Job 25:4
How can a human being be right before God? Can anyone born of woman be pure?
Free Bible 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
3Who can count his armies? Is there anywhere his light doesn't shine?
5If in God's eyes even the moon does not shine brightly, and the stars are not pure,
Cross References
Job 4:17‘Can anyone be right before God? Can anyone be pure before their Maker?
Job 9:2“Yes, I know all that! But how can anyone be right before God?
Job 14:3Do you even notice me, God, and why do you have to drag me to court?
Psalms 51:5It's true that I was born guilty—sinful from the time my mother conceived me.
Psalms 143:2Please don't place me, your servant, on trial, because nobody is innocent in your sight.
Romans 3:19It's clear that everything in the law applies to those who live under the law so that no one could have any excuses, and to make sure everyone in the whole world is answerable 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 →