“Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,”
Then Bildad the Shuhite answered and said:" Bildad delivers his second speech, responding to Job's expressions of despair and challenge. Where Eliphaz took a high moral tone, Bildad will focus on vivid imagery of the wicked's fate. The formal opening indicates continuation of the friends' determination to convince Job through repetition and elaboration.
Church Fathers on Job 18:1
In a former part of this work we have handled the point, that Almighty God, in order to amend the hearts of those under the law, brought forward the life of blessed Job for a testimony, who knew not the law and yet kept it, who observed the precepts of life, which he had not received in writing. This man’s conduct is first extolled by God’s bearing witness to it, and is afterwards suffered to be put to the proof by the devil’s plotting against it, that he might prove by the…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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