2Dominion and fear are with him, he makethpeace in his high places.
3 Is there any number of his armies? and upon whom doth not his lightarise?
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 man, that is a worm? and the son of man, which is a worm?
World Behind This Chapter
Explore the people, places, language, history, and material world connected to Job 25.
QUESTIONS WORTH EXPLORING
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Why is Bildad's final speech only six verses?
The abrupt brevity and absence of a third speech from Zophar make the final dialogue cycle structurally irregular. Scholars debate whether material has been lost, rearranged, or intentionally allowed to collapse.
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What are the 'hosts' in heaven?
The term can refer broadly to heavenly armies or celestial beings. Bildad uses the image to emphasize divine dominion and overwhelming scale.
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Why mention the moon and stars?
Even luminous heavenly bodies appear dim beside divine holiness in Bildad's rhetoric. The scale comparison intensifies his point about human smallness.
⌘Research PathsCurated links for exploring this chapter3
Verse-specific Hebrew interlinear for Bildad’s claim that even the moon does not shine and the stars are not pure before God. Useful for studying cosmic imagery and purity language.
Official museum record for a Late Babylonian astronomical tablet listing star risings, heavenly divisions, and constellations in the path of the moon. Useful comparative context for Bildad’s moon-and-stars imagery in Job 25:5; not evidence for Job’s setting or date.
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