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Complete Jewish Bible

Job 8:1

Bildad the Shuchi spoke next:

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Bildad;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Bildad;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Greatness of God;   Hypocrisy;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Bildad;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Job, the Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Shuah;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Bildad ;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Bildad;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Shuhite;   Kitto Biblical Cyclopedia - Bildad;  

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:
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,
Bible in Basic English
Then Bildad the Shuhite made answer 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 Bildad the Shuchi spoke next: 2 "How long will you go on talking like this? What you are saying is raging wind! 3 Does God distort judgment? Does Shaddai pervert justice? 4 If your children sinned against him, he left them to be victims of their own offense. 5 "If you will earnestly seek God and plead for Shaddai's favor, 6 if you are pure and upright; then he will rouse himself for you and fulfill your needs. 7 Then, although your beginnings were small, your future will be very great indeed.

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
and he sent out a raven, which flew back and forth until the water had dried up from the earth.
Genesis 8:9
But the dove found no place for her feet to rest, so she returned to him in the ark, because the water still covered the whole earth. He put out his hand, took her and brought her in to him in the ark.
Genesis 8:20
Noach built an altar to Adonai . Then he took from every clean animal and every clean bird, and he offered burnt offerings on the altar.
Genesis 8:22
So long as the earth exists, sowing time and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, and day and night will not cease."
Genesis 19:29
But when God destroyed the cities of the plain, he remembered Avraham and sent Lot out, away from the destruction, when he overthrew the cities in which Lot lived.
Genesis 30:22
Then God took note of Rachel, heeded her prayer and made her fertile.
Exodus 2:24
God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Avraham, Yitz'chak and Ya‘akov.
Exodus 14:21
Moshe reached his hand out over the sea, and Adonai caused the sea to go back before a strong east wind all night. He made the sea become dry land, and its water was divided in two.
Numbers 22:32
The angel of Adonai said to him, "Why did you hit your donkey three times like that? I have come out here to bar your way, because you are rushing to oppose me.
1 Samuel 1:19
They got up early in the morning and worshipped before Adonai , then returned and came to their house in Ramah. Elkanah had sexual relations with Hannah his wife, and Adonai remembered her.

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.


 
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