Job 25 WEB

Summary: Bildad offers a brief third and final speech, much shorter than his earlier ones, simply extolling God's dominion and majesty in the heavens, which maintain order and peace among the heavenly hosts. He asks rhetorically how any human being can be righteous or pure before God, noting that even the moon and stars are not pure in God's sight, so how much less a mortal, who he describes dismissively as a maggot or worm. The brevity of the speech, and the fact Zophar offers no matching third speech at all, signals that the friends' arguments are running out.

1Then Bildad the Shuhite answered,

2“Dominion and fear are with him. He makes peace in his high places.

3Can his armies be counted? On whom does his light not arise?

4How then can man be just with God? Or how can he who is born of a woman be clean?

5Behold, even the moon has no brightness, and the stars are not pure in his sight;

6How much less man, who is a worm, the son of man, who is a worm!”

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