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J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible

Job 18:1

Then responded Bildad the Shuhite, 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:
New English Translation
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 said,
Legacy Standard Bible
Then Bildad the Shuhite answered and said,
Berean Standard Bible
Then Bildad the Shuhite replied:
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,
Good News Translation
Job, can't people like you ever be quiet? If you stopped to listen, we could talk to you. <
Lexham English Bible
Then Bildad the Shuhite answered and said,
Literal Translation
And Bildad the Shuhite answered and said:
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,
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said:
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
Then Bildad the Shuhite answered and said:
New Living Translation
Then Bildad the Shuhite replied:
New Life Bible
Then Bildad the Shuhite answered,
New Revised Standard
Then Bildad the Shuhite answered:
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 responded,

Contextual Overview

1 Then responded Bildad the Shuhite, and said: - 2 How long will ye make a perversion of words? Ye should understand, and, afterwards, we could speak. 3 Wherefore are we accounted like beasts? or appear stupid, in thine eyes? 4 One tearing in pieces his own soul in his anger, - For thy sake, shall the earth be forsaken? or the rock be moved out of its place?

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
And Yahweh appeared unto Abram, and said: To thy seed, will I give this land, - And he built there an altar, unto Yahweh who appeared unto him.
Genesis 15:1
After these things, came the word of Yahweh unto Abram, in a vision saying, - Do not fear Abram, am a shield to thee, thine exceeding great reward.
Genesis 17:22
And he left off speaking with him, - and God went up from Abraham.
Genesis 18:1
And Yahweh appeared unto him among the oaks of Mamre, - as, he, was sitting at the opening of the tent in the heat of the day.
Genesis 18:3
and said, - O My Lord! if, I pray thee, I have found favour in thine eyes, do not I pray thee pass on from thy servant.
Genesis 26:2
and Yahweh appeared unto him, and said, do not go down towards Egypt, - Make thy habitation in the land, which I may name unto thee:
Genesis 48:3
Then said Jacob unto Joseph, GOD Almighty, appeared unto me in Luz in the land of Canaan, - and blessed me;
Exodus 4:1
Then responded Moses, and said, And lo! they will not believe me, neither hearken to my voice, - for they will say, Yahweh, hath not appeared unto thee.
2 Chronicles 1:7
During that night, God appeared unto Solomon, - and said unto him, Ask what I shall give thee.
Acts 7:2
And, he, said - Brethren and fathers, hearken! The God of Glory, appeared unto our father Abraham, while he was in Mesopotamia, before he dwelt in Haran, -

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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