Job 8 (summary): Bildad

Now comes Job's second friend or comforter called Bildad and he poured on the agony too insisting with Job, as had Eliphaz, that all his suffering was a result of hidden sin. Bildad states bluntly that Job's children had received their penalty from a just God and Job's only way forward was to plead with God and change his ways to purity and uprightness. Bildad insinuates that Job had forgotten God and was trusting in fragile spiders' webs. For clearly God never rejects a blameless man, Bildad affirms, so clearly Job is declared guilty!