Job 25

Bildad didn’t say that to praise God. He said it to destroy everything Job claimed. Job said he was a righteous person who followed God’s spoken laws, probably the 10 Commandments (Job 23:12; Exodus 20:1-17). Job said he didn’t deserve any of the tragedies that destroyed his family, leaving him with what seems like nothing more than a wife who told him to cuss God and die (Job 2:9).

Clearly, Bildad’s goal was something other than consolation, comfort, and warm fuzzies. He was using all his words, metaphors, and guilt chants to convince Job that it was his fault his kids died in a windstorm and his livestock and herders were lost to raiders and a lightning fire.