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Kretzmann's Popular Commentary

Job 25:6

How much less man, that is a worm, mortal man being like a maggot given to corruption in God's sight, and the son of man, which is a worm, weak and groveling in the dust before the Lord's almighty power! So Bildad emphasized the general sinfulness of man, his statements implying the admonition that Job should now confess with proper humility. It is so much easier to reprove others than to take a proper inventory of one's own weaknesses and sins.

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Job 25:6. _HOW MUCH LESS MAN_, THAT IS _A WORM?_] Or as the _Targum_. - "How much more man, who in his life is a reptile; and the son of man, who in his death is a worm." Almost all the _versio...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    HOW MUCH LESS MAN - See Job 4:19. Man is mentioned here as a worm; in Job 4:19 he is said to dwell in a house of clay and to be crushed before the moth. In both cases the design is to represent him as...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER 25 THE THIRD ADDRESS OF BILDAD _ 1. What God is (Job 25:1)_ 2. What man is (Job 25:4) Job 25:1. Bildad's arguments are exhausted. He has reached the end of his resources and Zophar does not...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    JOB 25-27. offer a difficult critical problem. The phenomena which excite attention are these: (_a_) Bildad's speech is unusually short; (_b_) Job's reply contains a section (Job 26:5) very like Bilda...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    HOW MUCH LESS... ? Figure of speech _Erotesis_. App-6. WORM. Hebrew. _rimmah_, put by Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of Adjunct), App-6, for that which is corruptible. MAN. Hebrew. _'adam_. App-14. W...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    HOW MUCH LESS MAN, THAT IS A WORM, &C.— _How much less mortal man, who is corruption? and the son of man, who is a worm_? The Alexandrian edition of the LXX reads the 5th verse, _He saith to the sun,...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    2. Man is not pure before God. (Job 25:5-6) TEXT 25:5, 6 5 BEHOLD, EVEN THE MOON HATH NO BRIGHTNESS, And the stars are not pure in his sight: 6 How much less man, that is a worm! And the son of m...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _THEN ANSWERED BILDAD THE SHUHITE, AND SAID,_ He tries to show Job's rashness (Job 23:3), by arguments borrowed from Eliphaz (Job 15:15), with which cf. Job 11:17. Verse 2. Power and terror - i:e., t...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    25:6 man, (a-4) _ Enosh_ . see Psalms 8:4 . worm, (b-6) Or 'maggot.' man, (c-11) _ Adam_ ....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    BILDAD'S LAST SPEECH He ignores Job's questionings respecting the justice of God's rule, but declares His perfection and majesty, and the imperfection of all created things, repeating the theme of th...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    JOB, A SERVANT OF GOD Job _KEITH SIMONS_ Words in boxes (except for words in brackets) are from the Bible. This commentary has been through Advanced Checking. CHAPTER 25 BILDAD INTERRUPTS GOD I...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    These words are not correct. God appointed men and women to rule the animals. God made them in the ‘image of God’ (Genesis 1:26). This is, God wanted people to share his special character. So Bildad...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    HOW MUCH LESS MAN... — Comp. Psalms 8:4; Psalms 22:6; Isaiah 41:14, &c....

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    אַ֭ף כִּֽי ־אֱנֹ֣ושׁ רִמָּ֑ה וּ בֶן ־אָ֝דָ֗ם

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    XXI. THE DOMINION AND THE BRIGHTNESS Job 25:1 BILDAD SPEAKS THE argument of the last chapter proceeded entirely on the general aspect of the question whether the evil are punished in proportion to...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    HOW CAN MAN BE JUST BEFORE GOD? Job 25:1 Bildad's closing speech adds little to the controversy. He suggests simply that Job's vindications of himself do not imply that he is righteous before God, a...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    The answer of Bildad is characterized by its brevity, and by the fact that he did not set himself to argue the matter with Job. It is a manifest weakening in the controversy on the side of the friends...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    REFLECTIONS PAUSE, my soul, over this short but sweet chapter; for very great and important are the improvements, which, under GOD the HOLY GHOST, may be gathered out of it. And first, mark in strong...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    (4) How then can man be justified with God? or how can he be clean that is born of a woman? (5) Behold even to the moon, and it shineth not; yea, the stars are not pure in his sight. (6) How much less...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 4 THROUGH 31. As to the friends of Job, they do not call for any extended remarks. They urge the doctrine that God's earthly government is a full measure and...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    HOW MUCH LESS MAN, [THAT IS] A WORM?.... Whose original is of the earth, dwells in it, and is supported by it, and creeps into it again; who is impure by nature and by practice, weak and impotent to d...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    How much less man, [that is] a worm? and the son of man, [which is] a worm? Ver. 6. _How much less man, that is a worm?_] He saith not, as a worm, but a worm itself, so Psalms 22:6, "I am a worm, and...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _How much less man, that is a worm_ Mean, vile, and impotent; proceeding from corruption, and returning to it. _And the son of man_ For _miserable man_, in the last clause, he here puts _the son of_ a...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    BILDAD'S REPLY THE GREATNESS OF GOD (vv.1-3) The brevity of Bildad's reply is evidence that he had no answer to Job's predicament. He confines himself rather to fundamental facts that were important...

  • Mark Dunagan Commentaries

    By contrast, man is far smaller than the moon or the stars, and is like. maggot or worm in God's sight. This entire speech seems designed to humiliate Job. Therefore, no man should ever be so brash to...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    A WORM, to wit, mean, and vile, and impotent; proceeding from corruption, and returning to it; and withal filthy and loathsome, and so every way a very unfit person to appear before the high and holy...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Job 25:6 man H582 maggot H7415 son H1121 man H120 worm H8438 How much less - Job 4:19;...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Bildad's third discourse on Job's case. CHARACTERS: God, Bildad, Job. CONCLUSION: Man cannot, in himself, be justified before God for he has no merit of his own to extenuate his guilt. KE...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Job 25:4. _How can man be justified with God?_ Bildad asks a question which he himself could not answer; but we have the proper answer from the living oracle, Job 42:8. “Take seven bullocks, and offer...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    MAN, THAT IS A WORM-THE WORM 1. With peculiar emphasis we may say of the worm, it is “of the earth earthy.” Springing out of it, boring into it, and feeding on it, or on that which grows upon it,--it...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Dominion and fear are with Him._ IDEAS OF GOD AND MAN I. Most exalted ideas of god. He speaks of Him-- 1. As the head of all authority. “Dominion and fear are with Him.” 2. As the maintainer of a...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    JOB—NOTE ON JOB 25:1 Bildad’s words represent the final speech of the three friends. The friends have argued that their theological understanding and application represent God’s perspective. They have...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    _THIRD SPEECH OF BILDAD THE SHUHITE_ His speech either a very abortive one, or it includes, as some think, the following chapter from the fifth verse to the end, the first four verses of that chapter...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION JOB 25:1 Far from accepting Job's challenge, and grappling with the difficulty involved in the frequent, if not universal, prosperity of the wicked. Bildad, in his weak reply, entirely avo...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said [concerning God], Dominion and fear are with him, he makes peace in his high places. Is there any number of his armies? and upon whom doth not his light aris...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Genesis 18:27; Isaiah 41:14; Job 4:19; Psalms 22:6...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Worm — Mean, and vile, and impotent; proceeding from corruption, and returning to it. The son — For miserable man in the last branch he here puts the son of any man, to shew that this is true even of...

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