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Selected Verse: Job 8:1 - Strong Concordance
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Job 8:1 |
Strong Concordance |
Then answered [06030] Bildad [01085] the Shuhite [07747], and said [0559], |
| |
King James |
Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said, |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
| Then answered Bildad the Shuhite - ; see the notes at Job 2:11. |
| The Scofield Bible Commentary, by Cyrus Ingerson Scofield, [1917] |
Bildad
Bildad is a religious dogmatist of the superficial kind, whose dogmatism rests upon tradition (for example) (Job 8:8-10) and upon proverbial wisdom and approved pious phrases. These abound in all his discourses. His platitudes are true enough, but then every one knows them. (Job 9:1); (Job 9:2); (Job 13:2) nor do they shed any light on such a problem as Job's. |
| Commentary on the Old Testament, by Carl Friedrich Keil and Franz Delitzsch [1857-78] |
1 Then began Bildad the Shuhite, and said:
2 How long wilt thou utter such things,
And the words of thy mouth are a boisterous wind?
3 Will God reverse what is right,
Or the Almighty reverse what is just?
4 When thy children sinned against Him,
He gave them over to the hand of their wickedness.
Bildad
(Note: Nothing can be said respecting the signification of the name בּלדּד even as a probable meaning, unless perhaps = בל־דד, sine mammis, i.e., brought up without his mother's milk.)
begins harshly and self-confidently with quousque tandem, עד־אן instead of the usual עד־אנה. אלּה, not: this, but: of this kind, of such kind, as Job 12:3; Job 16:2. כּבּיר רוּח is poetical, equivalent to גּדולה רוּח, Job 1:19; רוּח is gen. comm. in the signification wind as well as spirit, although more frequently fem. than masc. He means that Job's speeches are like the wind in their nothingness, and like a boisterous wind in their vehemence. Bildad sees the justice of God, the Absolute One, which ought to be universally acknowledged, impugned in them. In order not to say directly that Job's children had died such a sudden death on account of their sin, he speaks conditionally. If they have sinned, death is just the punishment of their sin. God has not arbitrarily swept them away, but has justly given them over to the destroying hand of their wickedness, - a reference to the prologue which belongs inseparably to the whole. |
| Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
| Bildad the Shuhite - Supposed to be a descendant of Shuah, one of the sons of Abraham, by Keturah, who dwelt in Arabia Deserta, called in Scripture the east country. See Gen 25:1, Gen 25:2, Gen 25:6. |
11 Now when Job's [0347] three [07969] friends [07453] heard [08085] of all this evil [07451] that was come [0935] upon him, they came [0935] every one [0376] from his own place [04725]; Eliphaz [0464] the Temanite [08489], and Bildad [01085] the Shuhite [07747], and Zophar [06691] the Naamathite [05284]: for they had made an appointment [03259] together [03162] to come [0935] to mourn [05110] with him and to comfort [05162] him.
2 What ye know [01847], the same do I know [03045] also: I am not inferior [05307] unto you.
2 I know [03045] it is so of a truth [0551]: but how should man [0582] be just [06663] with God [0410]?
1 Then Job [0347] answered [06030] and said [0559],
8 For enquire [07592], I pray thee, of the former [07223] [07223] age [01755], and prepare [03559] thyself to the search [02714] of their fathers [01]:
9 (For we are but of yesterday [08543], and know [03045] nothing, because our days [03117] upon earth [0776] are a shadow [06738]:)
10 Shall not they teach [03384] thee, and tell [0559] thee, and utter [03318] words [04405] out of their heart [03820]?
19 And, behold, there came [0935] a great [01419] wind [07307] from [05676] the wilderness [04057], and smote [05060] the four [0702] corners [06438] of the house [01004], and it fell [05307] upon the young men [05288], and they are dead [04191]; and I only am escaped [04422] alone to tell [05046] thee.
2 I have heard [08085] many such things [07227]: miserable [05999] comforters [05162] are ye all.
3 But [01571] I have understanding [03824] as well as you; I am not inferior [05307] to you: yea, who knoweth not such things [03644] as these?
6 But unto the sons [01121] of the concubines [06370], which Abraham [085] had, Abraham [085] gave [05414] gifts [04979], and sent them away [07971] from Isaac [03327] his son [01121], while he yet lived [02416], eastward [06924], unto the east [06924] country [0776].
2 And she bare [03205] him Zimran [02175], and Jokshan [03370], and Medan [04091], and Midian [04080], and Ishbak [03435], and Shuah [07744].
1 Then again [03254] Abraham [085] took [03947] a wife [0802], and her name [08034] was Keturah [06989].