Bildad

Gender: Male

Years: -1520 - -1520

Dictionary Text: 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. He took part in each of the three controversies into which Job’s friends entered with him;;, 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.

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Verses

• Job 8:1: Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,
• Job 42:9: So Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite went, and did according as the LORD commanded them: the LORD also accepted Job.
• Job 25:1: Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,
• Job 18:1: Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,
• Job 2:11: 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.