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Bildad @ son of contention, one of Job's friends. He is called "the Shuhite," probably as belonging to Shuah, a district in Arabia, in which Shuah, the sixth son of Abraham by Keturah, settled kjv@Genesis:25:2). He took part in each of the three controversies into which Job's friends entered with him kjv@Job:8:1 kjv@Job:18:1 kjv@Job:25:1 ), and delivered three speeches, very severe and stern in their tone, although less violent than those of Zophar, but more so than those of Eliphaz.