Job 8:13

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible - Job 8:1-22

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 comparison it lacks in courtesy, but gains in force. He made no reference to Job's attack on his friends, but proceeded to make one statement of the righteousness of God from two standpoints. He first protested against the idea which Job's complaint had seemed to advance, that God's dealings are ever unjust with the righteous (1-7). It would be better... read more

Arthur Peake

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 8:13

Of all that forget God, i.e. of wicked men, who are branded with this same character, Psalms 9:17; Psalms 50:22; or hypocrites, as the next words explain it, who are described by their first and fundamental miscarriage, which is, that they forget, i.e. neglect, forsake, and despise, (for so this phrase is commonly understood, as Deuteronomy 6:12; Deuteronomy 8:11; Deuteronomy 32:18; Jeremiah 2:32; Jeremiah 23:27) God, i.e. his presence, and commands, and worship, and providence; and therefore... 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

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Job 8:13

Job 8:13So are the paths of all that forget God. Withering pathsI. Consider the sin of forgetting God.1. It is a very common sin. Thousands never think of Him except in times of trouble.2. It is an inexcusable sin. They are dependent upon Him. He is constantly revealing Himself to them.(1) In nature. Physical sequences have a living agent behind them; link after link of causation, but held and moved by a living hand. Law has no life. Natural agitations are the rustling of God’s garments as He... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Job 8:13

Job 8:13 So [are] the paths of all that forget God; and the hypocrite’s hope shall perish: Ver. 13. So are the paths of all that forget God ] To remember God is as necessary as to draw breath, saith Chrysostom. This the wicked man doth not, Psalms 9:17 . He will neither have God in his head, Psalms 10:4 , nor heart, Psalms 14:1 , nor words, Psalms 12:2 , nor ways, Titus 1:16 . What wonder then though his paths wither, though his life, health, wealth, power, perish, since he is in such a... read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Job 8:13

that forget God: Deuteronomy 6:12, Deuteronomy 8:11, Deuteronomy 8:14, Deuteronomy 8:19, Psalms 9:17, Psalms 10:4, Psalms 50:22, Isaiah 51:13 the hypocrite's: Job 11:20, Job 13:16, Job 15:34, Job 18:14, Job 20:5, Job 27:8-2 Samuel :, Job 36:13, Proverbs 10:28, Proverbs 12:7, Isaiah 33:14, Lamentations 3:18, Matthew 24:51, Luke 12:1, Luke 12:2 Reciprocal: Esther 5:12 - to morrow Job 19:10 - mine hope Psalms 37:35 - a green bay tree Proverbs 11:7 - General Proverbs 11:9 - An hypocrite Hosea... read more