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?
May a man be upright before God? or a man be clean before his Maker? Truly, he puts no faith in his servants, and he sees error in his angels; How much more those living in houses of earth, whose bases are in the dust! They are crushed more quickly than an insect;
Truly, I see that it is so: and how is it possible for a man to get his right before God?
O Jah, if you took note of every sin, who would go free?
Let not your servant come before you to be judged; for no man living is upright in your eyes.
Truly, I was formed in evil, and in sin did my mother give me birth.
In that day there will be a fountain open to the family of David and to the people of Jerusalem, for sin and for that which is unclean.
Is it on such a one as this that your eyes are fixed, with the purpose of judging him? If only a clean thing might come out of an unclean! But it is not possible.
Now, we have knowledge that what the law says is for those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be stopped, and all men may be judged by God: Because by the works of the law no man is able to have righteousness in his eyes, for through the law comes the knowledge of sin.
And from Jesus Christ, the true witness, the first to come back from the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To him who had love for us and has made us clean from our sins by his blood;
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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:-