“Bildad Speaks of the Wicked”

‘Job Chapter 18
Then Bildad the Shuhite replied: “When will you end these speeches? Be sensible, and then we can talk. Why are we regarded as cattle and considered stupid in your sight? You who tear yourself to pieces in your anger, is the earth to be abandoned for your sake? Or must the rocks be moved from their place? “The lamp of a wicked man is snuffed out; the flame of his fire stops burning. The light in his tent becomes dark; the lamp beside him goes out. The vigor of his step is weakened; his own schemes throw him down. His feet thrust him into a net; he wanders into its mesh. A trap seizes him by the heel; a snare holds him fast. A noose is hidden for him on the ground; a trap lies in his path. Terrors startle him on every side and dog his every step. Calamity is hungry for him; disaster is ready for him when he falls. It eats away parts of his skin; death’s firstborn devours his limbs. He is torn from the security of his tent and marched off to the king of terrors. Fire resides in his tent; burning sulfur is scattered over his dwelling. His roots dry up below and his branches wither above. The memory of him perishes from the earth; he has no name in the land. He is driven from light into the realm of darkness and is banished from the world. He has no offspring or descendants among his people, no survivor where once he lived. People of the west are appalled at his fate; those of the east are seized with horror. Surely such is the dwelling of an evil man; such is the place of one who does not know God.”

1. What was Bildad angry about?
2. What did “hunt”, in verse 2, mean?
3. What does the author believe these friends have been to Job?
4. What was Bildad saying to Job, in a sense?
5. What did Job have every right to call his friends?
6. Why do you suppose God allowed them to attack Job?
7. What did Bildad accuse Job of doing in verse 4?
8. The light of the wicked shall be _ .
9. Why did Bildad speak to Job of all the things that would come to a wicked man?
10. Who was the darkness of the Light extended to in verse 6?
11. Bildad said that Job _ all of this upon himself by his sin.
12. What is the “gin” in verse 9?
13. What was verse 9 speaking of?
14. What are the two types of traps in verse 10?
15. Verse 11 was saying that Job had no _ of _.
16. What happens to a person when he does without food?
17. They thought Job’s illness would automatically lead to _.
18. Why did Bildad wish the worst for Job?
19. What was the tabernacle, in verse 14, speaking of?
20. What did Bildad say would rain down on Job’s house?
21. In verse 16, the roots were whom?
22. In the same verse, who was the branch?
23. Bildad was predicting that Job would not be __.
24. What is the actual truth about that?
25. Bildad believed that Job was chief among _.