Job 18:11 ASV

James Gray's Concise Bible Commentary - Job 18:1-21

SECOND SERIES OF THE DEBATE 1. With Eliphaz (chaps. 15-17) a. Speech of Eliphaz (chap. 15) b. Reply of Job (chaps. 16-17) 2. With Bildad (chaps. 18-19) a. Speech of Bildad (chap. 18) b. Reply of Job (chap. 19) 3. With Zophar (chaps. 20-21) a. Speech of Zophar (chap. 20) b. Reply of Job (chap. 21) The second series of the debate is in the same order as the first, and with the same question in view. ELIPHAZ AND JOB Eliphaz opens in chapter 15. Job is accused of vehemence and vanity; of... read more

Joseph Parker

The People's Bible by Joseph Parker - Job 18:1-21

The Second Speech of Bildad Job 18:0 We now begin to see in what a little world the three comforters lived. There are men who can only go on for a time; then they resign their ministry, and go elsewhere to repeat the few tunes they know. It was so with Job's three friends. They began eloquently; they seemed as if they were about to fly straight away into higher levels than had ever yet been attained in eloquence or in music. But we now see them returning: we now notice, what had escaped us... read more

Robert Hawker

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Job 18:6-21

(6) The light shall be dark in his tabernacle, and his candle shall be put out with him. (7) The steps of his strength shall be straitened, and his own counsel shall cast him down. (8) For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he walketh upon a snare. (9) The gin shall take him by the heel, and the robber shall prevail against him. (10) The snare is laid for him in the ground, and a trap for him in the way. (11) ¶ Terrors shall make him afraid on every side, and shall drive him to his... read more

George Haydock

George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary - Job 18:11

Fears. Hunters used to place loose feathers round the wood, except where the gin was laid, in order to frighten the prey into it. Punice'e6que agitant formidine penn'e6. (Georg. iii.) (Jeremias xlviii. 44.) "Like timid stags, while you avoid the moving feathers, you are entrapped in the strongest nets." (St. Jerome, contra Lucif.) --- Every thing tends to fill the poor beast with alarm. So the devil, conscience, and enemies on all sides, best the wicked. (Calmet) read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on the Bible - Job 18:11-21

11-21 Bildad describes the destruction wicked people are kept for, in the other world, and which in some degree, often seizes them in this world. The way of sin is the way of fear, and leads to everlasting confusion, of which the present terrors of an impure conscience are earnests, as in Cain and Judas. Miserable indeed is a wicked man's death, how secure soever his life was. See him dying; all that he trusts to for his support shall be taken from him. How happy are the saints, and how... read more

Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann - Job 18:5-21

Bildad Reckons Job with the Hardened Sinners v. 5. Yea, that is, in spite of all Job's ranting, the light of the wicked shall be put out, his prosperity utterly destroyed, and the spark of his fire shall not shine, the flames of his snug and safe hearth-fire would be extinguished. v. 6. The light shall be dark in his tabernacle, and his candle, the lamp suspended from the crosspiece above his head, shall be put out with him, this being a picture of utter desolation to the Oriental mind. ... read more

Johann Peter Lange

Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures: Critical, Doctrinal and Homiletical - Job 18:1-21

II. Bildad and Job: Ch. 18–19A.—Bildad: Job’s passionate outbreaks are useless, for the Divine ordinance, instituted from of old, is still in force, securing that the hardened sinner’s doom shall suddenly and surely overtake himJob 18:01. Sharp rebuke of Job, the foolish and blustering boaster:Job 18:1-41 Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said:2 How long will it be ere ye make an end of words?Mark, and afterwards we will speak.3 Wherefore are we counted as beasts,and... read more

Frederick Brotherton Meyer

F.B. Meyer's 'Through the Bible' Commentary - Job 18:1-21

“Cast into a Net” Job 18:1-21 Bildad’s second speech reveals how utterly he failed to understand Job’s appeal for a divine witness and surety. Such words were snares to him, Job 18:2 , r.v. The deep things that pass in a heart which is enduring sorrow are incomprehensible to shallow and narrow souls. His description of the calamities which befall the wicked is terrible: their extinguished light, Job 18:5-6 ; their awful distress, Job 18:7-11 ; their destruction, Job 18:12-17 ; the horror... read more

G. Campbell Morgan

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible - Job 18:1-21

Bildad now returned to the charge, and as was the case with Eliphaz it is perfectly evident from his opening rebuke that he was speaking under a sense of annoyance. He was wounded at the wrongs done to himself and his friends in that Job had treated them as "beasts," as "unclean." He was angry, moreover, because he considered that Job's attitude threatened the moral order with violence, and he reminded Job that stable things could not be changed for his sake. He then plunged at once into an... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Job 18:1-21

Job 18. Second Speech of Bildad.—“ Bildad speaks this time at unusual length, but his speech has no significance, since it simply describes the fate of the godless. Into the description of this, however, there are interwoven direct allusions to Job’ s case, so that to this degree it serves to increase Job’ s perplexity and bring on the crisis” (Duhm). Job 18:2-Numbers : contains the usual personal polemic; in Job 18:2 we must read sing. for plur.; Job 18:4 asks Job if the earth is to be... read more