Bildad spoke words of condemnation to Job. He defended his own speech by shredding Job with words. He described in detail the despair experienced by the wicked because of God’s punishment upon them. Bildad urged Job to surrender himself as one who did not know God. Job objected strongly to the reproach of his friends. He described himself as one who all others had forsaken, and one who God had put His hand on to destroy. Job did not give his earthly existence hope, but he spoke of the hope of seeing God face to face when his earthly body finally and permanently died. His hope was in the living God, his Redeemer.