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Job 25:4

Job 25:4
How then can man be justified with God? or how can he be clean that is born of a woman?

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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

Gill's Exposition

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…

Presbyterian pastor, 1798–1870

Barnes' Notes

How then can man be justified with God? - see Job 4:17-18; Job 15:15-16. Instead of meeting the facts to which Job had appealed, all that Bildad could now do was to repeat what had been said before.…

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

Job 25:1-6

Bildad is to be commended here for two things: - 1. For speaking no more on the subject about which Job and he differed. Perhaps he began to think Job was in the right, and then it was justice to say…

Academic commentary, 1882–1921

Cambridge Bible

Job 25:4-5

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…