1 Chronicles 29:15; Genesis 47:9; Job 7:6; Psalms 102:11; Psalms 144:4; Psalms 39:5; Psalms 90:4
For we are but of yesterday - That is, we are of short life. We have had but few opportunities of observation compared with those who have gone b...
(For we [are but of] (f) yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth [are] a shadow:) (f) Meaning, that it is not enough to have the ex...
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...
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...
(For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth are a shadow:) For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing - It is...
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...
For inquire, I pray thee, of the former age, and prepare thyself to the search of their fathers: The former age - the age immediately precedi...
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...
We ] the men of his own day. 11-15. As surely as a water-plant perishes without water so surely will the sinner perish when God turns from him.
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...
(1) В¶ Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said, (2) How long wilt thou speak these things? and how long shall the words of thy mouth be like a str...
For we [are but of] yesterday \s\ ,.... Which is not to be understood strictly of the day last past, but of a short space of time backward; and espe...
Job 8:9 (For we [are but of] yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth [are] a shadow:) Ver. 9. For we are but of yesterday ] Heb...
We are but of yesterday , &c. But lately born, and therefore have but little knowledge and experience. We live not so long as they did to make o...
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...
But of yesterday; but lately born, and therefore have but little knowledge and experience, as it follows. Our days upon earth are a shadow: 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 8:9 One only appears in the centuries of human existence who speaks of immortality as One who knows He is the most lowly of the sons of men. Y...
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....
For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth are a shadow. The intellectual poverty of life The two unquestionabl...
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...
(for we are but of yesterday and know nothing, our own experience alone counts for nothing, because our days upon earth are a shadow, the term of a...
We, &c. — But lately born, and therefore have but little knowledge and experience. We live not so long as they did, to make observations on the...
9 (For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our daysb upon earth are a shadow:)