Job 25:4
How then shall, a mortal, be just with GOD? Or how shall he be pure who is born of a woman?
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
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 to his troops? And upon whom ariseth not his light?
5Look as far as the moon, and it is not clear, and, the stars, are not bright in his eyes!
Cross References
Job 4:17Shall, mortal man, be more just than GOD? Or a man be more pure than, his Maker?
Job 9:2Of a truth, I know that so it is, But how can a mortal be just with GOD?
Job 14:3And yet upon such a one as this, hast thou opened thine eye? And, him, wouldst thou bring into judgment with thee?
Psalms 51:5Lo! in iniquity, was I brought forth, And, in sin, did my mother conceive me.
Psalms 143:2Do not then enter into judgment with thy servant, for no one living, can appear just before thee.
Romans 3:19Now we know that, whatsoever things the law saith, to them who are within the law, it speaketh, in order that, every mouth, may be stopped and all the world come, under penal sentence, unto 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 →