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Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Job 18:5-10

The rest of Bildad's discourse is entirely taken up in an elegant description of the miserable condition of a wicked man, in which there is a great deal of certain truth, and which will be of excellent use if duly considered?that a sinful condition is a sad condition, and that iniquity will be men's ruin if they do not repent of it. But it is not true that all wicked people are visibly and openly made thus miserable in this world; nor is it true that all who are brought into great distress and... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 18:6

The light shall the dark in his tabernacle ,.... Not the light of the eye, in the tabernacle of his body, rather the light of nature and reason in him; and when that "light that is in a man becomes darkness", as our Lord says, "how great is that darkness!" Matthew 6:23 ; but best of all it designs the light of prosperity in his house and family, which should be quite obscured: and his candle shall be put out with him ; which sometimes signifies the spirit of man, his rational... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Job 18:6

The light shall be dark in his tabernacle - His property shall be destroyed, his house pillaged, and himself and his family come to an untimely end. His candle shall be put out - He shall have no posterity. read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Job 18:1-21

Bildad's second speech is no improvement upon his first ( Job 8:1-22 .). He has evidently been exceedingly nettled by Job's contemptuous words concerning his "comforters" ( Job 16:2 , Job 16:11 ; Job 17:10 ); and aims at nothing but venting his anger, and terrifying Job by a series of denunciations and threats. Job has become to him "the wicked man" (verses 5, 21), an embodiment of all that is evil, and one "that knoweth not God." No punishment is too severe for him. read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Job 18:1-21

Bildad to Job: an Arabian orator's discourse. I. THE FAULTY INTRODUCTION . Bildad possessed at least three qualifications indispensable to successful speaking—fervid imagination, glowing eloquence, and vehement passion. He was characterized also by three fatal defects—want of calmness, or self-containment, want of prudence, and want of sympathetic tenderness. Being destitute of these, he blundered like an inexperienced amateur, starting out on his oration in a hurricane of passion and... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Job 18:1-21

Renewed rebukes and warnings. Bildad again replies, mentioning that the passionate outbreaks of Job are useless. He holds fast to his original principle, that, according to the Law of God, the hardened sinner will suddenly meet his doom. And some secret sin, he persists, must be the cause of the present suffering. I. INTRODUCTION : DENUNCIATION OF JOB AS A FOOLISH AND VIOLENT SPEAKER . (Verses 1-4.) He is one who "hunts after words." Let him be truly sensible and... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Job 18:5-6

The light extinguished. This is a favourite idea of Bildad's, that occurs more than once in his harangue ( e.g. Job 18:18 ). As usual, we may here follow the imagery of the Shuhite without applying it to Job. Wickedness extinguishes light. I. THE LIGHT OF KNOWLEDGE . Bad men may be learned and good men may be ignorant in regard to the knowledge of the schools and the world. But there is a deeper knowledge from which sin excludes, a light to which wickedness simply blinds the... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Job 18:5-14

The fruits of impiety. Again Bildad speaks. He is not the sufferer, hut the judge. Be who came as a comforter utters but miserable words in the ears of the afflicted one. His words are true in themselves, but wrongly applied. Justly he describes the fruits of impiety. I. To THE IMPIOUS THE LIGHT OF PROSPERITY IS EXCHANGED FOR THE DARKNESS OF MISFORTUNE . His "lamp is put out." Sorrowfulness, sooner or later, overtakes him. For a time he is in great prosperity;... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Job 18:5-21

Bildad, from this point, turns wholly to denunciation. He strings together a long series of menaces—probably ancient saws, drawn from "the wisdom of the Beni Kedem" ( 1 Kings 4:30 ), and descriptive of the wretched fate of the wicked man, with whom he identifies Job. read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Job 18:6

The light shall be dark in his tabernacle . This is not, as Rosenmuller asserts, a mere repetition of the thought contained in the preceding verse with a change of terms, and a variation of metaphor. It is a denunciation of woe to the whole house of the ungodly man, not to himself only. As Schultens says, "Lumen ob-tenebratum in tentorio est fortuna domus extincta." And his candle shall be put out with him ; rather, as in the Revised Version, his!amp above him shall be put out ; ... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Job 18:5-10

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 18:6

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Job 18:6

The Pulpit Commentary - Job 18:1-21

The Pulpit Commentary - Job 18:1-21

The Pulpit Commentary - Job 18:1-21

The Pulpit Commentary - Job 18:5-6

The Pulpit Commentary - Job 18:5-14

The Pulpit Commentary - Job 18:5-21

The Pulpit Commentary - Job 18:6

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