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Job 8:8
Job 8:8
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Job 8 — OverviewJob 8 · Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Whole BibleJob's friends are like Job's messengers: the latter followed one
another close with evil tidings, the former followed him with harsh
censures: both, unawares, served Satan's design; these to drive him
from his…Job 8 — OverviewJob 8 · Treasury of Scripture KnowledgeJob 8:1, Bildad shews God’s justice in dealing with men according to their works; Job 8:8, He alleges antiquity to prove the certain destruction of the hypocrite; Job 8:20, He applies God’s just dealing to Job.Job 8 — OverviewJob 8 · John Gill's Exposition of the Entire BibleIn this chapter Bildad enters the discussion with Job; proceeding upon the same lines as Eliphaz, he reproves him for his long and loud talkJob 8:8-19Job 8:8-19 · Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Whole BibleBildad here discourses very well on the sad catastrophe of hypocrites
and evil-doers and the fatal period of all their hopes and joys. He
will not be so bold as to say with Eliphaz that none that were
righteous…Job 8:8Job 8:8 · John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bibleand then by various similes used by the ancients, or taken from them by Bildad, or which were of his own inventing and framing, are set forth the short lived enjoyments, and vain hope and confidence, of hypocrites and…Job 8:8Job 8:8 · John Gill's Exposition of the Entire BibleFor inquire, I pray thee, of the former age,.... With respect to the truth of what he had said, or should say; he does not desire Job to take his word for it, but inquire how it was in former times; by which it would…
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