Job 25:4
How then can a man be just before God? How can one born of woman be pure?
Berean Standard Bible
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
3Can His troops be numbered? On whom does His light not rise?
5If even the moon does not shine, and the stars are not pure in His sight,
Cross References
Job 4:17‘Can a mortal be more righteous than God, or a man more pure than his Maker?
Job 9:2“Yes, I know that it is so, but how can a mortal be righteous before God?
Job 14:3Do You open Your eyes to one like this? Will You bring him into judgment before You?
Psalms 51:5Surely I was brought forth in iniquity; I was sinful when my mother conceived me.
Psalms 143:2Do not bring Your servant into judgment, for no one alive is righteous before You.
Romans 3:19Now we know that whatever the law says, it says to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be silenced and the whole world held 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 →