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Job 18:16
The Pulpit Commentary on Job 18:16
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The Pulpit Commentary on Job 18:1-21Job 18:1-21 · The Pulpit CommentaryBildad 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.…The Pulpit Commentary on Job 18:1-21Job 18:1-21 · The Pulpit CommentaryRenewed 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 sudde…The Pulpit Commentary on Job 18:1-21Job 18:1-21 · The Pulpit CommentaryEXPOSITIONThe Pulpit Commentary on Job 18:1-21Job 18:1-21 · The Pulpit CommentaryBildad'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 noth…The Pulpit Commentary on Job 18:5-21Job 18:5-21 · The Pulpit CommentaryBildad, 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 o…Matthew Henry on Job 18:11-21Job 18:11-21 · Matthew Henry Concise CommentaryBildad describes the destruction wicked people are kept for, in the other world, and which in some degree, often seizes them in this world. The way of sin is the way of fear, and leads to everlasting confusion, of which…
commentaryThe Pulpit Commentary on Job 18:1-21Bildad 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.…Joseph S. Exell and contributorscommentaryThe Pulpit Commentary on Job 18:1-21EXPOSITIONJoseph S. Exell and contributorscommentaryThe Pulpit Commentary on Job 18:1-21Bildad'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 noth…Joseph S. Exell and contributorscommentaryThe Pulpit Commentary on Job 18:1-21Renewed 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 sudde…Joseph S. Exell and contributorscommentaryThe Pulpit Commentary on Job 18:5-21Bildad, 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 o…Joseph S. Exell and contributorscommentaryMatthew Henry on Job 18:11-21Bildad describes the destruction wicked people are kept for, in the other world, and which in some degree, often seizes them in this world. The way of sin is the way of fear, and leads to everlasting confusion, of which…Matthew HenrycommentaryMatthew Henry on Job 18:11-21Bildad here describes the destruction itself which wicked people are reserved for in the other world, and which, in some degree, often seizes them in this world. Come, and see what a miserable condition the sinner is in…Matthew HenrycommentaryThe Pulpit Commentary on Job 18:16Root and branch. Bildad dwells upon his favourite topic of the withering doom of the wicked. It is complete—root and branch are destroyed. A truth again, though inapplicable to Job. I. THE ROOTS DRIED UP. The roots stan…Joseph S. Exell and contributors