Job Ep. 50: The Wicked Man

In Job 18:5–21, Bildad delivers seventeen verses on the fate of the wicked — the lamp snuffed out, traps at every turn, skin devoured, fire on the dwelling, no name, no children, no memory. He never says Job's name. He closes with a verdict: this is the place of one who does not know God. The portrait fits Job's life almost exactly. And Bildad is wrong.