Job 25 - New Revised Standard Version (NRSV)

Bildad Speaks: How Can a Mortal Be Righteous Before God?

25 Then Bildad the Shuhite answered:

2 “Dominion and fear are with God;[a]
he makes peace in his high heaven.(A)
3 Is there any number to his armies?
Upon whom does his light not arise?(B)
4 How then can a mortal be righteous before God?
How can one born of woman be pure?(C)
5 If even the moon is not bright
and the stars are not pure in his sight,(D)
6 how much less a mortal, who is a maggot,
and a human being, who is a worm!”(E)

Footnotes

  1. 25.2Heb him

Cross references

  1. 25.2 : Job 9.4; 22.12; Rev 1.6
  2. 25.3 : Jas 1.17
  3. 25.4 : Job 4.17; 14.4; Ps 143.2
  4. 25.5 : Job 15.15; 31.26
  5. 25.6 : Job 7.17; Ps 22.6