1Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,
2Dominion and fear are with him, he makes peace in his high places.
3Is there any number of his armies? and upon whom does not his light arise?
4How then can man be justified with God? or how can he be clean that is born of a woman?
5Behold even to the moon, and it shines not; yea, the stars are not pure in his sight.
6How much less man, that is a worm? and the son of man, which is a worm?
Commentary
Matthew Henry on Job 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…
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