Job 8:17

His roots are wrapped about the heap, and seeth the place of stones.

Related Commentaries of Job 8:17

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

His roots are wrapped about the heap - There has been great diversity of opinion in the interpretation of this passage. Jerome renders it, “over...
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...
Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

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....
Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

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...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

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...
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

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.
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

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...
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

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

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...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

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...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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...
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

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...
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

An Accusation of Wickedness against Job. Bildad was convinced that Job was, in some way, guilty of some special great transgression against the Lor...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

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...
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Isaiah 40:24 ; Isaiah 5:24 ; Jeremiah 12:1 ; Jeremiah 12:2 ; Job 18:16 ; Job 29:19 ; Jude 1:12 ; Mark 11:20
Wesley's Explanatory Notes

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.

Related Commentaries of Job 8:17

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

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

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole 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

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Job 8:17