Job Chapter 25 (ASV)

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Job 25 is part of “Third Cycle of Dialogue” (22–31) in the outline of Job.

Job 25 summary

Bildad here makes a very short reply to Job's last discourse, as one that began to be tired of the cause. He drops the main question concerning the prosperity of wicked men, as being unable to answer the proofs Job had produced in the foregoing chapter: but, because he thought Job had made too bold with the divine majesty in his appeals to the divine tribunal (ch. 23), he in a few words shows the infinite distance there is between God and man, teaching us, I. To think highly and honourably of God (Job 25:2, Job 25:3, Job 25:5). II. To think meanly of ourselves (Job 25:4, Job 25:6). These, however misapplied to Job, are two good lessons for us all to learn.

Source: Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible (1706–21; Romans–Revelation completed by Nonconformist ministers). Public domain. Digital text: Free Use Bible API (bible.helloao.org).

1. 1 Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,
2. 2 Dominion and fear are with him; He maketh peace in his high places.
3. 3 Is there any number of his armies? And upon whom doth not his light arise?
4. 4 How then can man be just with God? Or how can he be clean that is born of a woman?
5. 5 Behold, even the moon hath no brightness, And the stars are not pure in his sight:
6. 6 How much less man, that is a worm! And the son of man, that is a worm!