Job 18:02 Mighty Words - When will you put an end to mighty words? 2025-0224

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Welcome to the InAllWisdom Podcast,

A Daily Podcast dedicated to wisdom for life.

I am Jim Donnelly, your host.

I have completed a commentary on

The book of Ecclesiastes, all 222 verses.

Ecclesiastes Amplified: A Collection of Wise Words 

We have set the publication date for 2025.

In the meantime, I am working on the book of Job, 

all forty-two chapters, all one thousand and seventy verses.

My book title prompts a different approach: 

Title: Job Is A True Story – Spoken By Yahweh, Written By Solomon 

With this subtitle:

In order for you “To know wisdom and discipline, to understand the sayings of understanding.” 

Please stay tuned to today’s insightful Podcast.

For sure you will learn something new about the book of Job!

The title of today’s Podcast is: “When Will You Put an End to Your Mighty Words” 

Before we examine Bildad’s challenge; allow me to read Job chapter eighteen. 

It is twenty-one verses long. 

Each time I deliver a Podcast, I read the related chapter of Job. 

This helps readers who may be reading Job for the first time. Or someone who is reading through the book for the umpteenth time, and still tripping all over the place, because Job just happens to be one of the most difficult books in the entire Bible.    

Also, a different translation may help readers who already know many things in the book of Job. 

So, this is why I use a different translation each month. 

To help us all hear and better understand, the longest story in the entire Bible. Which just happens to be one of the most important stories in God’s Word. 

A story intended to bring all readers to a knowledge of wisdom and discipline; and to an understanding of the sayings of understanding.  

Today I read from the Legacy Standard Bible. (See endnote on this new English translation). 

The Book of JOB

CHAPTER 18

                    1                  Then Bildad the Shuhite answered and said, 

                    2                  “How long until you put an end to your words? 

Show understanding and then we can talk. 

                    3                  “Why are we regarded as beasts, 

As dense in your eyes? 

                    4                  “O you who tear yourself in your anger—

For your sake is the earth to be forsaken, 

Or the rock to be moved from its place? 

                    5                  “Indeed, the light of the wicked goes out, 

And the flame of his fire gives no light. 

                    6                  “The light in his tent is darkened, 

And his lamp goes out above him. 

                    7                  “His vigorous stride is shortened, 

And his own counsel brings him down. 

                    8                  “For he is thrown into the net by his own feet, 

And he steps on the netting. 

                    9                  “A snare seizes him by the heel, 

And a device snaps shut on him. 

                    10                “A rope for him is hidden in the ground, 

And a trap for him on the path. 

                    11                “All around terrors frighten him, 

And harass him at every step. 

                    12                “His vigor is famished, 

And disaster is ready at his side. 

                    13                “The firstborn of death eats parts of his skin; 

It eats parts of him. 

                    14                “He is torn from the security of his tent, 

And they march him in step before the king of terrors. 

                    15                “There dwells in his tent nothing of his; 

Brimstone is scattered on his abode. 

                    16                “His roots are dried below, 

And his branch is cut off above. 

                    17                “Memory of him perishes from the earth, 

And he has no name abroad. 

                    18                “He is driven from light into darkness, 

And chased from the inhabited world. 

                    19                “He has neither offspring nor posterity among his people, 

Nor any survivor where he sojourned. 

                    20                “Those in the west are appalled at his fate, 

And those in the east are seized with horror. 

                    21                “Surely such are the dwellings of the unjust, 

And this is the place of him who does not know God.” 

Legacy Standard Bible (Job 18). (2022). Three Sixteen Publishing.

Today’s Podcast is titled:

“When Will You Put an End to Your Mighty Words”

Job 18:2 “How long until you put an end to your words? Show understanding and then we can talk.” (Job 18:2, LSB). 

Bildad asked a similar question in chapter 8: “How long will you say these things, 

And the words of your mouth be a mighty wind?” Job 8:2, LSB.

So, I think it is fair to apply mighty here in chapter 18, and translate this way: “How long until you put an end to your mighty words?”

“Mighty” occurs eight times in Job:  

1. Job 8:2 “How long will you say these things, And the words of your mouth be a mighty wind?”

2. Job 15:10 “Both the gray-haired and the aged are among us, mightier than your father.” [AT].

3. Job 31:25 “If I have been glad because my wealth was great, and because my hand had found   might.” (AT)

4. Job 34:17 “Shall one who hates justice rule? And will you condemn the righteous mighty One?”

5. Job 34:24 “He breaks in pieces mighty men without searching anything out And sets others in their place.”

6-7. Job 36:5 “Behold, God is mighty but does not reject; He is mighty in the power of His heart.”

8. Job 36:31 “For by these He judges peoples; He gives food in might.” (AT).

 It seems that “mighty” refers to God; and Bildad knew that. 

Perhaps that is why he added these words when he first spoke: “How long will you say these things, And the words of your mouth be a mighty wind? Does God [El] pervert justice? Or does the Almighty [Shaddai] pervert what is right? (Job 8:3, LSB). 

One scholar said this when describing the word “mighty”: “Only God is the source of true might” see endnote 1. 

So, if Bildad is being used by “The accuser” to confront Yahweh’s words of power and might, then what is that all about? 

I will continue this podcast on Job 18:1-6 soon. 

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Until he COMES ON THE CLOUDS OF THE SKY with power and great glory, I give this blessing that was given to Israel: “… Yahweh bless you, and keep you; Yahweh make His face shine on you, And be gracious to you; Yahweh lift up His face on you, And give you peace… “ (Numbers 6:22-27, LSB).  

Endnotes:

1.      “Only God is the source of true might (Job 36:5). In his hand is abundance of power (Isa 17:12), justice (Job 34:17), and provision (Job 36:31). כַבִּיר (kabbîr). Many, mighty, much, strong, most. Nine occurrences, six of which are in Job. Commonly used adjectivally stressing the greatness of the noun modified.”Oswalt, J. N. (1999). . In R. L. Harris, G. L. Archer Jr., & B. K. Waltke (Eds.), Theological Wordbook of the Old Testament (electronic ed., p. 429). Moody Press.