Job 25:4
How then can man be just with God? Or how can he be clean that is born of a woman?
JPS TaNaKH 1917
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 armies? And upon whom doth not His light arise?
5Behold, even the moon hath no brightness, and the stars are not pure in His sight;
Cross References
Job 4:17'Shall mortal man be just before God? Shall a man be pure before his Maker?
Job 9:2Of a truth I know that it is so; and how can man be just with God?
Job 14:3And dost Thou open Thine eyes upon such a one, and bringest me into judgment with Thee?
Psalms 51:5(51-7) Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, and in sin did my mother conceive me.
Psalms 143:2And enter not into judgment with Thy servant; for in Thy sight shall no man living be justified.
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 →