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Job 25
1Then Bildad the Shuhite answered,
2"Dominion and fear are with him. He makes peace in his high places.
3Can his armies be counted? On whom does his light not arise?
4How then can man be just with God? Or how can he who is born of a woman be clean?
5Behold, even the moon has no brightness, and the stars are not pure in his sight;
6How much less man, who is a worm, the son of man, who is a worm!"
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Angel (A Spirit): A Celestial Spirit: Innumerable Job 25:3
Can His troops be numbered? On whom does His light not rise?
Angels are Innumerable Job 25:3
Can His troops be numbered? On whom does His light not rise?
Bildad: One of Job's Friends Job 25:1
Then Bildad the Shuhite replied:
Depravity of Man: General Scriptures Concerning Job 25:4–6
How then can a man be just before God? How can one born of woman be pure? / If even the moon does not shine, and the stars are not pure in His sight, / how much less man, who is but a maggot, and the son of man, who is but a worm!”
God: Glory of Job 25:3
Can His troops be numbered? On whom does His light not rise?
God: Holiness of Job 25:5
If even the moon does not shine, and the stars are not pure in His sight,
God: Sovereign Job 25:2
“Dominion and awe belong to God; He establishes harmony in the heights of heaven.
Humility: General Scriptures Concerning Job 25:5, 6
If even the moon does not shine, and the stars are not pure in His sight, / how much less man, who is but a maggot, and the son of man, who is but a worm!”
Insects: Earthworm Job 25:6
how much less man, who is but a maggot, and the son of man, who is but a worm!”
Job: A Man Who Lived in Uz: Complaints of, and Replies by his Three Friends To Job 25:1
Then Bildad the Shuhite replied:
Justification Before God: Under Law: Man Cannot Attain To Job 25:4
How then can a man be just before God? How can one born of woman be pure?
Light: Diffusive Job 25:3
Can His troops be numbered? On whom does His light not rise?
Man: Called: A Worm Job 25:6
how much less man, who is but a maggot, and the son of man, who is but a worm!”
Man: Cannot be Just with God Job 25:4
How then can a man be just before God? How can one born of woman be pure?
Man: Insignificance of Job 25:4–6
How then can a man be just before God? How can one born of woman be pure? / If even the moon does not shine, and the stars are not pure in His sight, / how much less man, who is but a maggot, and the son of man, who is but a worm!”
Moon: Darkening of Job 25:5
If even the moon does not shine, and the stars are not pure in His sight,
Sin: All Men are Conceived and Born In Job 25:4
How then can a man be just before God? How can one born of woman be pure?
The Fall of Man: Man in Consequence of Born in Sin Job 25:4
How then can a man be just before God? How can one born of woman be pure?
The Stars: Impure in the Sight of God Job 25:5
If even the moon does not shine, and the stars are not pure in His sight,
Worm: Figurative Job 25:6
how much less man, who is but a maggot, and the son of man, who is but a worm!”
Worms Job 25:6
how much less man, who is but a maggot, and the son of man, who is but a worm!”
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Job 25:1-999 Chapter 25
Bildad shows that man cannot be justified before God. --Bildad drops the question concerning the prosperity of wicked men; but shows the infinite distance there is between God and man. He represents to Job some truths he had too much overlooked. Man's righteousness and holiness, at the best, are nothing in comparison with God's, Ps 89:6. As God is so great and glorious, how can man, who is guilty and impure, appear before him? We need to be born again of water and of the Holy Ghost, and to be bathed again and again in the blood of Christ, that Fountain opened, Zec 13:1. We should be humbled as mean, guilty, polluted creatures, and renounce self-dependence. But our vileness will commend Christ's condescension and love; the riches of his mercy and the power of his grace will be magnified to all eternity by every sinner he redeems.
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Job 25:1-6 Bildad's Reply.
He tries to show Job's rashness (Job 23:3), by arguments borrowed from Eliphaz (Job 15:15, with which compare Job 11:17.
Job 25:2 Bildad's Reply.
Power and terror, that is, terror-inspiring power. peace in his high places--implying that His power is such on high as to quell all opposition, not merely there, but on earth also. The Holy Ghost here shadowed forth Gospel truths (Col 1:20; Eph 1:10).
Job 25:3 Bildad's Reply.
armies--angels and stars (Isa 40:26; Jer 33:22; Ge 15:5; "countless," Da 7:10). his light--(Jas 1:17).
Job 25:4 Bildad's Reply.
(Job 4:17, 18; 14:4; 15:14).
Job 25:5 Bildad's Reply.
"Look up even unto the moon" (Job 15:15). "Stars" here answer to "saints" (angels) there; "the moon" here to "the heavens" there. Even the "stars," the most dazzling object to man's eye, and the angels, of which the stars are emblems (Job 4:18; Re 9:1), are imperfect in His sight. Theirs is the light and purity but of creatures; His of the Creator.
Job 25:6 Bildad's Reply.
(Job 4:19-21; 15:16). worm ... worm--Two distinct Hebrew words. The first, a worm bred in putridity; alluding to man's corruption. The second a crawling worm; implying that man is weak and grovelling.