An exposition with practical observations continued upon the eighth, ninth and tenth chapters of…An exposition with practicall observations continued upon the eighth, ninth and tenth chapters of…

But while Job endeavours to clear himself in the opinion, or from the imputations of one of his friends, he runs into a further arrear of prejudices with a second: Some of those arguments which he had framed to pay his debt to Eliphaz, and save his own integrity, being again charged upon his account, by his friend Bildad the Shuhite; who presents himself (a duty very commendable) as an Advocate for God; and he conceived there was but need he should. Job in his reply having (in his sense) wronged the justice of God, he takes himself obliged to stand up and clear it, to show Job his supposed sin, and provoke him to repentance, both by threatenings of further wrath, and promises of speedy mercy. Thus in general.

But while Job endeavours to clear himself in the opinion, or from the imputations of one of his friends, he runnes into a further arrere of prejudices with a second: Some of those arguments which he had framed to pay his debt to Eliphaz, and save his own integrity, being again charged upon his account, by his friend Bildad the Shuhite; who presents himself (a duty very commendable) as an Advocate for God; and he conceived there was but need he should. Job in his reply having (in his sense) wronged the justice of God, he takes himself obliged to stand up and clear it, to shew Job his supposed sinne, and provoke him to repentance, both by threatnings of further wrath, and promises of speedy mercy. Thus in generall.

More distinctly, there are four parts of Bildad's speech.

More distinctly, there are four parts of Bildads speech.

First, A confutation of Jobs reply to Eliphaz; and he gives it us shadowed by an elegant similitude in the second verse, How long wilt thou speak these things? and how long shall the words of thy mouth be like the strong wind? There's a censure upon all that he had spoken.