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Job 18:1–21 Like Eliphaz, Bildad expressed his frustration (vv. 2–4): Who is Job to maintain his position and criticize the words of his friends? The remainder of Bildad’s response is a description of the destiny of the wicked (vv. 5–21).
Job 18:5–6 Bildad is likely responding to Job with the repeated images of the light of the wicked (flame, lamp) going dark (put out, does not shine). Job ought to take the “darkness” as a warning.
Job 18:7–10 Bildad uses the vocabulary of a trap (net, snare, rope) to argue that what Job describes as God breaking him apart (see 16:7–14) is better described as Job suffering the consequences of his own sin.
Job 18:11–14 Firstborn of death and king of terrors personifies the process and finality of death.
Job 18:14–21 Bildad refers throughout these verses to the destruction of both the house and the household of the wicked (both of which Job has endured; 1:13–19) to assert that Job’s circumstances show he is one who knows not God (18:21).
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