Bildad

Naturalism unlike realism adopts more a philosophical position and holds man responsible for his actions and negates divine interventions. Naturalism considers human beings to be determined by their heredity and environment. The individual is at the mercy of determining social and economic forces. Each human being is determined by heredity and environment and "subject to the social and economic forces in the family, the class, and the milieu into which that person is born" (Abrams 153).…

Three of his friends, Eliphaz, Bildad and Zophar, kept insisting that his punishment and suffering were the consequences of a sin or sins he committed. Namely, Zophar implies that Job deserves an even greater punishment to what he has done. We know for a fact that Job is innocent, and…

This worm figure is employed in the Bible to distinguish how small humans are compared to God (Dominguez). In the book of Job, Bildad expresses the purity of God compared to stars and humans to worms. “How then can man be in the right before God? How can he who is born of woman be pure? Behold, even the moon is not bright, and the stars are not pure in his eyes; how much less man…

Throughout many artistic works we see the good suffer, and in the Iliad by Homer and The Book of Job in the Bible, the suffering of the good is a prominent theme. These literary works are similar in the way they present the suffering of the good, but they are also very different in how the good cope with their troubles. The Iliad uses divine intervention and fate to exemplify how the good suffer, whereas The Book of Job uses divine influence and God’s will to illustrate suffering. Similarly,…

The question - Why do I suffer? – functions as one of the foremost features of the human condition. As individuals, we habitually question the purpose of our own suffering and seek to rationalize it. Though universal and inevitable, this suffering may often appear unmerited or unjust. Throughout time, many have claimed a monopoly on this answer. In fact, one would be hard pressed to find a religion or philosophy that neither addresses nor justifies human suffering. Literature as well often…

Your words are a blustering wind. Does God pervert justice? Does the Almighty pervert what is right?” lord Bildad began his dialogue. “When your children sinned against him, he gave them over to the penalty of their sin…. but if you will seek God earnestly and plead with the Almighty, if you are pure and upright, even now he will rouse himself on your behalf…

MacLeish’s J.B. was a 20th century free verse play, which was adapted from the biblical story of Job that happened more than two thousand years ago. Two vendors acted as the God and Satan on the circus platform to watch how J.B., a Job-like upright man, would respond to the similar sufferings that Job experienced. In the Bible, when Job lost all the children and everything he had, “he did not sin or charge God with wrong doing”; when his whole body was inflicted loathsome sores, and his wife…

In this psalm, David praises God, but he still cries out to God for deliverance. These concepts confuse many people. In everyday life, people are confused why Christians can praise God through trials. David has probably been furthering this confusion through this psalm. However, I believe that David’s praise of God illustrates that God is worth following and knowing even if our worldly circumstances do not change. In fact, following God can sometimes cause worldly circumstances to become worse,…

Out of Job’s namesake book in the Old Testament comes a familiar story that is known for the grueling trials of one of God’s most devout servants. Job appears to be spared from no form of suffering; his children are slaughtered, his fortune dissipates, and his community ostracizes him. The man who earned his fame from pious actions and abiding by God’s word seems to have been paradoxically abandoned by his maker, initializing a deep agitation in Job’s previously secure philosophy. Although these…