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Good News Translation

Job 18:1

Job, can't people like you ever be quiet? If you stopped to listen, we could talk to you. <

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®
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Hebrew Names Version
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King James Version
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English Standard Version
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New Century Version
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New English Translation
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Amplified Bible
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New American Standard Bible
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World English Bible
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Geneva Bible (1587)
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Legacy Standard Bible
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Berean Standard Bible
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Contemporary English Version
Bildad's Second Speech Bildad from Shuah said:
Complete Jewish Bible
Bildad the Shuchi said,
Darby Translation
And Bildad the Shuhite answered and said,
Easy-to-Read Version
Then Bildad from Shuah answered:
George Lamsa Translation
THEN Bildad, the Shuhite, answered and said,
Lexham English Bible
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Literal Translation
And Bildad the Shuhite answered and said:
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
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American Standard Version
Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,
Bible in Basic English
Then Bildad the Shuhite made answer and said,
JPS Old Testament (1917)
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King James Version (1611)
Then answered Bildad the Shuhite and said,
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Then aunswered Bildad the Suhite, and saide:
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Then Baldad the Sauchite answered and said,
English Revised Version
Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Forsothe Baldach Suythes 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
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New Living Translation
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New Life Bible
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New Revised Standard
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J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
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Douay-Rheims Bible
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Revised Standard Version
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Young's Literal Translation
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New American Standard Bible (1995)
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Contextual Overview

1Job, can't people like you ever be quiet? If you stopped to listen, we could talk to you. <3 What makes you think we are as stupid as cattle? 4 You are only hurting yourself with your anger. Will the earth be deserted because you are angry? Will God move mountains to satisfy you?

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Bildad: Job 2:11, Job 8:1, Job 25:1, Job 42:7-9

Cross-References

Genesis 12:7
The Lord appeared to Abram and said to him, "This is the country that I am going to give to your descendants." Then Abram built an altar there to the Lord , who had appeared to him.
Genesis 15:1
After this, Abram had a vision and heard the Lord say to him, "Do not be afraid, Abram. I will shield you from danger and give you a great reward."
Genesis 17:22
When God finished speaking to Abraham, he left him.
Genesis 18:1
The Lord appeared to Abraham at the sacred trees of Mamre. As Abraham was sitting at the entrance of his tent during the hottest part of the day,
Genesis 18:3
he said, "Sirs, please do not pass by my home without stopping; I am here to serve you.
Genesis 26:2
The Lord had appeared to Isaac and had said, "Do not go to Egypt; stay in this land, where I tell you to stay.
Genesis 48:3
Jacob said to Joseph, "Almighty God appeared to me at Luz in the land of Canaan and blessed me.
Exodus 4:1
Then Moses answered the Lord , "But suppose the Israelites do not believe me and will not listen to what I say. What shall I do if they say that you did not appear to me?"
2 Chronicles 1:7
That night God appeared to Solomon and asked, "What would you like me to give you?"
Acts 7:2
Stephen answered, "Brothers and fathers, listen to me! Before our ancestor Abraham had gone to live in Haran, the God of glory appeared to him in Mesopotamia

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said. Who, next to Eliphaz, spoke before, and now in his turn attacks Job a second time, and more roughly and severely than before; now he gives him no advice or counsel, nor any instructions and exhortations for his good, nor suggests that it might be better times with him again, as he had done before; but only heaps up charges against him, and describes the miserable circumstances of a wicked man, as near to Job's as he could; thereby endeavouring to confirm his former position, that wicked men are punished of God, and to have this conclusion drawn from it, that Job must needs be a wicked man, since he was so greatly afflicted.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

CHAPTER XVIII

Bildad, in a speech of passionate invective, accuses Job of

impatience and impiety, 1-4;

shows the fearful end of the wicked and their posterity; and

apparently applies the whole to Job, whom he threatens with

the most ruinous end, 5-21.

NOTES ON CHAP. XVIII

Verse Job 18:1. Then answered Bildad — The following analysis of this speech, by Mr. Heath, is judicious: "Bildad, irritated to the last degree that Job should treat their advice with so much contempt, is no longer able to keep his passions within the bounds of decency. He proceeds to downright abuse; and finding little attention given by Job to his arguments, he tries to terrify him into a compliance. To that end he draws a yet more terrible picture of the final end of wicked men than any yet preceding, throwing in all the circumstances of Job's calamities, that he might plainly perceive the resemblance, and at the same time insinuating that he had much worse still to expect, unless he prevented it by a speedy change of behaviour. That it was the highest arrogance in him to suppose that he was of consequence enough to be the cause of altering the general rules of Providence, Job 18:4. And that it was much more expedient for the good of the whole, that he, by his example, should deter others from treading in the same path of wickedness and folly;" Job 18:5-7.


 
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