# Job 25 📖: Bildad's Brief Reply [[📚 Explore the Bible Books]] [[-Job Overview]] | [[Job 24]] | [[Job 26]] > [!info] Table of Contents > [[#📜 Scripture Text (NET)]] > [[#📖 Verse-by-Verse Commentary]] > [[#🤔 Interesting Facts / Historical and Cultural Insights]] > [[#🧠 Chapter Summary]] > [[#✝️ Christ in This Chapter]] > [[#🔎 Key Principles / 🛟 Life Application]] > [[#💬 Discussion Questions]] > [[#✍️ Key Verses to Remember]] > [[#🔗 Related Passages/Cross Reference]] > [[#🙏 Devotional Reflection]] > [[#📂 Internal Notes]] ## 📜 Scripture Text (NET) (The NET Bible: New English Translation. Biblical Studies Press, 2005) ### Bildad’s Third Speech [[#Verse 01.]] Then Bildad the Shuhite answered: [[#Verse 02.]] “Dominion and awesome might belong to God; he establishes peace in his heights. [[#Verse 03.]] Can his armies be numbered? On whom does his light not rise? [[#Verse 04.]] How then can a human being be righteous before God? How can one born of a woman be pure? [[#Verse 05.]] If even the moon is not bright, and the stars are not pure as far as he is concerned, [[#Verse 06.]] how much less a mortal man, who is but a maggot— a son of man, who is only a worm!” ## 📖 Verse-by-Verse Commentary ###### Overall. ###### Verse 01. ###### Verse 02. ###### Verse 03. ###### Verse 04. ###### Verse 05. ###### Verse 06. ## 🤔 Interesting Facts / Historical and Cultural Insights 1. Job 25 is only six verses long, one of the shortest chapters in the Bible. 2. This is Bildad's third and final speech, and his last words in the book. 3. Bildad's question in 25:4 echoes Eliphaz (4:17; 15:14) and Job himself (9:2). 4. The troops or armies of God (25:3) likely refer to the heavenly hosts, as in the title "Lord of hosts." 5. Bildad says even the moon and stars are not pure in God's sight (25:5), similar to Eliphaz's claim about the heavens (15:15). 6. Bildad does not answer Job's argument that the wicked often prosper. He simply repeats God's greatness. 7. Bildad is called a Shuhite (2:11). Shuah was one of Abraham's sons by Keturah (Genesis 25:2), and Bildad may be from that line. 8. The word "worm" (25:6) is also used in Psalm 22:6, a psalm Jesus quoted from the cross (Matthew 27:46). 9. Zophar gives no third speech, so the friends' arguments seem to run out after this chapter. 10. Bildad's view of God is high, but his view of people leaves no room for God's grace. ## 🧠 Chapter Summary > [!note] 🌱 Still growing. This section is on its way. ## ✝️ Christ in This Chapter Christ is the answer to Bildad's question of how a person can be righteous before God (25:4). God is just and the One who justifies those who have faith in Jesus (Romans 3:26). ## 🔎 Key Principles / 🛟 Life Application > [!note] 🌱 Still growing. This section is on its way. ## 💬 Discussion Questions 1. Bildad asks how anyone born of a woman can be pure before God (25:4). How does the gospel answer that question? 2. Bildad describes God's power and countless armies (25:2-3). How can a big view of God both humble and comfort us? 3. Bildad compares people to maggots and worms (25:6). What is true about that, and what does it leave out about how God sees people made in His image? ## ✍️ Key Verses to Remember - 📖 verse 2: Dominion and awe belong to God, who makes peace in the heights of heaven. - 📖 verse 4: Bildad asks how a person can be righteous before God. - 📖 verse 6: Compared to God, mortal man is like a maggot or a worm. ## 🔗 Related Passages/Cross Reference - 🔗 [[Romans 03#Verse 23.|Romans 3:23-26]] - God justifies the one who has faith in Jesus. - 🔗 [[2 Corinthians 05#Verse 21.|2 Corinthians 5:21]] - We become the righteousness of God in Christ. - 🔗 [[Psalm 08#Verse 03.|Psalm 8:3-5]] - What is man that You think of him? - 🔗 [[Psalm 22#Verse 06.|Psalm 22:6]] - I am a worm and not a man. - 🔗 [[Job 09#Verse 02.|Job 9:2]] - How can a person be right before God? ## 🙏 Devotional Reflection 📝 SOAP: [[Job 25 - SOAP|Is Anyone Really Innocent?]] ## 📂 Internal Notes