Job 8:8

Geneva Study Bible - Job 8:8

8:8 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 he will find it true which he here says. read more

L.M. Grant

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible - Job 8:1-22

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 not begin in the conciliatory way that Eliphaz did, however, not even attempting to show any understanding of Job's feelings. Rather, he spoke as one exasperated, immediately accusing Job of allowing words to issue from his mouth that were only "a strong wind" (v.2). "Does God subvert judgment? Or does the Almighty pervert justice?" he asks (v.3). He... read more

James Gray

James Gray's Concise Bible Commentary - Job 8:1-22

FIRST SERIES OF THE DEBATE The first series of the debate may be outlined as follows: 1. With Eliphaz (chaps. 4-7) a. Speech of Eliphaz (chaps. 4-5) b. Reply of (chaps. 6-7) 2. With Bildad (chaps. 8-10) a. Speech of Bildad (chap. 8) b. Reply of Job (chaps. 9-10) 3. With Zophar (chaps. 11-14) a. Speech of Zophar (chap. 11) b. Reply of Job (chaps. 12-14) It is thought the debate may have occupied several days, by which supposition some of the difficulties of the book are removed. In the... read more

Joseph Parker

The People's Bible by Joseph Parker - Job 8:1-22

The First Speech of Bildad Job 8:0 Considering the whole case, we must never forget the exact condition in which the three comforters found Job himself. This is not a merely speculative discussion, all the men being upon equal terms, and all enjoying the luxury of intellectual vitality, and the delight of talking over subjects which have no practical bearing: one of the men is hardly alive. What was his condition? Children all dead, flocks destroyed, camels carried away, servants slain by the... read more

Robert Hawker

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Job 8:1-9

(1) ¶ 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 strong wind? (3) Doth God pervert judgment? or doth the Almighty pervert justice? (4) If thy children have sinned against him, and he have cast them away for their transgression; (5) If thou wouldest seek unto God betimes, and make thy supplication to the Almighty; (6) If thou wert pure and upright; surely now he would awake for thee, and make the... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on the Bible - Job 8:8-19

8-19 Bildad discourses well of hypocrites and evil-doers, and the fatal end of all their hopes and joys. He proves this truth of the destruction of the hopes and joys of hypocrites, by an appeal to former times. Bildad refers to the testimony of the ancients. Those teach best that utter words out of their heart, that speak from an experience of spiritual and divine things. A rush growing in fenny ground, looking very green, but withering in dry weather, represents the hypocrite's profession,... read more

Frank Binford Hole

F. B. Hole's Old and New Testament Commentary - Job 8:1-99

Job 8 - 14. As Job closed his reply to Eliphaz, he made the confession, "I have sinned," realizing that God is the Observer of mankind. We might have expected that Bildad, as he began to speak, would have made some allusion to this, but he does not appear to do so. Instead he accused him of uttering words like the blowing of a strong wind, and, to maintain the rightness of all God's judgments, he insinuated that Job's children must have been cast away as the penalty of their transgression.... read more

Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann - Job 8:8-22

An Accusation of Wickedness against Job. Bildad was convinced that Job was, in some way, guilty of some special great transgression against the Lord, that his present affliction was the punishment for some specific wrong committed by him. Therefore he continued his harangue in this strain. v. 8. 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, searching through the annals of history, finding out what... read more

Johann Peter Lange

Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures: Critical, Doctrinal and Homiletical - Job 8:1-22

II. Bildad and Job: Chaps. 8–10A.—Bildad’s rebuke: Man must not charge God with unrighteousness as Job has done, for God never does that which is unjust:Job 8:01. Censure of Job on account of his unjust accusation against God:Job 8:2-71 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 strong wind?3 Doth God pervert judgment?or doth the Almighty pervert justice?4 If thy children have sinned... read more

Frederick Brotherton Meyer

F.B. Meyer's 'Through the Bible' Commentary - Job 8:1-22

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 suffering, like Job’s, indicated special sin, however deeply concealed. He feels that God could not pervert judgment, and that the sudden destruction of Job’s children proved that they had transgressed. Job 8:11-13 are probably quoted from an old poem, embodying the sententious observation of some older generation, which compared the ungodly to the rapid... read more