Job 18:1

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Bildad’s Second Speech Then Bildad the Shuhite answered:

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 2:11 : 11 The Visit of Job’s Friends When Job’s three friends heard about all this calamity that had happened to him, each of them came from his own country– Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite. They met together to come to show sympathy for him and to console him.
  • Job 8:1 : 1 Bildad’s First Speech to Job Then Bildad the Shuhite spoke up and said:
  • Job 25:1 : 1 Bildad’s Third Speech Then Bildad the Shuhite answered:
  • Job 42:7-9 : 7 After the LORD had spoken these things to Job, he said to Eliphaz the Temanite,“My anger is stirred up against you and your two friends, because you have not spoken about me what is right, as my servant Job has. 8 So now take seven bulls and seven rams and go to my servant Job and offer a burnt offering for yourselves. And my servant Job will intercede for you, and I will respect him, so that I do not deal with you according to your folly, because you have not spoken about me what is right, as my servant Job has.” 9 So they went, Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite, and did just as the LORD had told them; and the LORD had respect for Job.

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    2“How long will you torment me and crush me with your words?

  • Job 16:1-3
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    2“I have heard many things like these before. What miserable comforters are you all!

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  • Job 20:1-2
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    1Zophar’s First Speech to Job Then Zophar the Naamathite spoke up and said:

    2“Should not this abundance of words be answered, or should this talkative man be vindicated?

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  • 1Job’s Reply to Zophar Then Job answered:

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    2“If someone should attempt a word with you, will you be impatient? But who can refrain from speaking?

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    2“Will the one who contends with the Almighty correct him? Let the person who accuses God give him an answer!”

    3Then Job answered the LORD:

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    2“Be patient with me a little longer and I will instruct you, for I still have words to speak on God’s behalf.

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  • 7After the LORD had spoken these things to Job, he said to Eliphaz the Temanite,“My anger is stirred up against you and your two friends, because you have not spoken about me what is right, as my servant Job has.

  • 2Then Elihu son of Barakel the Buzite, of the family of Ram, became very angry. He was angry with Job for justifying himself rather than God.

  • 5Reply to me, if you can; set your arguments in order before me and take your stand!

  • 36But Job will be tested to the end, because his answers are like those of wicked men.

  • 5I would know with what words he would answer me, and understand what he would say to me.