New King James Version
Job 25:3
3Is there any number to His armies? Upon whom does His light not rise?
Job 25:3 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Is there any number of his armies? and upon whom doth not his light arise?
- New International Version (NIV)Can his forces be numbered? On whom does his light not rise?
- English Standard Version (ESV)Is there any number to his armies? Upon whom does his light not arise?
- New Living Translation (NLT)Who is able to count his heavenly army? Doesn’t his light shine on all the earth?
Context of Job 25:3
1Then Bildad the Shuhite answered and said: 2“Dominion and fear belong to Him; He makes peace in His high places. Is there any number to His armies? Upon whom does His light not rise? 4How then can man be righteous before God? Or how can he be pure who is born of a woman? 5If even the moon does not shine, And the stars are not pure in His sight,
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הֲיֵ֣שׁ מִ֭סְפָּר לִגְדוּדָ֑יו וְעַל־מִ֝֗י לֹא־יָק֥וּם אוֹרֵֽהוּ׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Job 25:3
- Psalms 103:20Bless the Lord, you His angels, Who excel in strength, who do His word, Heeding the voice of His word.
- Psalms 148:2Praise Him, all His angels; Praise Him, all His hosts!
- Isaiah 40:26Lift up your eyes on high, And see who has created these things, Who brings out their host by number; He calls them all by name, By the greatness of His might And the strength of His power; Not one is missing.
- Daniel 7:10A fiery stream issued And came forth from before Him. A thousand thousands ministered to Him; Ten thousand times ten thousand stood before Him. The court was seated, And the books were opened.
- Matthew 26:53Or do you think that I cannot now pray to My Father, and He will provide Me with more than twelve legions of angels?
- Revelation 5:11Then I looked, and I heard the voice of many angels around the throne, the living creatures, and the elders; and the number of them was ten thousand times ten thousand, and thousands of thousands,
- Job 38:12“Have you commanded the morning since your days began, And caused the dawn to know its place,
- Genesis 1:3Then God said, “Let there be light”; and there was light.
- Psalms 19:4Their line has gone out through all the earth, And their words to the end of the world. In them He has set a tabernacle for the sun,
- Matthew 5:45that you may be sons of your Father in heaven; for He makes His sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.
- John 1:4In Him was life, and the life was the light of men.
- James 1:17Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and comes down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow of turning.
Commentaries on Job 25:3
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 3Is there any number of his armies? - He has troops innumerable; he can serve himself of all his creatures; every thing may be a means of help or destruction, according to his Divine will. When he purposes to save, none can destroy; and when he is determined to destroy, none can save. It is vain to trust in his creatures against himself. Upon whom doth not his light arise? - That is, his providence rules over all; he is universal Lord; he causes his sun to…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 3Is there any number of his armies? - The armies of heaven; or the hosts of angelic beings, which are often represented as arranged or marshalled into armies; see the notes at Isaiah 1:9. The word which is used here is not the common one which is rendered “hosts,” (צבא tsâbâ' ), but is גדוּד gedûd which means properly a troop, band, or army. It may here mean either the constellations often represented as the army which God marshals and commands, or it…Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 33. armies--angels and stars (Is 40:26; Jr 33:22; Ge 15:5; "countless," Da 7:10). his light--(Jas 1:17).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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