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Hebrew paragraph divisions
For the series of speeches from Job 3:2-28:10, the Hebrew paragraph divisions for each man’s speech are like the divisions in the Psalms that we studied in 2014. There is an understood {s} division at the end of each numbered line, with an {n} marking where a new line begins within a numbered line. There is one {n} division in the speeches from Job 8:1-9:35:
9:24a The earth is given into the hand of the wicked. He covers the faces of its judges. {n}
Job 8:1-22, Bildad’s speech
Bildad next tries to encourage Job, and his speech has some merit. He doesn’t realize it, but he prophesies Job’s latter end, when he says,
“Though your beginning was small, yet your latter end would increase abundantly,” Job 8:7
This reveals something about wisdom: properly applied wisdom can function prophetically, because truth is universal; it applies across times and cultures and circumstances.
Bildad’s speech forms a reverse parallelism:
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