Job 8:1 (BSB)
Then Bildad the Shuhite replied:
Commentary on Job 8:1
- Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Job 8:1-7: Here, I. Bildad reproves Job for what he had said (Job 8:2), checks his passion, but perhaps (as is too common) with greater passion. We thought Job spoke a great deal of good sense and much to the purpose, and that he had reason and right on his side; but Bildad, like an eager angry disputant, turns it all off with this, How long wilt thou speak these things?
- John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Job 8:1: Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said. This was the second of Job's friends that came to visit him, Job 2:11; and is mentioned next to Eliphaz there, and takes his turn in this controversy in the same side; which no doubt was agreed upon among themselves, as well as the part each should bear, and the general sentiment they should pursue, which was the same in them all.
- Geneva Bible Notes (Reformed), Geneva Bible Study Notes on Job 8:1: And why dost thou not pardon my transgression, and take away mine iniquity? for now shall I sleep in the dust; and thou shalt seek me in the morning, but I [shall] not [be]. (o) That is, I will be dead.
- Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on Job 8:1-4: Job 8:1-4 1 Then began Bildad the Shuhite, and said: 2 How long wilt thou utter such things, And the words of thy mouth are a boisterous wind? 3 Will God reverse what is right, Or the Almighty reverse what is just? 4 When thy children sinned against Him, He gave them over to the hand of their wickedness.