Chapter xviii, Verses 1, 2.—'Then Baldad the Suhite answered, and said: How long wilt thou throw out words? Understand first, and so let us speak.' 2. The heretics accuse the Church of pride and ignorance.—All heretics suppose that holy Church is proud in certain things she knows, and suspect that certain things she does not even understand. Whence Baldad the Suhite alleges that blessed Job had, as it were, burst forth into pride, whom he declares to throw out words. But he himself signifies with how great haughtiness he had swelled, who supposed that blessed Job spoke what he did not understand. And because all heretics complain that in their own estimation they are despised by holy Church, it is aptly added: