Job 25

Good News Translation

25 ^1-2God is powerful; all must stand in awe of him;
    he keeps his heavenly kingdom in peace.
³Can anyone count the angels who serve him?
Is there any place where God's light does not shine?
⁴Can anyone be righteous or pure in God's sight?
⁵In his eyes even the moon is not bright,
    or the stars pure.
⁶Then what about a human being, that worm, that insect?
    What is a human life worth in God's eyes?

Job 25

King James Version

25 Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,

²Dominion and fear are with him, he maketh peace in his high places.

³Is there any number of his armies? and upon whom doth not his light arise?

⁴How then can man be justified with God? or how can he be clean that is born of a woman?

⁵Behold even to the moon, and it shineth not; yea, the stars are not pure in his sight.

⁶How much less man, that is a worm? and the son of man, which is a worm?

Job 25

English Standard Version

Bildad Speaks: Man Cannot Be Righteous

25 Then ^(A)Bildad the Shuhite answered and said:

²“Dominion and fear are with God;^[a]
    he makes peace in his high heaven.
³Is there any number to his ^(B)armies?
    Upon whom does his ^(C)light not arise?
⁴How then can man be ^(D)in the right before God?
    How can he who is ^(E)born of woman be ^(F)pure?
⁵Behold, even the moon is not bright,
    and the stars are not pure in his eyes;
⁶^(G)how much less man, who is ^(H)a maggot,
    and ^(I)the son of man, who is a worm!”

Footnotes

Job 25:2 Hebrew him

Job 25

New International Version

Bildad

25 Then Bildad the Shuhite^(A) replied:

²“Dominion and awe belong to God;^(B)
    he establishes order in the heights of heaven.^(C)
³Can his forces be numbered?
    On whom does his light not rise?^(D)
⁴How then can a mortal be righteous before God?
    How can one born of woman be pure?^(E)
⁵If even the moon^(F) is not bright
    and the stars are not pure in his eyes,^(G)
⁶how much less a mortal, who is but a maggot—
    a human being,^(H) who is only a worm!”^(I)

Job 25

Wycliffe Bible

25 Then Bildad (the) Shuhite answered, and said,

²Power and dread is with him, that is, God, which maketh according in his high things. (Power and reverence is with God/Power and fear is with God, who maketh peace in all his high places.)

³Whether there is (a) number of his knights? (Can his host be counted?) and upon whom shineth not his light?

⁴Whether a man comparisoned to God may be justified, either a man born of a woman may appear clean? (Can a man be justified when compared to God, or can a man born of a woman ever be pure, or innocent?)

⁵Lo! also the moon shineth not, and [the] stars be not clean in his sight; (Lo! to his eyes, the moon shineth not, and the stars be not pure;)

⁶how much more man, that is rot, and the son of a man, that is a worm, is unclean, (and vile,) in comparison to God. (and so how much more a man, who is but rot, and the son of a man, who is but a worm, be unclean, and vile, when compared to God.)

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Job 25

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Job 25

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