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Job Chapter 18 verse 1 Holy Bible

ASV Job 18:1

Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,
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BBE Job 18:1

Then Bildad the Shuhite made answer and said,
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DARBY Job 18:1

And Bildad the Shuhite answered and said,
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KJV Job 18:1

Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,
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WBT Job 18:1

Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,
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WEB Job 18:1

Then Bildad the Shuhite answered,
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YLT Job 18:1

And Bildad the Shuhite answereth and saith: --
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Pulpit Commentary

Pulpit CommentaryVerses 1-21. - Bildad's second speech is no improvement upon his first (ch. 8.). He has evidently been exceedingly nettled by Job's contemptuous words concerning his "comforters" (Job 16:2, 11; Job 17:10); and aims at nothing but venting his anger, and terrifying Job by a series of denunciations and threats. Job has become to him "the wicked man" (vers. 5, 21), an embodiment of all that is evil, and one "that knoweth not God." No punishment is too severe for him. Verses 1, 2. - Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said, How long will it be ere ye make an end of words? (So Rosenmuller, Gesenius, Welte, Merx, Lee, and Canon Cook.) Others render, "How long will ye lay snares for words?" which is a possible translation, but does not give a very good sense. Bildad, a tolerably concise speaker himself (see Job 8:2-22; Job 25:2-6), is impatient at the length of Job's replies. He had already, in his former speech (Job 8:2), reproached Job with his prolixity; now he repeats the charge. The employment of the second person plural in this and the following verses is not very easily accounted for. Bildad can scarcely mean to blame his friend Eliphaz. Perhaps he regards Job as having supporters among the lookers-on, of whom there may have been several besides Elihu (Job 32:2). Mark; rather, consider; i.e. think a little, instead of talking. And afterwards we will speak. Then, calmly and without hurry, we will proceed to reply to what you have said.

Ellicott's Commentary

Ellicott's Commentary for English ReadersXVIII.(1) How long?--Bildad begins very much as Job himself had done (Job 16).