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Job 25

Bildad speaks a third time [ a ]

25 Then Bildad, the man from Shuah, replied. This is what he said:

2 ‘God rules everything
and we should be afraid of his great power.
In heaven above he causes there to be peace.
3 The number of angels in his armies are too many to count.
His light shines over everyone.
4 No human is righteous when he stands in front of God.
He cannot be pure.
5 When God looks at the moon and the stars,
they do not seem to be pure and bright.
6 So when God looks at us humans,
we do not seem important to him.
To him, we are as useless as worms.’

Footnotes

  1. 25:1 In this chapter, Bildad tells Job that God is great and powerful. So we cannot do anything to help God. This does not answer Job's questions about all his troubles.

Bildad Answers Job

25 Then Bildad from Shuah answered:

2 “God is the ruler.
He makes people fear and respect him.
He keeps peace in his kingdom above.
3 No one can count his stars. [ a ]
His sun rises on all people.
4 How can anyone claim to be right before God?
No human being [ b ] can really be pure.
5 In God’s eyes even the moon is not pure and bright;
even the stars are not pure.
6 People are much less pure.
They are like maggots, as worthless as worms!”

Footnotes

  1. Job 25:3 his stars Or “his troops.” This means God’s heavenly army. It could be all the angels or all the stars in the sky.
  2. Job 25:4 No human being Literally, “No one born from woman.”

25 Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,

2 Dominion and fear are with him, he maketh peace in his high places.

3 Is there any number of his armies? and upon whom doth not his light arise?

4 How then can man be justified with God? or how can he be clean that is born of a woman?

5 Behold even to the moon, and it shineth not; yea, the stars are not pure in his sight.

6 How much less man, that is a worm? and the son of man, which is a worm?

Bildad Says Mankind Is Inferior

25 Then Bildad the Shuhite responded,

2 “ ( A ) Dominion and awe [ a ] belong to Him
Who makes peace in ( B ) His heights.
3 Is there any number to ( C ) His troops?
And upon whom does His light not rise?
4 How then can mankind be ( D ) righteous with God?
Or how can anyone who is born of woman be ( E ) pure?
5 If even ( F ) the moon has no brightness
And the ( G ) stars are not pure in His sight,
6 How much less ( H ) man, that ( I ) maggot,
And a son of man, that worm!”

Footnotes

  1. Job 25:2 Lit are with Him

Bildad

25 Then Bildad the Shuhite ( A ) replied:

2 “Dominion and awe belong to God; ( B )
he establishes order in the heights of heaven. ( C )
3 Can his forces be numbered?
On whom does his light not rise? ( D )
4 How then can a mortal be righteous before God?
How can one born of woman be pure? ( E )
5 If even the moon ( F ) is not bright
and the stars are not pure in his eyes, ( G )
6 how much less a mortal, who is but a maggot—
a human being, ( H ) who is only a worm!” ( I )

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