JobChapter 25

Job Chapter 25: Meaning

Bildad gives his shortest speech, saying no person can ever be good enough in God's sight.

Summary

Bildad speaks one last time, but he doesn't say much. He points out how great and powerful God is. He says God rules over everything, and even his armies of angels are too many to count.

Bildad then asks how any person could be right before such a great God. He says even the moon and stars are not bright enough compared to God's purity. If that is true, then how could any human being, who is like a worm, ever be clean or good before God?

This is Bildad's last speech in the book. He has run out of things to say. He is trying to prove that Job must have done something wrong because no person is perfect before God.

Historical Context

This is the shortest speech in all of Job, just six verses. Bildad and his friends have been arguing with Job for many chapters. By this point, they seem to be running out of arguments.

Bildad's main point, that no human can be righteous before God, was also made earlier in the book by his friend Eliphaz. This was a common idea among wise men in the ancient world: God is so holy and great that no person could ever measure up.