Job 8:16 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁶He is green before the sun, and his branch shooteth forth in his garden.

Job 8:16 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Psalms 80:11
She sent out her boughs unto the sea, and her branches unto the river.
Job 5:3
I have seen the foolish taking root: but suddenly I cursed his habitation.
Psalms 37:35-36
I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a green bay tree. …
Psalms 73:3-12
For I was envious at the foolish, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked. …
Job 21:7-15
Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in power? …

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 8-19)

Bildad 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 were ever cut off thus (Job 4:7); yet he takes it for granted that God, in the course of his providence, does ordinarily bring wicked men, who seemed pious and were prosperous, to shame and…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 16)

16. before the sun--that is, he (the godless) is green only before the sun rises; but he cannot bear its heat, and withers. So succulent plants like the gourd (Jon 4:7, 8). But the widespreading in the garden does not quite accord with this. Better, “in sunshine”; the sun representing the smiling fortune of the hypocrite, during which he wondrously progresses [Umbreit]. The image is that of weeds…