The Bible: Job Chapter 25: with Audio and Commentary.

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Job Chapter 25

1 Then Bildad the Shuhite answered,

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

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

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

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

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

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Job Chapter 25 Guide

The answer of Bildad is characterized by its brevity, and by the fact that he did not set himself to argue the matter with Job. It is a manifest weakening in the controversy on the side of the friends. Bildad was not prepared to discuss the general truth of what had been said, but he made it perfectly evident that he had no sympathy with the personal application which Job suggested. He contented himself with a general statement, first, of the greatness and government of God; and, second, of the consequent absurdity of man's attempt to defend himself, or claim to be just or clean before God.

As to the first, he briefly affirmed the fact of God's enthronement, and of His administration of all affairs. In the presence of this greatness, before which the moon lacks brightness and the stars are impure, how can man, who is but a worm, be just or dean? The force of the speech is identical with that of Eliphaz. Without argument, Bildad made it perfectly clear that, in his mind, the guilt of Job was established.

From "An Exposition of the Whole Bible" by G. Campbell Morgan.

Job Chapter 25 Commentary

Chapter Outline

  1. Bildad shows that man cannot be justified before God.

Verses 1-6

Bildad drops the question concerning the prosperity of wicked men; but shows the infinite distance there is between God and man. He represents to Job some truths he had too much overlooked. Man's righteousness and holiness, at the best, are nothing in comparison with God's, Ps 89:6. As God is so great and glorious, how can man, who is guilty and impure, appear before him? We need to be born again of water and of the Holy Ghost, and to be bathed again and again in the blood of Christ, that Fountain opened, Zec 13:1. We should be humbled as mean, guilty, polluted creatures, and renounce self-dependence. But our vileness will commend Christ's condescension and love; the riches of his mercy and the power of his grace will be magnified to all eternity by every sinner he redeems.

From the "Concise Commentary on the Bible" by Matthew Henry.