But Job answered and said,
Ver. 1. But Job answered and said] Bildad had vexed him with his impertinence and superfluous discourses of God's attributes, as if Job had denied them or doubted of them, which was far from him, witness this chapter. He therefore rippleth up Bildad with a continued smart irony in the three next following verses, letting loose the reins to his justly conceived grief and indignation, and invading his adversary with these sharp questions by way of wonderment.