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 G-d? 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 maggot!

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