Old Testament
Job 25
Overview
Bildad delivers the shortest speech in the book — just six verses — and it is essentially his last word. He exalts God's terrifying majesty and dominion, marvels that even the moon and stars are not pure in God's sight, and asks how any human, a mere "maggot" and "worm," could ever be righteous before such a God. The brevity signals that the friends have run out of arguments; they can only repeat the theme of human worthlessness without engaging Job's actual case.
1Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,
2Dominion and fear are with him, he maketh peace in his high places.
3Is there any number of his armies? and upon whom doth not his light arise?
4How then can man be justified with God? or how can he be clean that is born of a woman?
5Behold even to the moon, and it shineth not; yea, the stars are not pure in his sight.
6How much less man, that is a worm? and the son of man, which is a worm?