Thomas Hardy, in one of his poems, tells about a messenger sent one day to remind God of the human race, and God cannot remember, cannot remember a thing.*2 That is the kind of God that Bildad is exalting. Bildad is an intellectual who has a head full of philosophical truths and ideas, but he has no ability to make any connection with the personal details of human life. He is all ideas and can talk about them endlessly, but he can never remember his wedding anniversary.
