Job 8:1

Bible in Basic English

Then Bildad the Shuhite made answer and said,

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Then Bildad the Shuhite replied:

Hebrew Names Version
Then Bildad the Shuchite answered,

King James Version
Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,

English Standard Version
Then Bildad the Shuhite answered and said:

New Century Version
Then Bildad the Shuhite answered:

New English Translation
Then Bildad the Shuhite spoke up and said:

Amplified Bible
Then Bildad the Shuhite answered and said,

New American Standard Bible
Then Bildad the Shuhite responded,

World English Bible
Then Bildad the Shuhite answered,

Geneva Bible (1587)
Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and saide,

Legacy Standard Bible
Then Bildad the Shuhite answered and said,

Berean Standard Bible
Then Bildad the Shuhite replied:

Contemporary English Version
Bildad's First Speech Bildad from Shuah said:

Complete Jewish Bible
Bildad the Shuchi spoke next:

Darby Translation
And Bildad the Shuhite answered and said,

Easy-to-Read Version
Then Bildad from Shuah answered:

George Lamsa Translation
THEN answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,

Good News Translation
Are you finally through with your windy speech? <

Lexham English Bible
Then Bildad the Shuhite answered and said,

Literal Translation
And Bildad the Shuhite answered, saying:

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Then answered Baldad the Suhite, and sayde:

American Standard Version
Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Then aunswered Bildad the Suhite, & said:

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said:

King James Version (1611)
Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Then Baldad the Sauchite answered, and said,

English Revised Version
Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Sotheli Baldath Suytes answeride, and seide,

Update Bible Version
Then Bildad the Shuhite answered and said,

Webster's Bible Translation
Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,

New King James Version
Then Bildad the Shuhite answered and said:

New Living Translation
Then Bildad the Shuhite replied to Job:

New Life Bible
Then Bildad the Shuhite answered,

New Revised Standard
Then Bildad the Shuhite answered:

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Then responded Bildad the Shuhite, and said: -

Douay-Rheims Bible
Then Baldad, the Suhite, answered, and said:

Revised Standard Version
Then Bildad the Shuhite answered:

Young's Literal Translation
And Bildad the Shuhite answereth and saith: --

New American Standard Bible (1995)
Then Bildad the Shuhite answered,

Contextual Overview

¹ Then Bildad the Shuhite made answer and said, ² How long will you say these things, and how long will the words of your mouth be like a strong wind? ³ Does God give wrong decisions? or is the Ruler of all not upright in his judging? ⁴ If your children have done evil against him, then their punishment is from his hand. ⁵ If you will make search for God with care, and put your request before the Ruler of all; ⁶ If you are clean and upright; then he will certainly be moved to take up your cause, and will make clear your righteousness by building up your house again. ⁷ And though your start was small, your end will be very great.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Bildad: Job 2:11

Reciprocal: Job 4:1 - answered Job 18:1 - Bildad Job 42:7 - Eliphaz

Cross-References

Genesis 8:7
Noah sent out a raven, which went this way and that till the waters were gone from the earth.

Genesis 8:9
But the dove saw no resting-place for her foot, and came back to the ark, for the waters were still over all the earth; and he put out his hand, and took her into the ark.

Genesis 8:20
And Noah made an altar to the Lord, and from every clean beast and bird he made burned offerings on the altar.

Genesis 8:22
While the earth goes on, seed time and the getting in of the grain, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, will not come to an end.

Genesis 19:29
So it came about that when God sent destruction on the towns of the lowland, he kept his word to Abraham, and sent Lot safely away when he put an end to the towns where he was living.

Genesis 30:22
Then God gave thought to Rachel, and hearing her prayer he made her fertile.

Exodus 2:24
And at the sound of their weeping the agreement which God had made with Abraham and Isaac and Jacob came to his mind.

Exodus 14:21
And when Moses' hand was stretched out over the sea, the Lord with a strong east wind made the sea go back all night, and the waters were parted in two and the sea became dry land.

Numbers 22:32
And the angel of the Lord said to him, Why have you given your ass blows these three times? See, I have come out against you to keep you back, because your purpose is not pleasing to me.

1 Samuel 1:19
And early in the morning they got up, and after worshipping before the Lord they went back to Ramah, to their house: and Elkanah had connection with his wife; and the Lord kept her in mind.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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. Some have observed, that Job's friends were like the messengers that brought him the tidings of his losses, before one had done speaking another came; and so as soon as one of his friends had delivered his discourse, and before Job could well finish his reply, up starts another to charge him afresh, as here Bildad did, who said as follows.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Then answered Bildad the Shuhite - ; see the notes at Job 2:11.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

CHAPTER VIII

Bildad answers, and reproves Job for his justifying himself,

1, 2.

Shows that God is just, and never punishes but for iniquity;

and intimates that it was on account of their sins that his

children were cut off, 3, 4.

States that, if Job would humble himself to the Almighty,

provided he were innocent, his captivity would soon be turned,

and his latter end be abundantly prosperous, 5-7.

Appeals to the ancients for the truth of what he says; and

draws examples from the vegetable world, to show how soon the

wicked may be cut off, and the hope of the hypocrite perish,

8-19.

Asserts that God never did cast of a perfect man nor help the

wicked; and that, if Job be innocent, his end shall be crowned

with prosperity, 20-22.

NOTES ON CHAP. VIII

Verse Job 8:1. 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 Genesis 25:1-2; Genesis 25:6.