Bildad Speaks: Man Cannot Be Righteous
25Then Bildad the Shuhite answered and said:
2 “Dominion and fear are with God;[a]
he makes peace in his high heaven.
3 Is there any number to his armies?
Upon whom does his light not arise?
4 How then can man be in the right before God?
How can he who is born of woman be pure?
5 Behold, even the moon is not bright,
and the stars are not pure in his eyes;
6 how much less man, who is a maggot,
and the son of man, who is a worm!”Footnotes:
- Job 25:2 Hebrew him
Cross references:
- Job 25:1 : ch. 2:11
- Job 25:3 : ch. 19:12; Ps. 103:21
- Job 25:3 : Matt. 5:45; James 1:17
- Job 25:4 : ch. 4:17-19; 9:2; 15:14-16; Ps. 130:3; 143:2
- Job 25:4 : See ch. 14:1
- Job 25:4 : ch. 14:4
- Job 25:6 : ch. 9:14; 15:16
- Job 25:6 : Ps. 22:6; Isa. 41:14
- Job 25:6 : ch. 35:8