Job 8:1 says, Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,  Another of Job's friends who had come to comfort him, Bildad the Shuhite, now begins to tell Job what he believes to be Job's problem.  There was not a shouting match between Job and his friends, but they spoke in order and allowed Job an opportunity to respond.  I believe that today we have too often lost this ability to reason together.  We want to shout down the other person's point of view without listening and responding respectfully.  Verse two adds, How long wilt thou speak these things? and how long shall the words of thy mouth be like a strong wind?  Bildad had not been convinced by Job's reply to Eliphaz.  He had listened, but now he was saying that Job was just speaking empty words.  We today might say that in our opinion, Job was just blowing hot air.  Bildad was convinced that he knew that Job was being punished because of some great sin in Job's life, but like Eliphaz, he was wrong.  Just because more than one person attempts to judge our relationship to God, it doesn't mean that they are right.  Verse three continues, Doth God pervert judgment? or doth the Almighty pervert justice?  Bildad was asking if God would punish the innocent, which would be a perversion of justice.  We must remember that God was not punishing Job but was holding him up as a truly righteous man.  Being a follower of Christ does not exempt us from suffering in life, and actually may lead to just the opposite.  We are called to follow God, and we can be certain that when we do, that suffering does not come from God.  Verse four states, If thy children have sinned against him, and he have cast them away for their transgression;  Bildad said that Job's children had died due to transgression on their part.  Though they were guilty of transgression, or sin, as we all are, this was not what caused their death.  We can also be certain that they did not die without an opportunity to make things right between themselves and God. Verse five adds, If thou wouldest seek unto God betimes, and make thy supplication to the Almighty; Bildad, though starting his statements with an if, I believe really meant them as statements of fact.  He believed that Job wasn't really seeking God and asking Him for forgiveness or restoration.  We must never assume that we know another person's relationship with God, especially based on material factors.  Verse six continues, If thou wert pure and upright; surely now he would awake for thee, and make the habitation of thy righteousness prosperous.  Bildad was equating serving God with being blessed materially.  He believed that Job was suffering because of some unconfessed sin and that if he would confess and ask God for restoration that he would be blessed materially once more.  We can never allow the idea that if we serve God we are going to be made rich to become a part of the gospel.  Verse seven concludes, Though thy beginning was small, yet thy latter end should greatly increase. I believe that Bildad was telling Job that when Job confessed and made things right with God that he would be even richer than he was before.  I believe that if we only repent in the hope of being blessed materially that it isn't really repenting.  Repentance can have no conditions attached.  We simply place our lives in God's hands and commit to being faithful to Him no matter what happens in life.