Job 8:16 - Exposition

He is green before the sun . Bildad here introduces a third and more elaborate simile. The hypocrite, or ungodly man ( Job 8:13 ), is as a gourd ( Jonah 4:6 ), or other rapidly growing plant, which shoots forth at sunrise with a wealth of greenery, spreading itself over a whole garden, and even sending forth its sprays and tendrils beyond it (comp. Genesis 49:22 )—lovely to look at, and full, apparently, of life and vigour. And his branch shooteth forth in his garden; rather, over his garden , or beyond his , garden .