i.e. overtops....
His roots are wrapped about the heap, and seeth the place of stones.
His roots are wrapped about the heap— Heath renders it, He windeth his roots about a spring; he twisteth himself about a heap of stones. Houbigan...
His roots are wrapped about the heap, and seeth the place of stones. Seeth the place of stones - Hebrew 'the house of stones' - i:e., clamber...
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...
Heap ] The Heb. also means 'fountain,' and possibly the sense may be that the plant lives in the stone erection over the fountain in the garden.
His roots are wrapped about. — This is the cause of his continual luxuriance, that his roots receive moisture from below, where they are wrapped ab...
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...
His roots are wrapped about the heap ,.... The heap of stones where the tree stands; it strikes its roots among them, and implicates and twists them...
His roots are wrapped about the heap, [and] seeth the place of stones. Ver. 17. His roots are wrapped about the heap, &c. ] i.e. They are de...
His roots are wrapped about the heap Heath renders this, He windeth his roots about a spring; he twisteth himself about a heap of stones: and he...
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...
About the heap, to wit, of stones, which word may be here understood out of the latter branch of the verse, as is very usual in Scripture use. This...
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...
His roots are wrapped about the heap, taking hold in piles of stones, and seeth the place of stones, having entwined himself between the stones by...
Heap — Of stones. This circumstance is added, to signify its firmness and strength, that it was not in loose and sandy ground, which a violent wind...
17 His roots are wrapped about the heap, and seeth the place of stones.