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Job 25:1-6

Job, a servant of God

Job

Keith Simons

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Chapter 25

Bildad interrupts

God is great!

v1 Bildad, who belonged to the people called Shuhites, answered. He said:

v2 God is the greatest ruler. You should be afraid of him. He causes heaven to be at peace. v3 You cannot count his armies. God made the light, so he sees everyone.

v4 God does not imagine that any person is good. He knows that nobody is innocent. v5 The moon does not seem bright to God. He can even see that the stars are not perfect.

v6 So, God thinks that a man is like a tiny animal in the soil. In fact, men are like the tiny animals that eat dead bodies in the grave.

Chapter 25

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    CHAPTER XXV _Bildad, the Shuhite, in an irregular speech, shows that God's_ _dominion is supreme, his armies innumerable, and his providence_ _extended over all_, 1-3; _that man cannot be justified...

  • 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

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  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    ANSWERED. concluded. See note on Job 4:1. BILDAD. See note on Job 2:11....

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    _BILDAD OBSERVES, THAT THE DOMINION OF GOD IS SUPREME; THAT HIS ARMIES ARE INNUMERABLE; AND THAT NO MAN CAN BE JUST, COMPARED WITH GOD._ _Before Christ 1645._ _JOB 25:1. THEN ANSWERED BILDAD_— The l...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    C. MANA LITTLE LOWER THAN THE ANGELS (Job 25:1-6) 1. Man cannot argue with God. (Job 25:1-4) TEXT 25:1-4 1 THEN ANSWERED BILDAD THE SHUHITE, AND SAID, 2 Dominion and fear are with him; He maketh...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    XXV. (1) THEN ANSWERED BILDAD. — Bildad attempts no formal reply to Job’s statements, he merely falls back upon the position twice assumed by Eliphaz before (Job 4:17; Job 15:14), and twice allowed al...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וַ֭ יַּעַן בִּלְדַּ֥ד הַ שֻּׁחִ֗י וַ יֹּאמַֽר

  • 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...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Answered. He directs his attack against Job's desiring to plead before God, and gives a wrong statement of his request, which he also attempts to refute, by urging the same inconclusive arguments as...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    (1) В¶ Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said, (2) Dominion and fear are with him, he maketh peace in his high places. (3) Is there any number of his armies? and upon whom doth not his light arise...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

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  • John Darby's Synopsis

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  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

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  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

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

    _Then answered Bildad_ Who makes the last weak effort against Job; and being unable to deny the truth of his assertions, but at the same time unwilling to give up the argument, shelters himself behind...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Then answered Bildad, the Shuhite, and said, speaking for the last time,...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

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  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

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  • Mark Dunagan Commentaries

    Bildad's brief speech of six verses reveals that he is running out of material!...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

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  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Job 25:1 Bildad H1085 Shuhite H7747 answered H6030 (H8799) said H559 (H8799)...

  • 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

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  • 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

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  • 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

    Job 2:11...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Answered — Not to that which Job spake last, but to that which seemed most reprovable in all his discourses; his censure of God's proceedings with him, and his desire of disputing the matter with him....

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