New American Standard Bible 2020
Job 25:4
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“Dominion and awe belong to Him Who makes peace in His heights. 3Is there any number to His troops? And upon whom does His light not rise? How then can mankind be righteous with God? Or how can anyone who is born of woman be pure? 5If even the moon has no brightness And the stars are not pure in His sight, 6How much less man, that maggot, And a son of man, that 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 4:17‘Can mankind be righteous before God? Can a man be pure before his Maker?
- Job 9:2“In truth I know that this is so; But how can a person be in the right with God?
- Job 15:14What is man, that he would be pure, Or he who is born of a woman, that he would be righteous?
- Psalms 130:3If You, Lord, were to keep account of guilty deeds, Lord, who could stand?
- Psalms 143:2And do not enter into judgment with Your servant, For no person living is righteous in Your sight.
- Romans 3:19Now we know that whatever the Law says, it speaks to those who are under the Law, so that every mouth may be closed and all the world may become accountable to God;
- Romans 5:1Therefore, having been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ,
- Job 14:3You also open Your eyes on him And bring him into judgment with Yourself.
- Psalms 51:5Behold, I was brought forth in guilt, And in sin my mother conceived me.
- Zechariah 13:1“On that day a fountain will be opened for the house of David and for the inhabitants of Jerusalem, for sin and for defilement.
- Ephesians 2:3Among them we too all previously lived in the lusts of our flesh, indulging the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, just as the rest.
- 1 Corinthians 6:11Such were some of you; but you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you 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, so that He will forgive us our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
- Revelation 1:5and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To Him who loves us and released 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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