Bildad

Role: king; friend of Job · First appears: The Four Friends

Bildad was related to Job and was one of his friends; he was also related to Eliphaz and Zophar, and was a cousin of Zophar and Elihu. When Job’s friends learned of his misfortune, Bildad joined Eliphaz, Zophar, and Elihu in hastening to assist him. Later, Job offered a sacrifice for his friends, which God accepted and pardoned them.

Relationship record

Life events

• Job’s friends learned of his misfortune and hastened to assist him.(The Four Friends)
  • With: Eliphaz Zophar Elihu Job
  • “Thus the friends of Job learnt simultaneously of his misfortune, and they hastened to his assistance.”
• Job offered a sacrifice for his friends, and God accepted it and pardoned them.(Job Restored)
  • With: Job Eliphaz Zophar God
  • “The sacrifice offered by Job in behalf of his friends was accepted graciously by God”

The Four Friends

• with Job (The text establishes a kinship tie without specifying its type.) “The four friends were related to one another, and each one was related to Job.”
• with Eliphaz (The text establishes a kinship tie without specifying its type.) “The four friends were related to one another, and each one was related to Job.”
• cousins with Zophar “Bildad, Zophar, and Elihu were cousins, their fathers, Shuah, Naamat, and Barachel, were the sons of Buz, who was a brother of Job and a nephew of Abraham.”
• cousins with Elihu “Bildad, Zophar, and Elihu were cousins, their fathers, Shuah, Naamat, and Barachel, were the sons of Buz, who was a brother of Job and a nephew of Abraham.”
• friends with Job “The friends of Job lived in different places, at intervals of three hundred miles one from the other.”
• friends with Eliphaz “The four friends were related to one another, and each one was related to Job.”
• friends with Zophar “The four friends were related to one another, and each one was related to Job.”
• friends with Elihu “The four friends were related to one another, and each one was related to Job.”

Job Restored

• friends with Job “With his three friends he returned to the city, and the inhabitants made a festival in his honor and unto the glory of God.”
• friends with Eliphaz “Thou and thy friends Bildad and Zophar have committed a sin, for ye did not speak the truth concerning my servant Job.”
• friends with Zophar “Thou and thy friends Bildad and Zophar have committed a sin, for ye did not speak the truth concerning my servant Job.”

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Extracted from the original text of The Legends of the Jews, Volume II. Made with Rho MD.