Job 25:4
And how should man be just with God? Or how should he be clean that is born of a woman?
Darby Translation
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 troops? and upon whom doth not his light arise?
5Lo, even the moon is not bright; 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 purer than his Maker?
Job 9:2Of a truth I know it is so; but how can man be just with God?
Job 14:3Yet dost thou open thine eyes upon such a one, and bringest me into judgment with thee?
Psalms 51:5Behold, in iniquity was I brought forth, and in sin did my mother conceive me.
Psalms 143:2And enter not into judgment with thy servant; for in thy sight no man living shall be justified.
Romans 3:19Now we know that whatever the things the law says, it speaks to those under the law, that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world be under judgment 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 →