Job responds by affirming that his suffering was causing his rash desire to die, Eliphaz’s response has disappointed him, and by asking for forgiveness if he sinned (6:1-7:21). Job referees to God as a watcher over man. His feeling was that God was an enemy of his. He sensed that God was watching him squirm in his misery. God does watch over us, but with. But God does it with love, with compassion and for our wellbeing. Chapter 8 starts Bildad the Shuhite’s reply. Bildad begins by provoking Job to a new and spirited self-defense (Clifford 79). Here Bildad seems upset over Job’s claim of innocence while Questioning God’s justice. I think that the basis of Bildad argument is right, but his idea of justice is not. His argument was that
