Job 25:5
Behold, even the moon has no brightness. And the stars are not pure in his sight.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
Behold even to the moon, and it shineth not; yea, the stars are not pure in his sight.
In Context
4How then can man be just with God? Or how can he be clean who is born of a woman?
6How much less man, who is a worm! And the son of man, who is a worm!
Cross References
Job 4:18Behold, he puts no trust in his servants, and he charges his [heavenly] agents with folly.
Job 14:1Man, who is born of a woman, is of few days, and full of trouble.
Job 31:26if I have beheld the sun when it shone, or the moon walking in brightness,
Isaiah 60:19The sun shall no more be thy light by day, nor for brightness shall the moon give light to thee, but LORD will be to thee an everlasting light, and thy God thy glory.
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 →