Job 25
Bildad speaks briefly in Job 25, focusing on God's greatness and human weakness. His words stress that no person can stand as pure or righteous before the Holy One on the basis of human merit.
Bildad responds to Job by magnifying God's rule, purity, and order in heaven. He says that dominion and awe belong to God and that even the heavenly beings are beyond counting. From that starting point, he asks how any human could be righteous before God. He compares the limits of people with the relative impurity of the moon and stars, then presses the point that fallen humanity is far less pure than the heavens. The chapter is short, direct, and severe in tone.
Job 25 is the last speech from Bildad in the dialogue section. It follows Job's defense in the previous chapter and adds one more argument about God's holiness and human frailty before Job answers again. The chapter helps move the debate toward the limits of human wisdom and the need for God to speak more fully.
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Bildad: Man Cannot Be Righteous
1Then Bildad the Shuhite replied:
2“Dominion and awe belong to God;
He establishes harmony in the heights of heaven.
3Can His troops be numbered?
On whom does His light not rise?
4How then can a man be just before God?
How can one born of woman be pure?
5If even the moon does not shine,
and the stars are not pure in His sight,
6how much less man, who is but a maggot,
and the son of man, who is but a worm!”
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