Job responds to Bildad. What stands out in Job’s response is his despair that there can be no fair trial between him and God, since the Lord is so exalted and transcendent above him. He despairs that there is no mediator. Martyn Owens – Job 9
After Eliphaz’s and Job’s exchange, Bildad steps into the fray. He talks of a God of stern justice that allows for no mercy. Bildad’s theology is one that has no place for suffering endured by one who does not deserve it, and thus has no place for redemptive suffering, no place for the cross. Martyn…