Job 25:4
Can man be justified compared with God, or he that is born of a woman appear clean?
Douay-Rheims 1899
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 numbering of his soldiers? and upon whom shall not his light arise?
5Behold even the moon doth not shine, and the stars are not pure in his sight.
Cross References
Job 4:17Shall man be justified in comparison of God, or shall a man be more pure than his maker?
Job 9:2Indeed I know it is so, and that man cannot be justified compared with
Job 14:3And dost thou think it meet to open thy eyes upon such an one, and to bring him into judgment with thee?
Psalms 51:5For I know my iniquity, and my sin is always before me.
Psalms 143:2I cried to the Lord with my voice: with my voice I made supplication to the Lord.
Romans 3:19Now we know, that what things soever the law speaketh, it speaketh to them that are in the law; that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may be made subject 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 →