Then Bildad the Shuhite answered and said:
Parallel translations
- WEB Then Bildad the Shuhite answered,
- KJV Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,
- BSB Then Bildad the Shuhite replied:
- NASB Then Bildad the Shuhite responded,
- NLT Then Bildad the Shuhite replied:
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Quick answer
Bildad the Shuhite begins his second speech in reply to Job. The narrative marks another friend taking up the argument.
Overview
This introduces Bildad's second address, in chapter 18, responding to Job's lament. Stung by Job's words, Bildad will again insist on the certain doom of the wicked, pressing the friends' rigid retribution theology. His speech continues the cycle of debate that the book uses to expose the inadequacy of simplistic explanations of suffering.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 4
- Job 8:1Then Bildad the Shuhite answered,
- Job 2:11Now when Job’s three friends heard of all this evil that had come on him, they each came from his own place: Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite; and they made an appointment together to come to sympathize with him and to comfort him.
- Job 25:1Then Bildad the Shuhite answered,
- Job 42:7–9It was so, that after Yahweh had spoken these words to Job, Yahweh said to Eliphaz the Temanite, “My wrath is kindled against you, and against your two friends; for you have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job has.
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