EasyEnglish Bible 2018
Job 25:4
4No human is righteous when he stands in front of God. He cannot be pure.
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
2‘God rules everything and we should be afraid of his great power. In heaven above he causes there to be peace. 3The number of angels in his armies are too many to count. His light shines over everyone. No human is righteous when he stands in front of God. He cannot be pure. 5When God looks at the moon and the stars, they do not seem to be pure and bright. 6So when God looks at us humans, we do not seem important to him. To him, we are as useless as worms.’
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וּמַה־יִּצְדַּ֣ק אֱנ֣וֹשׁ עִם־אֵ֑ל וּמַה־יִּ֝זְכֶּ֗ה יְל֣וּד אִשָּֽׁה׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Job 25:4
- Job 4:17“No human is righteous when he stands in front of God. He cannot be pure in front of his Maker.
- Job 9:2‘The things that you have said are true. But nobody can show God that he is completely good.
- Job 15:14No one who is human can be truly pure and righteous.
- Psalms 130:3Lord, if you should write down all our sins, nobody could stand as a righteous person.
- Psalms 143:2Do not judge me, your servant. Nobody is righteous when they stand in front of you.
- Romans 3:19So, we know that God's Law belongs to the Jews. God told them to obey everything that his Law teaches. As a result, nobody can say: ‘God should not punish me.’ Everybody in the world must stand in front of God and he will judge them.
- Romans 5:1So we see that God has accepted us as right because we believe in him. As a result, we are friends with God, because of what our Lord Jesus Christ has done for us.
- Job 14:3I am only a human like that, so why do you watch me so carefully? Why do you want to bring me into a court to judge me?
- Psalms 51:5Yes, even from the day I was born I have done bad things. I have always been guilty of sin.
- Zechariah 13:1‘On that day, water will start to pour from a fountain for King David's descendants and Jerusalem's people. It will make them clean from their sins and the dirty things that they have done.’
- Ephesians 2:3At one time, all of us lived like those people. We did whatever bad things our bodies wanted to do. If our thoughts made us want to do something, we did it. Because we were like that, God was angry with us. He should have punished us, just like everyone else.
- 1 Corinthians 6:11At one time, some of you were people like that. But God has now made you clean and pure, so that you belong to him. You have become right with God. Our God has done this with the power of his Spirit because you believe in the Lord Jesus Christ.
- 1 John 1:9Instead, we should agree that we have done wrong things and tell that to God. Then God will forgive us for our sins. He always does what he has promised to do. He always does what is right. He will forgive us and he will make us clean again, whatever bad things we may have done.
- Revelation 1:5Jesus Christ will also help you. He always speaks a true message. He is the first person who became alive again after death. He rules the kings of the earth. Jesus loves us and he died for us. That is how he made us free. Because of Jesus, God will not punish us for the bad things that we have done.
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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