Sunday 10/02/14 Job 8, verses 8 - 19 8: For inquire, I pray thee, of the former age, and prepare thyself to the search of their fathers: 9: (For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth are a shadow:) 10: Shall not they teach thee, and tell thee, and utter words out of their heart? 11: Can the rush grow up without mire? can the flag grow without water? 12: Whilst it is yet in his greenness, and not cut down, it withereth before any other herb. 13: So are the paths of all that forget God; and the hypocrites hope shall perish: 14: Whose hope shall be cut off, and whose trust shall be a spiders web. 15: He shall lean upon his house, but it shall not stand: he shall hold it fast, but it shall not endure. 16: He is green before the sun, and his branch shooteth forth in his garden. 17: His roots are wrapped about the heap, and seeth the place of stones. 18: If he destroy him from his place, then it shall deny him, saying, I have not seen thee. 19: Behold, this is the joy of his way, and out of the earth shall others grow. Matthew Henry Commentary Verses 8-19: Bildad discourses well of hypocrites and evil-doers, and the fatal end of all their hopes and joys. He proves this truth of the destruction of the hopes and joys of hypocrites, by an appeal to former times. Bildad refers to the testimony of the ancients. Those teach best that utter words out of their heart, that speak from an experience of spiritual and divine things. A rush growing in fenny ground, looking very green, but withering in dry weather, represents the hypocrites profession, which is maintained only in times of prosperity. The spiders web, spun with great skill, but easily swept away, represents a mans pretensions to religion when without the grace of God in his heart. A formal professor flatters himself in his own eyes, doubts not of his salvation, is secure, and cheats the world with his vain confidences. The flourishing of the tree, planted in the garden, striking root to the rock, yet after a time cut down and thrown aside, represents wicked men, when most firmly established, suddenly thrown down and forgotten. This doctrine of the vanity of a hypocrites confidence, or the prosperity of a wicked man, is sound; but it was not applicable to the case of Job, if confined to the present world.
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