Job 8:19 NLT,NIV,ESV

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 8:19

This is the joyful and happy issue of the flourishing course, state, and condition (which is frequently called a way) of this tree, or of the hypocrite, manifestly represented by it, and expressed Job 8:13. It is a sarcasm or irony, and is to be understood contrariwise of his sad and unhappy end. Out of the earth shall others grow, i.e. out of the same earth or place shall another tree grow; which could not be if there had been but a stump of it left, though under ground. So it notes the total... 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

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 8:19

Job 8:19 Behold, this [is] the joy of his way, and out of the earth shall others grow. Ver. 19. Behold, this is the joy of his way ] q.d. A goodly joy! sure the hypocrite’s joy is but the hypocrisy of joy, a little counterfeit complexion, like a slight dash of rain, a handful of brushwood, or sear thorn under the pot, Ecclesiastes 7:6 , or as weeds that grow on the top of the water, floating aloft, but touch not the bottom. Though it be an exulting joy (as the word signifieth), a leaping joy... read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Job 8:19

this is the joy: Job 20:5, Matthew 13:20, Matthew 13:21 out of the earth: 1 Samuel 2:8, Psalms 75:7, Psalms 113:7, Ezekiel 17:24, Matthew 3:9 Reciprocal: Psalms 103:16 - and the read more

John Wesley

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Job 8:19

Behold, this is the joy of his way, and out of the earth shall others grow.Behold — This is the issue of the flourishing state. This all his joy comes to.And, … — Out of the same earth or place shall another tree grow. read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Job 8:14-19

b. Such a man can build on nothing securely; (Hirtzel;) supports, apparently the firmest, fail him, Job 8:14-19. The preceding image parts asunder into similes: the one of “a spider’s house,” confessedly frail, and the other of a succulent garden plant, whose “house of stones” is more enduring yet destruction in either case is certain. The same word house, in Job 8:14-15; Job 8:17, is pivotal in the entire comparison. Job’s home had been swept away, but the prospective habitation of... read more