Job 8

Job 8:2

LIke a strong winde] Be violent against God.

Job 8:3

Doth God pervert judgement?] Deuteronomy 32:4. 2 Chron. 19. 7. Daniel 9:14. Romans 3:5.

Job 8:4

and he have cast them away] That is, hath rewarded them according to their iniquitie: meaning, that Job ought to be warned by the example of his children, that he offend not God.

for their transgression] Heb. in the hand of their transgression.

Job 8:5

If thou wouldest seek unto God betimes] Chap. 22. 23. and 5. 8. and 11. 13.

betimes] If thou seek to God speedily, while he calls thee to repentance.

make thy supplication] Pray to God for grace and favour, for so the word signifies.

Job 8:7

Though thy beginning was small] Though thou thrivedst not presently, yet afterward thou shouldest have abundance.

Job 8:8

For enquire] Deuteronomy 4:32. Job. 5. 18.

enquire, I pray thee] He willeth Job to examine all antiquitie, and he shall finde it true, which he here saith.

Job 8:9

we are but of yesterday] Genesis 47:9. 1 Chro. 29. 15. Chap. 7. 6. Psalms 39:5. and Psalms 144:4. Meaning, that it is not enough to use our own experience, but we must be confirmed also by the examples of such as went before us.

nothing] Heb. nt.

Job 8:10

Shall not they teach thee] Concerning Gods judgement, and the issue of good deeds and bad. Saying as followeth.

Job 8:11

Can the rush grow up without mire?] As a rush cannot grow without moisture, so a man cannot thrive without piety, which procures Gods blessing.

Job 8:12

Whilest it is yet in his greennesse] Psalms 129:6. Jerem. 17. 6.

Job 8:13

hypocrites hope shall perish] Chap. 11. 20. and 18. 14. Psalms 112:10. Proverbs 10:28.

Job 8:14

whose trust shall be a spiders web] Which is to day, and to morrow is swept away, Isaiah 59:5.

a spiders web] Heb. a spiders house.

web] Isaiah 59:6.

Job 8:16

He is green before the sun] An hypocrite may for a time flourish, maugre the plots of his adversaries, as a tree may be green a while, even when the sun scorches, and yet perish soon after, Psalms 37:35. Proverbs 20:5. and 27. 8

Job 8:17

His roots are wrapped about the heap] He may for a while overcome all lets of his prosperity, as a tree growing among stones.

place] Heb. house.

Job 8:18

then it shall deny him] There shall remain nothing there to prove, that the tree once grew there. So shall the flourishing hypocrite be forgotten, Psal. 37. 35, 36.

Job 8:19

this is the joy of his way] What joy can he have, when he is destroyed, and others dwell in his room?

Job 8:20

Behold] Hitherto from the beginning of the eleventh verse, were the words of the ancients: now Bildad makes his conclusion out of them.

cast away] Heb. despise.

neither will he help the evil-doers] Either these words must be read by a parenthesis, or else, evil doers must be taken for Jobs enemies, because it follows, Till he fill thy mouth. The latter agrees with v. 22. The former, with that which went before.

help the evil-doers] Heb. take the ungodly by the hand.

Job 8:21

Till he fill thy mouth with laughing] If thou be godly, he will give thee matter of exceeding great joy, Gen. 21. 6, 7.

rejoycing] Heb. shouting for joy.

Job 8:22

clothed with shame] Psalms 132:18.

dwelling-place] Heb. tent.

shall come to nought] Heb. shall not be.