Job 18

Job 18:1

3. Bildad’s Second Speech (Chap. 18)18:1-4 Bildad the Shuhite denounces Job for very strongly scorning the words of wisdom spoken by his friends and himself. One good thing that can be said about Bildad: he is briefer in his reproaches than his two fellow-comforters. Perhaps his awareness of this virtue of conciseness gave him boldness to suggest that Job should put an end to words. 18:5-21 He repeats the now-familiar refrain that the wicked person gets caught in the net of his own sins. Then he gives a dreadful list of the calamities that come upon a sinner’s house. Bildad was right in saying that men suffer for their sins, but he was wrong in giving this as an explanation of Job’s sufferings. Not all suffering is a direct result of sin in one’s life.