Job 25:4
How then can man be justified with God? or how can be one that is born of woman?
Leeser Tanakh
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 the number of his hosts be given? and over whom riseth not his light?
5Behold, even as regardeth the moon, that is not bright; yea, the stars are not pure in his eyes.
Cross References
Job 4:17Can a mortal be more righteous than God? or can a man be more pure than his Maker?
Job 9:2Truly I know that it is so: and how could a mortal be righteous before God?
Job 14:3And yet on such a one dost thou open thy eyes, and me thou bringest into judgment with thee?
Psalms 51:5(51:7) Behold, 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 no living man can be regarded righteous before thee.
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 →