Job 8:1

Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,

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Interpretation

Job spake much to the purpose; but Bildad, like an eager, angry disputant, turns it all off with this, How long wilt you speak these things? Men's meaning is not taken aright, and then they are rebuked, as if they were evil-doers.

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This thought runs through Job 8:1-3.

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Glossary

Bildad Person: Son of contention, one of Job’s friends. He is called “the Shuhite,” probably as belonging to Shuah, a district in Arabia, in which Shuah, the sixth son of Abraham by Keturah, settled ( Gen. 25:2 ).