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Then Bildad the Shuhite replied:

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Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,

KJV

Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,

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This verse in Job 8

Commentary

6 notes on this verse
Then answered Bildad, the Shuhite, and said, How long wilt thou speak these things? and how long shall the breath of the words of thy mouth be multiplied? To the unrighteous the words of the righteous are ever grievous, and such as they hear spoken for edification, they bear as a burthen put upon them. As Bildad, the Shuhite, plainly indicates in his own case, when he says, How long wilt thou speak these things? For he that says how long, shews that he cannot any longer bear words of edification.

This site's exposition

Then Bildad the Shuhite replied

on Job 8:1-3

Bildad the Shuhite opens the book's second speech by calling Job's words "a blustering wind," noise without substance. His question, "Does God pervert justice," states true doctrine. The question expects the answer no, a fixed premise from which Bildad will argue that Job's guilt must follow.

The record, by era

The Medieval Church1 voice

A commentator

Thomas Aquinas

Commentary on Job · Written before 1274.

proposed

In the discourse which Job just finished, he had responded to the speech of Eliphaz. He showed Eliphaz was mistaken in a deep and efficacious way. But Bildad of Shuah, who agreed with the same opinion of Eliphaz, did not understand the profundity of Blessed …

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said. This was the second of Job's friends that came to visit him, Job 2:11; and is mentioned next to Eliphaz there, and takes his turn in this controversy in the same side; which no doubt was agreed upon among themselves, as well as the part each should bear, and the general sentiment they should pursue, which was the same in them all.

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

Bildad the Shuhite - Supposed to be a descendant of Shuah, one of the sons of Abraham, by Keturah, who dwelt in Arabia Deserta, called in Scripture the east country. See Gen 25:1, Gen 25:2, Gen 25:6.
Then answered Bildad the Shuhite - ; see the notes at Job 2:11.

The words behind it

4 Hebrew words

Every 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.

  • וַ֭יַּעַןand he answered

    vaiyaanH6030 →331 times

  • בִּלְדַּ֥דBildad

    bildadH1085 →5 times

  • הַשּׁוּחִ֗יthe Shuhite

    hashuchiH7747 →5 times

  • וַיֹאמַֽר׃and he said

    vayomarH559 →5305 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

Related verses

4 in all, six open

The walk

5 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Job 2:11

    Now when Job’s three friends—Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite—heard about all this adversity that had come upon him, each of them came from his home, and they met together…

    it leads to

    • Romans 12:15

      Rejoice with those who rejoice; weep with those who weep.

    • Job 42:11

      All his brothers and sisters and prior acquaintances came and dined with him in his house. They consoled him and comforted him over all the adversity that the LORD had brought upon him. And…

    • Job 6:14

      A despairing man should have the kindness of his friend, even if he forsakes the fear of the Almighty.

    • Proverbs 17:17

      A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.

    • Jeremiah 49:7

      Concerning Edom, this is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Is there no longer wisdom in Teman? Has counsel perished from the prudent? Has their wisdom decayed?

About Job

Job Hears of His Misfortunes, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
Job Hears of His Misfortunes, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
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This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Gregory the Dialogist, Morals on the Book of Job, Book VIII; 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.

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