Job 25:4
How then can man be righteous before? Or how can he be pure that is born of woman?
Noyes 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
3Is there any numbering of his hosts? And upon whom doth not his light arise?
5Behold, even the moon, it shineth not; And the stars are not pure in his sight,
Cross References
Job 4:17“Shall mortal man be more just than God? Shall man be more pure than his Maker?
Job 9:2Of a truth, I know that it is so: For how can man be just before God?
Job 14:3And dost thou fix thine eyes upon such a one? And dost thou bring me into judgment with thee?
Psalms 51:5Behold! I was born in iniquity, And in sin did my mother conceive me.
Psalms 143:2Enter not into judgment with thy servant; For before thee no man living is righteous.
Romans 3:19Now we know that whatever the Law saith, it saith to those who are under the Law; that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world become subject to condemnation before 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 →