The First Speech of Bildad
Holding the same doctrine about sin and suffering as Eliphaz, Bildad supports the views of his friend by an appeal to the teaching of antiquity. He shows less sympathy and more narrowness of mind than Eliphaz.
1-7. Bildad maintains the justice of God's actions. Since Job's children have perished it must have been for their sins. As for Job, if he would but repent he would be restored to prosperity.
CHAPTER VIII _Bildad answers, and reproves Job for his justifying himself_, 1, 2. _Shows that God is just, and never punishes but for iniquity;_ _and intimates that it was on account of their sins...
THEN ANSWERED BILDAD THE SHUHITE - ; see the notes at Job 2:11....
CHAPTER 8 BILDAD'S ADDRESS _ 1. How long, Job? (Job 8:1)_ 2. Enquire of the former age (Job 8:8) 3. God's dealing with the wicked and the righteous (Job 8:11)...
OPENING OF BILDAD'S FIRST SPEECH. The two younger friends, says Duhm, make a less favourable impression than Eliphaz. Bildad's great point is the discriminating rectitude of God, who unfailingly rewar...
The discriminating rectitude of God 2. Before coming to his principle and by way of introducing it Bildad expresses his wonder that Job should allow himself to speak such things as his discourse conta...
_BILDAD AFFIRMS, THAT IF JOB WAS INNOCENT, HE WOULD BE IMMEDIATELY RESTORED TO HIS FORMER SPLENDOR, ON HIS MAKING SUPPLICATION TO THE ALMIGHTY. HE SHEWS THAT THE WICKED IS LIKE THE BULRUSH, WHICH WITH...
D. THE GREAT ABSENCE: EMPATHY AND SYMPATHYBILDAD Job 8:1-22 1. God is just and has not been unrighteous. (Job 8:1-7) (A rebuke of Job.) TEXT 8:1-7 8 THEN ANSWERED BILDAD THE SHUHITE, AND SAID, 2 H...
_THEN ANSWERED BILDAD THE SHUHITE, AND SAID,_ No JFB commentary on this verse....
Job’s words upset Bildad greatly. Job seemed to have no hope. Bildad understood Job’s words. But Bildad was sorry that Job had even spoken. Bildad would prefer to listen to something that had no meani...
JOB, A SERVANT OF GOD Job _KEITH SIMONS_ Words in boxes (except for words in brackets) are from the Bible. This commentary has been through Advanced Checking. CHAPTER 8 BILDAD’S FIRST SPEECH TH...
וַ֭ יַּעַן בִּלְדַּ֥ד הַ שּׁוּחִ֗י וַ יֹאמַֽר
XIX. VENTURESOME THEOLOGY Job 8:1 BILDAD SPEAKS THE first attempt to meet Job has been made by one who relies on his own experience and takes pleasure in recounting the things which he has seen. Bi...
GOD WILL NOT CAST AWAY Job 8:1 Bildad now takes up the argument, appealing to the experience of former generations to show that special suffering, like Job's, indicated special sin, however deeply c...
In answer to Job, the next of his friends, Bildad, took up the argument. There is greater directness in his speech than in that of Eliphaz. By comparison it lacks in courtesy, but gains in force. He m...
_Suhite, from Sue, the son of Abraham, who dwelt in the desert Arabia; (Genesis xxv. 2.) though several suppose, without reason, (Calmet) that Baldad resided at Sueta, in C\'9closyria. (Menochius) ---...
CONTENTS We have here a new speaker, but to the same old account. Bildad the Shuhite, seconds what Eliphaz had advanced; and in his condemnation of Job, seems to rest the conclusion of the argument u...
(1) В¶ Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said, (2) How long wilt thou speak these things? and how long shall the words of thy mouth be like a strong wind? (3) Doth God pervert judgment? or doth th...
Bildad's Lecture I. INTRODUCTION A. Last week in Job's reply to Eliphaz - we saw a small glimpse of the Job's physical condition: 1. The worms, the sores that would break open in the sleepless nigh...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 4 THROUGH 31. As to the friends of Job, they do not call for any extended remarks. They urge the doctrine that God's earthly government is a full measure and...
THEN ANSWERED BILDAD THE SHUHITE, AND SAID. This was the second of Job's friends that came to visit him, Job 2:11; and is mentioned next to Eliphaz there, and takes his turn in this controversy in the...
Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said, Ver. 1. _Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said_] Bildad (who was of the posterity of Shuah, Abraham's son by Keturah, Gen 24:1-2) interrupteth Job, an...
_Then answered Bildad the Shuhite_ “Bildad, whose sentiments are the same with those of the preceding friend, now comes to the attack, and tells Job that his general asseverations of innocence are of...
AN ADMONITION TO JOB TO REPENT OF HIS SIN...
Then answered Bildad, the Shuhite, 2:11, AND SAID,...
BILDAD'S CRUEL RESPONSE (vv.1-22) Bildad's response to Job was much more brief than that of Eliphaz, but following along the same line. He did not begin in the conciliatory way that Eliphaz did, how...
"Whereas Eliphaz had begun politely, Bildad in his shorter speech began abruptly" _(Zuck p. 43)._ His opening is blunt. He seems upset that Job has not listened to the advice given by Eliphaz, and tha...
1-7 Job spake much to the purpose; but Bildad, like an eager, angry disputant, turns it all off with this, How long wilt thou speak these things? Men's meaning is not taken aright, and then they are...
JOB CHAPTER 8 Bildad's reproof: Job's words said to be as wind: God just in all his ways, and in his dealings towards Job's children: if he would pray to God, and was indeed pure and upright, God woul...
Job 8:1 Bildad H1085 Shuhite H7747 answered H6030 (H8799) said H559 (H8799) Bildad - Job 2:11...
BILDAD Bildad is a religious dogmatist of the superficial kind, whose dogmatism rests upon tradition (for example) (Job 8:8) and upon proverbial wisdom and approved pious phrases. These abound in all...
CONTENTS: Bildad's theory of Job's affliction. CHARACTERS: God, Bildad, Job. CONCLUSION: It is not just or charitable to argue that merely because one is in deep affliction, he is therefore a hypocr...
Job 8:7. _Though thy beginning was small, yet thy latter end should be great._ Many great patriarchs, like Jacob, had once but a small beginning. Job 8:11. _Can the rush grow._ The LXX read, “the pap...
_Then answered Bildad the Shuhite._ BILDAD’S UNSYMPATHETIC SPEECH Bildad grasps at once, as we say, the nettle. He is quite sure that he has the key to the secret of the distribution among mankind of...
JOB—NOTE ON JOB 8:1 Bildad is the second friend to “comfort” Job. ⇐ ⇔...
_BILDAD’S FIRST SPEECH_ Bildad less courteous and considerate of Job’s feelings than even Eliphaz. Commences with an unfeeling reflection on his speech. Pursues the same line of argument and address...
EXPOSITION JOB 8:1 THEN ANSWERED BILDAD THE SHUHITE, AND SAID. Bildad the Shuhite has the second place in the passage where Job's friends are first mentioned (Job 2:11), and occupies the same relativ...
So Bildad, the next friend, speaks up and he said, How long will you speak these things? how long will your words of your mouth be like a [big, bag of] wind? Does God pervert judgment? or does the Al...
Job 2:11...