Job 25:1
in Job 25Then Bildad the Shuhite replied:
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ASV
Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,
KJV
Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,
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This verse in Job 25
Commentary
4 notes on this verseBildad the Shuhite - This is the last attack on Job; the others felt themselves foiled, though they had not humility enough to acknowledge it, but would not again return to the attack. Bildad has little to say, and that little is very little to the point. He makes a few assertions, particularly in reference to what Job had said in the commencement of the preceding chapter, of his desire to appear before God, and have his case tried by him, as he had the utmost confidence that his innocence should be fully proved.
This site's exposition
Then Bildad the Shuhite replied
on Job 25:1-3
Bildad's third speech runs six verses, the shortest, and after it Zophar never speaks a third time. What remains is majesty with no application: "Dominion and awe belong to God". Gill reads the question about "His light" as the sun shared by every man, whatever his standing before God.
The record, by era
The Medieval Church1 voice
Job in his answer had now refuted the two calumnies which Eliphaz had thrown at him in his previous response. (22:5,12) He had shown that he was punished neither for sin nor for denying divine providence. He had shown very clearly that it was not …
The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice
Then answered Bildad the Shuhite,....
How the passage was read
What the Jewish commentators add
On the verses either side of this one
Bildad’s reply Dominion and fear Directed towards what Job said (23:4), “I would set out my case before Him,” he says to him, “Dominion and fear are with Him.” “Dominion” refers to Michael, and “fear” refers to Gabriel. Can you answer even one of them?
This section is reception history: how the passage was read and kept in the Jewish tradition. Where a reading parts from an essential of the Christian faith, the section says so at that point.
Texts and citation data: Sefaria; each excerpt follows its version’s licence. 7 further sources are cited on this chapter that carry no English text this site may quote or only restate the verse.
The words behind it
4 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וַ֭יַּעַן | vaiyaan | and he answered | H6030 → | 331 times |
| בִּלְדַּ֥ד | bildad | Bildad | H1085 → | 5 times |
| הַשֻּׁחִ֗י | hashuchi | the Shuhite | H7747 → | 5 times |
| וַיֹּאמַֽר׃ | vaiyomar | and he said | H559 → | 5305 times |
וַ֭יַּעַןand he answered
vaiyaanH6030 →331 times
בִּלְדַּ֥דBildad
bildadH1085 →5 times
הַשֻּׁחִ֗יthe Shuhite
hashuchiH7747 →5 times
וַיֹּאמַֽר׃and he said
vaiyomarH559 →5305 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
About Job
This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible and Thomas Aquinas, Commentary on Job.