Job 18:1

Bildad’s Second Speech

1 Then Bildad the Shuhite answered and said,

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 Then Bildad the Shuhite answered and said,
2 "{How long} {will you hunt for words}? Consider, and afterward we shall speak.
3 Why are we considered as animals? [Why] are we taken as stupid in your eyes?
4 "[You who] are tearing {yourself} in your anger, will [the] earth be forsaken because of you? Or will [the] rock be removed from its place?
5 Furthermore, the light of [the] wicked is put out, and the flame of his fire will not shine.

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