Job 25:4
How then can man be just with God? Or how can he be clean who is born of a woman?
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
How then can man be justified with God? or how can he be clean that is born of a woman?
In Context
3Is there any number of his armies? And upon whom does his light not arise?
5Behold, even the moon has no brightness. And the stars are not pure in his sight.
Cross References
Job 4:17Shall mortal man be more just than God? Shall a man be more pure than his maker?
Job 9:2Of a truth I know that it is so. But how can man be just with God?
Job 14:3And do thou open thine eyes upon such a one, and bring me into judgment with thee?
Psalms 51:5Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, and in sin my mother conceived me.
Psalms 143:2And enter not into judgment with thy servant. For in thy sight no man living is righteous.
Romans 3:19Now we know that as many things as the law says, it says to those in the law, so that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become accountable to God.
Matthew Henry on Job 25:2-6
God Exalted and Man Abased. ( b. c. 1520.) 1 Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said, 2 Dominion and fear are with him, he maketh peace in his high places. 3 Is there any number of his armies? and upon whom doth not his light arise? 4 How then can man be justified with God? or how can he be clean that is born of a woman? 5 Behold even to the moon, and it shineth not; yea, the stars are not pure in his sight. 6 How much less man, that is a worm? and the son of man, which is a worm? Bildad is to be commended here… Read the whole commentary →