1 Then Bildad the Shuhite made answer and said,
2 Rule and power are his; he makes peace in his high places.
3 Is it possible for his armies to be numbered? and on whom is not his light shining?
4 How then is it possible for man to be upright before God? or how may he be clean who is a son of woman?
5 See, even the moon is not bright, and the stars are not clean in his eyes:
6 How much less man who is an insect, and the son of man who is a worm!
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Commentary on Job 25 Matthew Henry Commentary
Chapter 25
Bildad here makes a very short reply to Job's last discourse, as one that began to be tired of the cause. He drops the main question concerning the prosperity of wicked men, as being unable to answer the proofs Job had produced in the foregoing chapter: but, because he thought Job had made too bold with the divine majesty in his appeals to the divine tribunal (ch. 23), he in a few words shows the infinite distance there is between God and man, teaching us,
These, however misapplied to Job, are two good lessons for us all to learn.
Job 25:1-6
Bildad is to be commended here for two things:-
Two ways Bildad takes here to exalt God and abase man:-