Job 25 (KJV)

The text, King James Version

1. 1Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,
2. 2Dominion and fear are with him, he maketh peace in his high places.
3. 3Is there any number of his armies? and upon whom doth not his light arise?
4. 4How then can man be justified with God? or how can he be clean that is born of a woman?
5. 5Behold even to the moon, and it shineth not; yea, the stars are not pure in his sight.
6. 6How much less man, that is a worm? and the son of man, which is a worm?

Summary of the chapter

From Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary.

Bildad shows that man cannot be justified before God. --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, Psa 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…