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 responded Bildad the Shuhite, and said:—

Dominion and dread, are with him, who causeth prosperity among his lofty ones;

Is there any number to his troops? And upon whom ariseth not his light?

How then shall, a mortal, be just with GOD? Or how shall he be pure who is born of a woman?

Look as far as the moon, and it is not clear, and, the stars, are not bright in his eyes!

How much less a mortal who is a creeping thing? Or a son of the earth-born who 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/rotherham/job/chapter-15/14">Job 15:14-16</a>. Job answers this challenge directly in <a href="/bible/rotherham/job/chapter-26">Job 26</a>.