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Job 8:1

Then Bildad the Shuhite spoke up and said:

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:
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,
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 Then Bildad the Shuhite spoke up and said: 2 "How long will you speak these things, seeing that the words of your mouth are like a great wind? 3 Does God pervert justice? Or does the Almighty pervert what is right? 4 If your children sinned against him, he gave them over to the penalty of their sin. 5 But if you will look to God, and make your supplication to the Almighty, 6 if you become pure and upright, even now he will rouse himself for you, and will restore your righteous abode. 7 Your beginning will seem so small, since your future will flourish.

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 sent out a raven; it kept flying back and forth until the waters had dried up on the earth.
Genesis 8:9
The dove could not find a resting place for its feet because water still covered the surface of the entire earth, and so it returned to Noah in the ark. He stretched out his hand, took the dove, and brought it back into the ark.
Genesis 8:20
Noah built an altar to the Lord . He then took some of every kind of clean animal and clean bird and offered burnt offerings on the altar.
Genesis 8:22
"While the earth continues to exist, planting time and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, and day and night will not cease."
Genesis 19:29
So when God destroyed the cities of the region, God honored Abraham's request. He removed Lot from the midst of the destruction when he destroyed the cities Lot had lived in.
Genesis 30:22
Then God took note of Rachel. He paid attention to her and enabled her to become pregnant.
Exodus 2:24
God heard their groaning, God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob,
Exodus 14:21
Moses stretched out his hand toward the sea, and the Lord drove the sea apart by a strong east wind all that night, and he made the sea into dry land, and the water was divided.
Numbers 22:32
The angel of the Lord said to him, "Why have you beaten your donkey these three times? Look, I came out to oppose you because what you are doing is perverse before me.
1 Samuel 1:19
They got up early the next morning and after worshiping the Lord , they returned to their home at Ramah. Elkanah had marital relations with his wife Hannah, and the Lord 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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