By Mike Dawson
Retired Baptist pastor
Focal Passage: Job 14:1-14
Who was the smallest man in the Bible? Not Zaccheus, although many of us as children sang “and a wee little man was he.” Not even Nehemiah (“Knee-High-miah.”) No, the Bible’s smallest man was one of Job’s friends, Bildad the Shuhite (“Shoe-height.”)
Those are some awful puns, I admit; but our larger text, Job 2:11-14:22, is heavy; so we needed a smile to get started today.
After Job’s terrorizing and disastrous loss of nearly everything he once had, Bildad the Shuhite was indeed one of Job’s three ‘friends’ who came to comfort him. The other two were Eliphaz the Temanite and Zophar the Naamathite.
Job the man not only lost his possessions, property, and people — he also contracted a terrible skin disease. He sat distorted in appearance and wallowing in his grief and pain and loneliness. [Read more…]