Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,
Ver. 1. Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said] Bildad (who was of the posterity of Shuah, Abraham's son by Keturah, Gen 24:1-2) interrupteth Job, and endeavours to maintain what Eliphaz had spoken; nevertheless, it appeareth by this chapter, Job 8:5,6; Job 8:20,21, that his opinion was not so rigid as that of Eliphaz: for he grants that a righteous man may be afflicted, but yet so, that if God restore him not speedily, he may be censured, cast, and condemned as unrighteous. He passeth (as they do all) some hard censures upon Job; and is paid in his own coin by him; who saith that he was, according to his name, a wicked kinsman; for בל is naught, and רוד an uncle. With what judgment men judge they shall be judged. Matthew 7:2 .