American Standard Version
Job 25:4
4How then can man be just with God?Or how can he be clean that is born of a woman?
Job 25:4 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)How then can man be justified with God? or how can he be clean that is born of a woman?
- New International Version (NIV)How then can a mortal be righteous before God? How can one born of woman be pure?
- English Standard Version (ESV)How then can man be in the right before God? How can he who is born of woman be pure?
- New King James Version (NKJV)How then can man be righteous before God? Or how can he be pure who is born of a woman?
Context of Job 25:4
2Dominion and fear are with him; He maketh peace in his high places. 3Is there any number of his armies? And upon whom doth not his light arise? How then can man be just with God? Or how can he be clean that is born of a woman? 5Behold, even the moon hath no brightness, And the stars are not pure in his sight: 6How much less man, that is a worm! And the son of man, that is a worm!
Read all of Job 25Job 25:4 word by word
וּמַה־יִּצְדַּ֣ק אֱנ֣וֹשׁ עִם־אֵ֑ל וּמַה־יִּ֝זְכֶּ֗ה יְל֣וּד אִשָּֽׁה׃Read the interlinear
Cross-references for Job 25:4
- 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 15:14What is man, that he should be clean? And he that is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
- Psalms 130:3If thou, Jehovah, shouldest mark iniquities, O Lord, who could stand?
- Psalms 143:2And enter not into judgment with thy servant; For in thy sight no man living is righteous.
- 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:
- Romans 5:1Being therefore justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ;
- Job 14:3And dost thou open thine eyes upon such a one, And bringest me into judgment with thee?
- Psalms 51:5Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity; And in sin did my mother conceive me.
- Zechariah 13:1In that day there shall be a fountain opened to the house of David and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, for sin and for uncleanness.
- Ephesians 2:3among whom we also all once lived in the lusts of our flesh, doing the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest:—
- 1 Corinthians 6:11And such were some of you: but ye were washed, but ye were sanctified, but ye were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, and in the Spirit of our God.
- 1 John 1:9If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
- Revelation 1:5and from Jesus Christ, who isthe faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. Unto him that loveth us, and loosed us from our sins by his blood;
Commentaries on Job 25:4
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 4How then can man be justified? - Or, ונה umah, With what, shall a man be justified with God? Though this is no conclusion from Bildad's premises, yet the question is of the highest importance to man. Neither Bildad nor any of his fellows could answer it; the doctrine of redemption through the blood of the cross was then known only through types and shadows. We who live in the Gospel dispensation, can readily answer the question, With what shall miserable…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 4How then can man be justified with God? - see Job 4:17-18; Job 15:15-16. Instead of meeting the facts to which Job had appealed, all that Bildad could now do was to repeat what had been said before. It shows that he felt himself unable to dispose of the argument, and yet that he was not willing to confess that he was vanquished. Or how can he be clean? - This sentiment had been expressed by Job himself, Job 14:4. Perhaps Bildad meant now to adopt it as…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 4Eliphaz stated that being innocent or pure is almost impossible (4:17–19; 15:14–16). A person can achieve it only after suffering (22:21–23). Bildad argued that only those who are completely blameless can hope to be pure (8:20).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 44. (Job 4:17, 18; 14:4; 15:14).Read the comment
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Commentaries on Job 25
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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