Bildad

[ bil-dad ]

noun

1. (in the Bible) a friend of Job.

Example Sentences

The first chapter I read aloud, Chapter 16, in which Ishmael boards the Pequod to sign on for his fateful voyage, felt like a vaudeville routine starring Peleg and Bildad, the ship’s owners.

From Washington Post

Job’s extraordinarily annoying three friends— Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite and Zopjhar the Naamathite—are all intent upon proving to Job that, although he protests his innocence, the calamities that befall him must have happened because, somewhere, lurking behind his innocent exterior, there is an awful secret.

From Wall Street Journal

Eliphaz, Bildad, and Zophar were the friends of Job; and he told them rather uncivilly, I think, that they were miserable comforters.

From Project Gutenberg

Nothing can be better than the description of the owners of the vessel, Captain Peleg and Captain Bildad, whose acquaintance we make before the commencement of the voyage.

From Project Gutenberg

Nevertheless, in spite of Bildad's lengthy rebuke, Job continues to pour out his complaint until Zophar can stand it no longer.

From Project Gutenberg