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because from verse 5 all the way to the end he describes the wicked.
He is describing Job, but he describes it in the terms of the wicked.

“Indeed, the light of the wicked goes out, and the flame of his fire
gives no light.”

Then the rest of the chapter describes the wicked, and he says, Job, didn’t
that happen to you? That is what happens to wicked men, and that is why
you have got it because you are a wicked man. “The light of the wicked
goes out.” Chapter 25, you see the same thing. Verses 4-6
“How then can a man be just with God? Or how can he be clean
who is born of woman? If even the moon has no brightness and the
stars are not pure in His sight, how much less man, that maggot, and
the son of man, that worm!”

What right do you have Job, says Bildad, to say that you are righteous?
The wicked suffer. You are suffering. Chapter 11, verse 11

“For He knows false men, and He sees iniquity without
investigating. An idiot will become intelligent when the foal of a wild
donkey is born a man. If you would direct your heart right and
spread out your hand to Him,
if iniquity is in your hand, put it far away, And do not let wickedness
dwell in your tents; Then, indeed, you could lift up your face without
moral defect and you would be steadfast and not fear.”
And so Zophar accuses him of the same thing. Look at verse 20,

“But the eyes of the wicked will fail, and there will be
no escape for them; And their hope is to breathe their last.”

So he throws him in with the wicked. Zophar speaks again. Verse 5
“That the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the
godless momentary? Complete darkness is held in reserve for his
treasures, and unfanned fire will devour him; It will consume the
survivor in his tent. The heavens will reveal his iniquity, and the
earth will rise up against him. The increase of his house will depart;
His possessions will flow away in the day of His anger. This is the
wicked man’s portion from God,
even the heritage decreed to him by God.”
And he looks at old Job, and he sees him suffering, and he says it is all

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