“Shall not they teach thee, and tell thee, and utter words out of their heart?”
Bildad asserts that the fathers will teach Job and that they will speak words from their heart, suggesting that their accumulated wisdom offers guidance for present suffering. The appeal to the fathers' teaching positions them as sources of understanding and compassion. Yet the wisdom of the fathers seems to be reducible to the retributive theology that Bildad has already articulated.
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