Bildad
One of Job's three friends, the Shuhite, who came with the others to console him and sat seven days in silence before any of them spoke. His speeches are the shortest and the bluntest: he appeals to the wisdom of former generations, insists that God does not pervert justice, and suggests that Job's children died because they sinned. Like the other two, he is finally told that he has not spoken rightly of God, as Job has, and must bring an offering and ask Job to pray for him.
What we know — and how we know it
Where in scripture
JobNow when Job’s three friends heard of all this evil that had come on him, they each came from his own place: Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite; and they made an appointment together to come to sympathize with him and to comfort him.
Job 2:11
Then Bildad the Shuhite answered,
Job 8:1 — Bildad the Shuhite answers
Then Bildad the Shuhite answered,
Job 18:1
Then Bildad the Shuhite answered,
Job 25:1
So Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite went, and did what Yahweh commanded them, and Yahweh accepted Job.
Job 42:9
Scripture quotations are from the World English Bible, a public-domain translation.
