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II. THE DIALOGUE CONCERNING THE BASIS OF THE DIVINE-HUMAN RELATIONSHIP 3:1--42:6 >
C. The Second Cycle of Speeches between Job and His Three Friends chs. 15-21 >
3. Bildad's second speech ch. 18 >
Bildad's criticism of Job 18:1-4
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Obviously Bildad was impatient because Job refused to change his mind or admit great guilt (vv. 1-2). Job had claimed that God was tearing him as a beast tears its prey (16:9), but Bildad said Job was tearing himself (v. 4a). We can see his disgust with what he regarded as Job's pride in his statement that Job should not expect God to do anything particularly great on Job's account (v. 4b-c).
"A speaker who has run out of ideas can always resort to satire. No pastor mocks a sufferer by throwing his own words back at him."83
