4 And what? is man righteous with God? And what? is he pure -- born of a woman?
`Is mortal man than God more righteous? Than his Maker is a man cleaner? Lo, in His servants He putteth no credence, Nor in His messengers setteth praise.' Also -- the inhabitants of houses of clay, (Whose foundation `is' in the dust, They bruise them before a moth.)
Truly I have known that `it is' so, And what -- is man righteous with God?
If iniquities Thou dost observe, O Lord, who doth stand?
And enter not into judgment with Thy servant, For no one living is justified before Thee.
Lo, in iniquity I have been brought forth, And in sin doth my mother conceive me.
In that day there is a fountain opened To the house of David And to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, For sin and for impurity.
Also -- on this Thou hast opened Thine eyes, And dost bring me into judgment with Thee. Who giveth a clean thing out of an unclean? not one.
And we have known that as many things as the law saith, to those in the law it doth speak, that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may come under judgment to God; wherefore by works of law shall no flesh be declared righteous before Him, for through law is a knowledge of sin.
and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the first-born out of the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth; to him who did love us, and did bathe 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:-