Job 25:4
How then can man be just with God? or how can he be clean that is born of a woman?
Revised Version 1895
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 of his armies? and upon whom doth not his light arise?
5Behold, even the moon hath no brightness, and the stars are not pure in his sight:
Cross References
Job 4:17Shall mortal man be more just than God? shall a man be more pure than his Maker?
Job 9:2Of a truth I know that it is so: but how can man be just with God?
Job 14:3And dost thou open thine eyes upon such an one, and bringest me into judgment with thee?
Psalms 51:5Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me.
Psalms 143:2And enter not into judgment with thy servant; for in thy sight shall no man living be justified.
Romans 3:19Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it speaketh to them that are under the law; that every mouth may be stopped, 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 →