God’s Word Translation
Job 25:4
4How can a person be righteous to God? How can anyone born of a woman 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“Authority and terror belong to God. He establishes peace in his high places. 3Is there any ⌞limit to the⌟ number of his troops? Is there anyone on whom his light does not rise? How can a person be righteous to God? How can anyone born of a woman be pure? 5Even the moon isn’t bright, and the stars aren’t pure in his sight. 6How much less pure is a mortal—who is only a maggot— a descendant of Adam—who is only a worm!”
Read all of Job 25Job 25:4 word by word
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‘Can ⌞any⌟ mortal be righteous to God? Can ⌞any⌟ human being be pure to his maker?’
- Job 9:2“Yes, I know that this is true. But how can a mortal be declared righteous to God?
- Job 15:14Why should a mortal be considered faultless or someone born of a woman be considered righteous?
- Psalms 130:3O Lord, who would be able to stand if you kept a record of sins?
- Psalms 143:2Do not take me to court for judgment, because there is no one alive who is righteous in your presence.
- Romans 3:19We know that whatever the Scriptures say applies to everyone under their influence, and no one can say a thing. The whole world is brought under the judgment of God.
- Romans 5:1Now that we have God’s approval by faith, we have peace with God because of what our Lord Jesus Christ has done.
- Job 14:3You observe this and call me to account to you.
- Psalms 51:5Indeed, I was born guilty. I was a sinner when my mother conceived me.
- Zechariah 13:1⌞The Lord declares,⌟ “On that day a fountain will be opened for David’s family and for those who live in Jerusalem to wash away ⌞their⌟ sin and stain.
- Ephesians 2:3All of us once lived among these people, and followed the desires of our corrupt nature. We did what our corrupt desires and thoughts wanted us to do. So, because of our nature, we deserved God’s anger just like everyone else.
- 1 Corinthians 6:11That’s what some of you were! But you have been washed and made holy, and you have received God’s approval in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God.
- 1 John 1:9God is faithful and reliable. If we confess our sins, he forgives them and cleanses us from everything we’ve done wrong.
- Revelation 1:5and from Jesus Christ, the witness, the trustworthy one, the first to come back to life, and the ruler over the kings of the earth. Glory and power forever and ever belong to the one who loves us and has freed 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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