Bildad the Shuhite was one of three friends who came to Job when everything had been taken from him. They “had made an appointment together to come to mourn with him and to comfort him” (Job 2:11). Bildad then speaks three times, in chapters 8, 18 and 25, each time answering Job with the question of whether God can be unjust. He means well, but his tidy answers fit poorly with Job’s grief. Read Job 8 to hear how kindly intended words can still miss the person who is hurting.
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Now when Job's three friends heard of all this evil that was come upon him, they came every one from his own place; Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite: for they had made an appointment together to come to mourn with him and to comfort him.
Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,
Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,
Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,
Matthew George Easton, 1897
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). He took part in each of the three controversies into which Job’s friends entered with him (Job 8:1; 18:1; 25:1), and delivered three speeches, very severe and stern in their tone, although less violent than those of Zophar, but more so than those of Eliphaz.
William Smith, 1884
(son of contention), the second of Job’s three friends. He is called "the Shuhite," which implies both his family and nation. (Job 2:11) (B.C. about 2000.)