Bildad's second speech, all wrath and no counsel: how long will ye lay snares for words? Wherefore are we counted as beasts in your sight? Then twenty verses on the fate of the wicked, aimed at a man who has just buried ten children. 'Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out' (18:5); his own counsel casts him down; he is caught by heel and snare and trap; 'terrors shall make him afraid on every side.' Disease devours his skin ('the first-born of death') and he is torn from the tent he trusted and brought to 'the king of terrors.' He has neither son nor son's son among his people.

Drawn from Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory, Matthew Henry, Complete Commentary and John Wesley, Notes on the Old Testament.

Context

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A. 1–4 Bildad: How Long Till Ye Make an End of Words?
B. 5–21 Bildad: The Light of the Wicked Shall Be Put Out

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