Job Chapter 25

Bildad's shortest and final word to Job: no one is pure before God.

Job 25 - Bildad's Final Reply

In this short closing speech, Job 24 gives way to Bildad's last argument: if even the moon and stars are not pure in God's sight, no human born of a woman can claim to be clean. Read the full text in the Job overview.


Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,

Dominion and fear are with him; He maketh peace in his high places.

Is there any number of his armies? And upon whom doth not his light arise?

How then can man be just with God? Or how can he be clean that is born of a woman?

Behold, even the moon hath no brightness, And the stars are not pure in his sight:

How much less man, that is a worm! And the son of man, that is a worm!

Bildad's question 'how can he be clean that is born of a woman' echoes an idea explored further in <a href="/bible/asv/job/chapter-15/14">Job 15:14-16</a>. Job answers this challenge directly in <a href="/bible/asv/job/chapter-26">Job 26</a>.