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 the greatest and best of men. Let us then wonder at the condescension of God, in taking such worms into covenant and communion with himself!
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
_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...
25:6 man, (a-4) _ Enosh_ . see Psalms 8:4 . worm, (b-6) Or 'maggot.' man, (c-11) _ Adam_ ....
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...
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...
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...
HOW MUCH LESS MAN... — Comp. Psalms 8:4; Psalms 22:6; Isaiah 41:14, &c....
אַ֭ף כִּֽי ־אֱנֹ֣ושׁ רִמָּ֑ה וּ בֶן ־אָ֝דָ֗ם
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...
(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...
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...
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 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...
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...
_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...
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 pow...
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...
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...
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...
Job 25:6 man H582 maggot H7415 son H1121 man H120 worm H8438 How much less - Job 4:19;...
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...
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...
_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...
_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...
Genesis 18:27; Isaiah 41:14; Job 4:19; Psalms 22:6...