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How then can man be just with God? Or how can he who is born of a woman be clean?

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A Repeated Argument

Commentators note that Bildad is not offering a new argument but is repeating a point that has already been made. Albert Barnes suggests Bildad does this because he feels defeated by Job's reasoning and is falling back on a general, undisputed truth rather than addressing Job's specific claims about his own situation.

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Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes

On Job 25:4

18th Century

Theologian

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 a…

John Gill

John Gill

On Job 25:4

17th Century

Pastor

How then can man be justified with God ?
] Since he sees all his ways and works, his secret as well as open sins; ei…

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry

On Job 25:1–6

17th Century

Minister

Bildad sets aside the question about the prosperity of wicked men, but shows the infinite distance that exists between God and man. He presents to …