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<p id="Chapter18" align="center">Commentary by A. R. FAUSSET<br>CHAPTER 18
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<p id="Job18_1">SECOND SERIES.
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<p><a onclick="return mV('Job',18,'1-21');">Job 18:1-21</a>. REPLY OF BILDAD.
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<p id="Job18_2"><b>2. ye</b>—the other two friends of Job, whom Bildad charges with having spoken mere "words," that is, empty speeches; opposed to "mark," that is, come to <i>reason,</i> consider the question <i>intelligently;</i> and then let us speak.
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<p id="Job18_3"><b>3. beasts</b>—alluding to what Job said (<a onclick="return mV('Job',12,7);">Job 12:7</a>; so <a onclick="return mV('Isa',1,3);">Isa 1:3</a>).
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<br><br><b>vile</b>—rather from a <i>Hebrew</i> root, "to stop up." "Stubborn," answering to the stupidity implied in the parallel first clause [UMBREIT]. Why should we give occasion by your empty speeches for our being mutually reputed, in the sight of Job and one another, as unintelligent? (<a onclick="return mV('Job',17,4, 10);">Job 17:4, 10</a>).
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<p id="Job18_4"><b>4.</b> Rather, turning to Job, "thou that tearest thyself in anger" (<a onclick="return mV('Job',5,2);">Job 5:2</a>).
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<br><br><b>be forsaken?</b>—become desolate. He alludes here to Job's words as to the "rock," crumbling away (<a onclick="return mV('Job',14,18,19);">Job 14:18-19</a>); but in a different application. He says bitterly "for thee." Wert thou not punished as thou art, and as thou art unwilling to bear, the eternal order of the universe would be disturbed and the earth become desolate through unavenged wickedness [UMBREIT]. Bildad takes it for granted Job is a great sinner (<a onclick="return mV('Job',8,'3-6');">Job 8:3-6</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Isa',24,5,6);">Isa 24:5-6</a>). "Shall that which stands fast as a rock be removed for your special accommodation?"
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<p id="Job18_5"><b>5.</b> That (<a onclick="return mV('Job',18,4);">Job 18:4</a>) cannot be. The decree of God is unalterable, the light (prosperity) of the wicked shall at length be put out.
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<br><br><b>his fire</b>—alluding to Arabian hospitality, which prided itself on welcoming the stranger to the fire in the tent, and even lit fires to direct him to it. The ungodly shall be deprived of the means to show hospitality. His dwelling shall be dark and desolate!
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<p id="Job18_6"><b>6. candle</b>—the lamp which in the East is usually fastened to the ceiling. Oil abounds in those regions, and the lamp was kept burning all night, as now in Egypt, where the poorest would rather dispense with food than the night lamp (<a onclick="return mV('Psa',18,28);">Psa 18:28</a>). To put out the lamp was an image of utter desolation.
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<p id="Job18_7"><b>7. steps of his strength</b>—<i>Hebrew,</i> for "His strong steps." A firm step marks health. To be straitened in steps is to be no longer able to move about at will (<a onclick="return mV('Pro',4,12);">Pro 4:12</a>).
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<br><br><b>his own counsel</b>—Plans shall be the means of his fall (<a onclick="return mV('Job',5,13);">Job 5:13</a>).
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<p id="Job18_8"><b>8. he walketh upon</b>—rather, "he <i>lets himself go into</i> the net" [UMBREIT]. If the <i>English Version</i> be retained, then understand "snare" to be the pitfall, covered over with branches and earth, which when walked upon give way (<a onclick="return mV('Psa',9,15);">Psa 9:15</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Psa',35,8);">35:8</a>).
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<p id="Job18_9"><b>9. robber</b>—rather answering to "gin" in the parallel clause, "the <i>noose</i> shall hold him fast" [UMBREIT].
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<p id="Job18_11"><b>11. Terrors</b>—often mentioned in this book (<a onclick="return mV('Job',18,14);">Job 18:14</a> 24:17; etc.). The terrors excited through an evil conscience are here personified. "Magor-missabib" (<a onclick="return mV('Jer',20,3);">Jer 20:3</a>).
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<br><br><b>drive...to his feet</b>—rather, "shall pursue" (literally, "scatter," <a onclick="return mV('Hab',3,14);">Hab 3:14</a>) him close "at his heels" (literally, "immediately after his feet," <a onclick="return mV('Hab',3,5);">Hab 3:5</a>; <a onclick="return mV('1Sa',25,42);">1Sa 25:42</a>; <i>Hebrew</i>). The image is that of a pursuing conqueror who scatters the enemy [UMBREIT].
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<p id="Job18_12"><b>12.</b> The <i>Hebrew</i> is brief and bold, "his strength is hungry."
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<br><br><b>destruction</b>—that is, a great calamity (<a onclick="return mV('Pro',1,27);">Pro 1:27</a>).
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<br><br><b>ready at his side</b>—close at hand to destroy him (<a onclick="return mV('Pro',19,29);">Pro 19:29</a>).
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<p id="Job18_13"><b>13.</b> UMBREIT has "he" for "it," that is, "in the rage of hunger he shall devour his own body"; or, "his own children" (<a onclick="return mV('Lam',4,10);">Lam 4:10</a>). Rather, "destruction" from <a onclick="return mV('Job',18,12);">Job 18:12</a> is nominative to "devour."
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<br><br><b>strength</b>—rather, "members" (literally, the "branches" of a tree).
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<br><br><b>the first-born of death</b>—a personification full of poetical horror. The first-born son held the chief place (<a onclick="return mV('Gen',49,3);">Gen 49:3</a>); so here <i>the chiefest (most deadly) disease</i> that death has ever engendered (<a onclick="return mV('Isa',14,30);">Isa 14:30</a>; "first-born of the poor"—the poorest). The Arabs call fever, "daughter of death."
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<p id="Job18_14"><b>14. confidence</b>—all that the father trusted in for domestic happiness, children, fortune, etc., referring to Job's losses.
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<br><br><b>rooted out</b>—suddenly torn away, it shall bring—that is, he shall be brought; or, as UMBREIT better has, "<i>Thou</i> (God) shalt bring him <i>slowly.</i>" The <i>Hebrew</i> expresses, "to stride slowly and solemnly." The godless has a fearful death for long before his eyes, and is at last taken by it. Alluding to Job's case. The King of terrors, not like the heathen Pluto, the tabled ruler of the dead, but Death, with all its terrors to the ungodly, personified.
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<p id="Job18_15"><b>15. It</b>—"Terror" shall haunt, etc., and not as UMBREIT, "another," which the last clause of the verse disproves.
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<br><br><b>none of his</b>—It is his no longer.
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<br><br><b>brimstone</b>—probably comparing the calamity of Job by the "fire of God" (<a onclick="return mV('Job',1,16);">Job 1:16</a>) to the destruction of guilty Sodom by fire and brimstone (<a onclick="return mV('Gen',19,24);">Gen 19:24</a>).
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<p id="Job18_16"><b>16. Roots</b>—himself.
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<br><br><b>branch</b>—his children (<a onclick="return mV('Job',8,12);">Job 8:12</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Job',15,30);">15:30</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Mal',4,1);">Mal 4:1</a>).
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<p id="Job18_17"><b>17. street</b>—Men shall not speak of him in meeting in the highways; rather, "in the field" or "meadow"; the shepherds shall no more mention his name—a picture from nomadic life [UMBREIT].
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<p id="Job18_18"><b>18. light...darkness</b>—existence—nonexistence.
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<p id="Job18_19"><b>19. nephew</b>—(so <a onclick="return mV('Isa',14,22);">Isa 14:22</a>). But it is translated "grandson" (<a onclick="return mV('Gen',21,23);">Gen 21:23</a>); translate "kinsman."
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<p id="Job18_20"><b>20. after...before</b>—rather, "those in the West—those in the East"; that is, all people; literally, "those behind—those before"; for Orientals in geography turn with their faces to the east (not to the north as we), and back to the west; so that <i>before</i>—east; <i>behind</i>—north (so <a onclick="return mV('Zec',14,8);">Zec 14:8</a>).
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<br><br><b>day</b>—of ruin (<a onclick="return mV('Oba',1,12);">Oba 1:12</a>).
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<br><br><b>affrighted</b>—seized with terror (<a onclick="return mV('Job',21,6);">Job 21:6</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Isa',13,8);">Isa 13:8</a>).
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<p id="Job18_21"><b>21.</b> (<a onclick="return mV('Job',8,22);">Job 8:22</a>, <i>Margin</i>).
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