6 How much less man who is an insect, and the son of man who is a worm!
But I am a worm and not a man; cursed by men, and looked down on by the people.
Have no fear, you worm Jacob, and you men of Israel; I will be your helper, says the Lord, even he who takes up your cause, the Holy One of Israel.
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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:-