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Job 25 - English Standard Version (ESV)

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Bildad Speaks: Man Cannot Be Righteous

25 Then (A)Bildad the Shuhite answered and said:

2 “Dominion and fear are with God;[a]
he makes peace in his high heaven.
3 Is there any number to his (B)armies?
Upon whom does his (C)light not arise?
4 How then can man be (D)in the right before God?
How can he who is (E)born of woman be (F)pure?
5 Behold, even the moon is not bright,
and the stars are not pure in his eyes;
6 (G)how much less man, who is (H)a maggot,
and (I)the son of man, who is a worm!”

Footnotes

  1. Job 25:2 Hebrew him

Cross references

  1. Job 25:1 : ch. 2:11
  2. Job 25:3 : ch. 19:12; Ps. 103:21
  3. Job 25:3 : Matt. 5:45; James 1:17
  4. Job 25:4 : ch. 4:17-19; 9:2; 15:14-16; Ps. 130:3; 143:2
  5. Job 25:4 : See ch. 14:1
  6. Job 25:4 : ch. 14:4
  7. Job 25:6 : ch. 9:14; 15:16
  8. Job 25:6 : Ps. 22:6; Isa. 41:14
  9. Job 25:6 : ch. 35:8

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