Job 18:1

Attack from a friend

1 Bildad from Shuah answered:

Job 18:1 Meaning and Commentary

Job 18:1

Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said.
] Who, next to Eliphaz, spoke before, and now in his turn attacks Job a second time, and more roughly and severely than before; now he gives him no advice or counsel, nor any instructions and exhortations for his good, nor suggests that it might be better times with him again, as he had done before; but only heaps up charges against him, and describes the miserable circumstances of a wicked man, as near to Job's as he could; thereby endeavouring to confirm his former position, that wicked men are punished of God, and to have this conclusion drawn from it, that Job must needs be a wicked man, since he was so greatly afflicted.

Job 18:1 In-Context

1 Bildad from Shuah answered:

2 How long? Would you all stop talking. Try to understand and then we can speak.

3 Why are we considered beasts, ignorant in your sight?

4 To you who tear yourself in rage— will earth be forsaken for your sake, a rock be dislodged from its place?

5 To be sure, the light of the wicked goes out; the blaze of their fire doesn't shine.