New English Translation
Job 25:4
4How then can a human being be righteous before God? How can one 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“Dominion and awesome might belong to God; he establishes peace in his heights. 3Can his armies be numbered? On whom does his light not rise? How then can a human being be righteous before God? How can one born of a woman be pure? 5If even the moon is not bright, and the stars are not pure as far as he is concerned, 6how much less a mortal man, who is but a maggot – a son of man, 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“Is a mortal man righteous before God? Or a man pure before his Creator?
- Job 9:2“Truly, I know that this is so. But how can a human be just before God?
- Job 15:14What is man that he should be pure, or one born of woman, that he should be righteous?
- Psalms 130:3If you, O Lord, were to keep track of sins, O Lord, who could stand before you?
- Psalms 143:2Do not sit in judgment on your servant, for no one alive is innocent before you.
- Romans 3:19Now we know that whatever the law says, it says to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be silenced and the whole world may be held accountable to God.
- Romans 5:1Therefore, since we have been declared righteous by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ,
- Job 14:3Do you fix your eye on such a one? And do you bring me before you for judgment?
- Psalms 51:5Look, I was guilty of sin from birth, a sinner the moment my mother conceived me.
- Zechariah 13:1“In that day there will be a fountain opened up for the dynasty of David and the people of Jerusalem to cleanse them from sin and impurity.
- Ephesians 2:3among whom all of us also formerly lived out our lives in the cravings of our flesh, indulging the desires of the flesh and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath even as the rest…
- 1 Corinthians 6:11Some of you once lived this way. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.
- 1 John 1:9But if we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous, forgiving us our sins and cleansing us from all unrighteousness.
- Revelation 1:5and from Jesus Christ – the faithful witness, the firstborn from among the dead, the ruler over the kings of the earth. To the one who loves us and has set us free from our sins at the cost of his own 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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