Job 25:5

If he gives an order to the moon, then it shines not; 1 And the stars are not pure before him. 1

Updated Brenton Septuagint

In The King James Version

Behold even to the moon, and it shineth not; yea, the stars are not pure in his sight.

In Context

4For how shall a mortal be just before the Lord? 1 Or who that is born of a woman shall purify himself? 1

6But alas! man is corruption, 1 And the son of man a worm.

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Cross References

Job 4:18Whereas he trusts not in his servants, 1 And perceives perverseness in his angels. 1

Job 14:1For a mortal born of a woman is short-lived, and full of wrath. 1

Job 31:26(Do we not see the shining sun eclipsed, 1 And the moon waning? for they have not power to continue): 1

Isaiah 60:19And thou shalt no more have the sun for a light by day, nor shall the rising of the moon lighten thy night; but the Lord shall be thine everlasting light, and God thy glory.

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 →

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