Job 25:4
How then can man be just with God? Or how can he who is born of a woman be clean?
World English Bible Classic
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 his armies be counted? On whom does his light not arise?
5Behold, even the moon has no brightness, and the stars are not pure in his sight;
Cross References
Job 4:17‘Shall mortal man be more just than God? Shall a man be more pure than his Maker?
Job 9:2“Truly I know that it is so, but how can man be just with God?
Job 14:3Do you open your eyes on such a one, and bring me into judgment with you?
Psalms 51:5Behold, I was born in iniquity. My mother conceived me in sin.
Psalms 143:2Don’t enter into judgment with your servant, for in your sight no man living is righteous.
Romans 3:19Now we know that whatever things the law says, it speaks to those who are under the law, that every mouth may be closed, and all the world may be brought under the judgment of 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 →