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Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Job 8:8-19

Job 8:8-Psalms : . 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 of the past ( Job 8:9). “ The respect which our age has for books, each of which is collected from a hundred older ones, a non-literary civilisation has for tradition and usage. Bildad is conscious of his limitation, but ascribes the same also to all others, whom, as mediocrity is wont to do, he holds without hesitation as his... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Job 8:12

Yet in his greenness; whereby it promiseth long continuance. Not cut down; though no man cut it down, it withereth of itself, and will save a man the labour of cutting or plucking it up. It gives not a man so much warning that he can cut it down in time, as other green herbs do, but suddenly withereth. Before any other herb, i.e. sooner than other herbs, or in their presence, or they surviving; in which sense it seems to be said that Ishmael died in the presence of his brethren, Genesis 25:18;... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Job 8:1-22

BILDAD’S FIRST SPEECHBildad less courteous and considerate of Job’s feelings than even Eliphaz. Commences with an unfeeling reflection on his speech. Pursues the same line of argument and address as his predecessor—(1) God is righteous—punishing the bad, and rewarding those who seek and serve Him; (2) Job exhorted to prove the latter by sincere repentance and prayer; (3) The prosperity of the wicked short-lived, and sure to end in ruin: the end of the righteous certain joy and triumph.I.... read more

Charles Simeon

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae - Job 8:8-14

DISCOURSE: 457BILDAD WARNS JOB OF THE DANGER OF HYPOCRISYJob 8:8-14. Inquire, I pray thee, of the former age, and prepare thyself to the search of their fathers: (for we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth are a shadow:) shall not they teach thee, and tell thee, and utter words out of their heart? Can the rush grow up without mire? can the flay grow without water? Whilst it is yet in his greenness, and not cut down, it withereth before any other herb. So are the... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Job 8:1-22

Chapter 8So Bildad, the next friend, speaks up and he said,How long will you speak these things? how long will your words of your mouth be like a [big, bag of] wind? Does God pervert judgment? or does the Almighty pervert justice? If your children have sinned against him, and he has cast them away for their transgression ( Job 8:2-4 );And okay now, he's getting on my kids. They've sinned and God wiped them out. And now you going to blame God?If you would seek unto God before, and make your... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Job 8:1-22

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. Job 8:11 . Can the rush grow. The LXX read, “the papyrus,” the leaf of which was used as paper among the Egyptians; and the tallipot leaf is used in a similar manner in India. Job 8:15 . He shall lean upon his house. The LXX, “Though he moat his house; i.e. with a ditch or drain, and parapet; yet it shall not stand.” This reading relieves... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Job 8:12

Job 8:12 Whilst it [is] yet in his greenness, [and] not cut down, it withereth before any [other] herb. Ver. 12. Whilst it is yet in his greenness, &c. ] And so withereth not through age, as being but in its shooting up. And not cut down ] Or, cropped off, either by the hands of men or teeth of beasts. It withereth ] For want of water, without store whereof it cannot live. The hypocrite is a sensualist, Jdg 18:19 Job 21:11 Hosea 4:11 ; he liveth in such miry places as cannot be healed... read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Job 8:12

Psalms 129:6, Psalms 129:7, Jeremiah 17:6, Matthew 13:20, James 1:10, James 1:11, 1 Peter 1:24 Reciprocal: Esther 5:12 - to morrow read more

John Wesley

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Job 8:12

Whilst it is yet in his greenness, and not cut down, it withereth before any other herb.Greenness — Whereby it promises long continuance. Tho' no man cut it down, it withers of itself, sooner than other herbs. read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Job 8:12

12. It withereth Our translators have disregarded the (in this case) important ו : while yet it is in its greenness, it is uncut, (and) THEN, sooner than all (other) grass, it drieth up. The passage strikingly illustrates the estate of the hypocrite the man who forgets God. The tall and graceful plant need not be cut down that it may suddenly die. Take from it the moisture of the marsh, and it withers. Thus with one who assumes to be what he is not. False and characterless he stands.... read more