Chapter 18:
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Introduction 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 Esther Psalms
Job 18
Concise Complete
Bildad reproves Job. (1-4) Ruin attends the wicked. (5-10)
The ruin of the wicked. (11-21)
Verses 1-4 Bildad had
before given Job good advice and encouragement; here he used nothing but
rebukes, and declared his ruin. And he concluded that Job shut out the
providence of God from the management of human affairs, because he would not
admit himself to be wicked.
Verses 5-10 Bildad
describes the miserable condition of a wicked man; in which there is much
certain truth, if we consider that a sinful condition is a sad condition, and
that sin will be men's ruin, if they do not repent. Though Bildad thought the
application of it to Job was easy, yet it was not safe nor just. It is common
for angry disputants to rank their opponents among God's enemies, and to draw
wrong conclusions from important truths. The destruction of the wicked is
foretold. That destruction is represented under the similitude of a beast or
bird caught in a snare, or a malefactor taken into custody. Satan, as he was a
murderer, so he was a robber, from the beginning. He, the tempter, lays snares
for sinners wherever they go. If he makes them sinful like himself, he will make
them miserable like himself. Satan hunts for the precious life. In the
transgression of an evil man there is a snare for himself, and God is preparing
for his destruction. See here how the sinner runs himself into the snare.
Verses 11-21 Bildad
describes the destruction wicked people are kept for, in the other world, and
which in some degree, often seizes them in this world. The way of sin is the way
of fear, and leads to everlasting confusion, of which the present terrors of an
impure conscience are earnests, as in Cain and Judas. Miserable indeed is a
wicked man's death, how secure soever his life was. See him dying; all that he
trusts to for his support shall be taken from him. How happy are the saints, and
how indebted to the lord Jesus, by whom death is so far done away and changed,
that this king of terrors is become a friend and a servant! See the wicked man's
family sunk and cut off. His children shall perish, either with him or after
him. Those who consult the true honour of their family, and its welfare, will be
afraid of withering all by sin. The judgments of God follow the wicked man after
death in this world, as a proof of the misery his soul is in after death, and as
an earnest of that everlasting shame and contempt to which he shall rise in the
great day. The memory of the just is blessed, but the name of the wicked shall
rot, Pr 10:7. It would be well if this report of wicked men would cause any to
flee from the wrath to come, from which their power, policy, and riches cannot
deliver them. But Jesus ever liveth to deliver all who trust in him. Bear up
then, suffering believers. Ye shall for a little time have sorrow, but your
Beloved, your Saviour, will see you again; your hearts shall rejoice, and your
joy no man taketh away.
Chapter 18:
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