Job 8:8

Search — Seriously and industriously search the ancient records.

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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

For inquire thee of the former age - That is, attend to the results of observation. Ask the generations which have passed, and who in their poems...
Arno Geneva Study Bible

For (e) enquire, I pray thee, of the former age, and prepare thyself to the search of their fathers: (e) He wills Job to examine all antiquity and h...
Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

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...
Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

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...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

For inquire, I pray thee, of the former age, and prepare thyself to the search of their fathers: Inquire - of the former age - לדור רישון ledor risho...
Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

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...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

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...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

To the search of their fathers] RV 'to that which their fathers have searched out.'
Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

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...
Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

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...
G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

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...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

(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...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

For inquire, I pray thee, of the former age ,.... With respect to the truth of what he had said, or should say; he does not desire Job to take his w...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

For enquire, I pray thee, of the former age, and prepare thyself to the search of their fathers: Ver. 8. For enquire, I pray thee ] Bildad speaks...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

For inquire, &c., of the former age That is, of our predecessors, who had the advantage of longer life and more experience, besides more freque...
L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

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...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

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...
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Of the former age, i.e. of our predecessors, who had the advantage of longer life and more experience, besides more frequent revelations from God,...
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

BILDAD’S FIRST SPEECH Bildad less courteous and considerate of Job’s feelings than even Eliphaz. Commences with an unfeeling reflection on his s...
Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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....
The Complete Pulpit Commentary

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...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

For enquire, I pray thee, of the former age, generations of men which have gone before, and prepare thyself to the search of their fathers, searchi...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

An Accusation of Wickedness against Job. Bildad was convinced that Job was, in some way, guilty of some special great transgression against the Lor...
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Corinthians 10:11 ; Deuteronomy 32:7 ; Deuteronomy 4:32 ; Isaiah 38:19 ; Job 12:12 ; Job 15:10 ; Job 15:18 ; Job 32:6 ; Job 32:7 ; Psalms...

⁸ For enquire, I pray thee, of the former age, and prepare thyself to the search of their fathers:

Related Commentaries of Job 8:8

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arno Geneva Study Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Job 8:8