Job 25 YLT

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.

1And Bildad the Shuhite answereth and saith: --

2The rule and fear are with Him, Making peace in His high places.

3Is their any number to His troops? And on whom ariseth not His light?

4And what? is man righteous with God? And what? is he pure--born of a woman?

5Lo--unto the moon, and it shineth not, And stars have not been pure in His eyes.

6How much less man--a grub, And the son of man--a worm!

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