4 And how should man be just with ùGod? Or how should he be clean that is born of a woman?
Shall [mortal] man be more just than +God? Shall a man be purer than his Maker? Lo, he trusteth not his servants, and his angels he chargeth with folly: How much more them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed as the moth!
Of a truth I know it is so; but how can man be just with ùGod?
What is man, that he should be pure? and he that is born of a woman, that he should be righteous? Behold, he putteth no trust in his holy ones, and the heavens are not pure in his sight: How much less the abominable and corrupt, -- man, that drinketh unrighteousness like water!
If thou, Jah, shouldest mark iniquities, Lord, who shall stand?
And enter not into judgment with thy servant; for in thy sight no man living shall be justified.
Behold, in iniquity was I brought forth, and in sin did my mother conceive me.
In that day there shall be a fountain opened to the house of David and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem for sin and for uncleanness.
Yet dost thou open thine eyes upon such a one, and bringest me into judgment with thee? Who can bring a clean [man] out of the unclean? Not one!
Now we know that whatever the things the law says, it speaks to those under the law, that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world be under judgment to God. Wherefore by works of law no flesh shall be justified before him; for by law [is] knowledge of sin.
and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn from the dead, and the prince of the kings of the earth. To him who loves us, and has washed us from our sins in 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:-