4 How then can man be justified with God? or how can he be clean that is born of a woman?
4 How then can man H582 be justified H6663 with God? H410 or how can he be clean H2135 that is born H3205 of a woman? H802
4 How then can man be just with God? Or how can he be clean that is born of a woman?
4 And what? is man righteous with God? And what? is he pure -- born of a woman?
4 And how should man be just with ùGod? Or how should he be clean that is born of a woman?
4 How then can man be just with God? Or how can he who is born of a woman be clean?
4 How then is it possible for man to be upright before God? or how may he be clean who is a son of woman?
Shall mortal man be more just than God? shall a man be more pure than his maker? Behold, he put no trust in his servants; and his angels he charged with folly: How much less in them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, which are crushed before the moth?
What is man, that he should be clean? and he which is born of a woman, that he should be righteous? Behold, he putteth no trust in his saints; yea, the heavens are not clean in his sight. How much more abominable and filthy is man, which drinketh iniquity like water?
Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God. Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin.
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Commentary on Job 25 Matthew Henry Commentary
Chapter 25
Bildad here makes a very short reply to Job's last discourse, as one that began to be tired of the cause. He drops the main question concerning the prosperity of wicked men, as being unable to answer the proofs Job had produced in the foregoing chapter: but, because he thought Job had made too bold with the divine majesty in his appeals to the divine tribunal (ch. 23), he in a few words shows the infinite distance there is between God and man, teaching us,
These, however misapplied to Job, are two good lessons for us all to learn.
Job 25:1-6
Bildad is to be commended here for two things:-
Two ways Bildad takes here to exalt God and abase man:-