Mark Dunagan Commentaries
Job 25:4
Once again the theme is introduced (Job 4:17-18; Job 15:14-16), that man cannot possibly be pure in God's sight.
Once again the theme is introduced (Job 4:17-18; Job 15:14-16), that man cannot possibly be pure in God's sight.
Verse Job 25:4. _HOW 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 highe...
HOW THEN CAN MAN BE JUSTIFIED WITH GOD? - see Job 4:17; Job 15:15. 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 show...
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...
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...
MAN. mortal man. Hebrew. _'enosh_. App-14. GOD. Hebrew El. App-4. CLEAN. pure....
Such is the Majesty and the universal power of God. How then should a man be righteous before Him? _be justified with God_ i. e. be just or righteous before God; comp. Job 4:17 _seq_., Job 14:1; Job...
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...
_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...
25:4 man (a-4) _ Enosh_ . see Psalms 8:4 ....
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...
JUSTIFIED WITH GOD] RM 'just before God'; a rebuke to Job's presumption: cp. Job 4:17; Job 15:14. 5A. RV 'Behold, even the moon hath no brightness'; i.e. in the presence of God's glory. With this cha...
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...
Bildad repeated the ideas in Eliphaz’s first speech (Job 4:17-19). Bildad was right that every person does wrong things against God (Romans 3:23). But Bildad did not say that God wants to forgive us ...
וּ מַה ־יִּצְדַּ֣ק אֱנֹ֣ושׁ עִם ־אֵ֑ל וּ
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...
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...
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...
How then can man (c) be justified with God? or how can he be clean [that is] born of a woman? (c) That is, be just in respect to God?...
_Clean. Job had used a similar expression, as well as Eliphaz, chap. iv. 17., and xiv. 4., and xv. 15. The holy man did not assert that he was free from sin, but only that God did not punish him (Calm...
(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...
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...
HOW THEN CAN MAN BE JUSTIFIED WITH GOD?] Since he sees all his ways and works, his secret as well as open sins; either be more just than he, as Eliphaz expresses it, Job 4:17; which no man in his sens...
How then can man be justified with God? or how can he be clean [that is] born of a woman? Ver. 4. _How then can man be justified with God?_] _Homo frivolus,_ so the Tygurines translate. How can frivo...
_How then can man be justified with God?_ That is, before God's tribunal, to which thou dost so boldly appeal. Thou mayest plead thy cause with thy fellow-worms, as we are, and expect to be justified;...
How, then, can man be justified with God? How could any mortal hope to vindicate himself in God's sight? OR HOW CAN HE BE CLEAN THAT IS BORN OF A WOMAN? It is impossible for any man to contend with th...
BILDAD REBUKES JOB AGAIN. Since Job had asserted his innocence in such emphatic terms, Bildad believed it incumbent upon him to reprove him, chiefly in two propositions, namely, that man cannot argue...
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...
MAN: the word signifies man that is miserable, which supposeth him to be sinful; and that such a creature should quarrel with that dominion of God, to which the sinless, and happy, and glorious angels...
Job 25:4 can H582 righteous H6663 (H8799) God H410 pure H2135 (H8799) born H3205 (H8803) woman...
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...
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...
_How then can man be Justified with God?_ ON JUSTIFICATION I. What justification is. The being accounted righteous though we are not so. When brought into a justified state we are treated as if we we...
_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...
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...
JOB—NOTE ON JOB 25:4 HOW THEN CAN MAN BE IN THE RIGHT BEFORE GOD? This question is repeated several times by Job and his friends in slightly different forms (Job 4:17;...
_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...
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...
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...
1 Corinthians 6:11; 1 John 1:9; Ephesians 2:3; Job 14:3; Job 14:4;...
Man — The word signifies man that is miserable, which supposes him to be sinful; and shall such a creature quarrel with that dominion of God, to which the sinless, and happy, and glorious angels submi...