Job 25

How can man be righteous

Then Bildad the Shuhite replied: 2“Dominion and awe belong to God; He establishes harmony in the heights of heaven. 3Can His troops be numbered? On whom does His light not rise?

4How then can a man be just before God? How can one born of woman be pure?a 5If even the moon does not shine, and the stars are not pure in His sight, 6how much less man, who is but a maggot, and the son of man, who is but a worm!”

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Job 25 is the shortest chapter in the book, containing Bildad the Shuhite's final speech. In just six verses, Bildad offers a stark, almost sterile portrait of God's transcendent majesty and human insignificance. He argues that no mortal can be righteous before the Creator, who c

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