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Texts -- Job 25:1-6 (NET)

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Bildad’s Third Speech
25:1 Then Bildad the Shuhite answered : 25:2 “Dominion and awesome might belong to God; he establishes peace in his heights . 25:3 Can his armies be numbered ? On whom does his light not rise ? 25:4 How then can a human being be righteous before God ? How can one born of a woman be pure ? 25:5 If even the moon is not bright , and the stars are not pure as far as he is concerned , 25:6 how much less a mortal man , who is but a maggot – a son of man , who is only a worm !”

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  • Ya Allahku, di Cah'yaMu [KJ.25]

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Expository Notes on the Bible (Constable)

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  • The writer composed the prologue and epilogue of this book in prose narrative and the main body (3:1-42:6) in poetry. The prologue and epilogue form a frame around the main emphasis of the revelation, the poetic section, and ...
  • The two soliloquies of Job (chs. 3 and 29-31) enclose three cycles of dialogue between Job and his three friends. Each cycle consists of speeches by Eliphaz, Bildad, and Zophar in that order interspersed with Job's reply to e...
  • In this melancholic lament Job bewailed the brevity of life (vv. 1-6), the finality of death (vv. 7-17), and the absence of hope (vv. 18-22)."Born of woman"(v. 1) reflects man's frailty since woman who bears him is frail. Ver...
  • The brevity of this speech reflects the fact that Job's companions were running out of arguments. Job's responses were at least silencing them if not convincing them.Bildad seems to have abandoned the earlier theme of the wic...
  • Job's long speech here contrasts strikingly with Bildad's short preceding speech (ch. 25).In the first of these two chapters Job addressed his remarks to Bildad's most recent comments. In the second he broadened his view to i...
  • "Chapter 26 is one of the grandest recitals in the whole book. It is excelled only by the Lord's speeches, as is fitting. It sounds well in Job's mouth, and ends the dialogue, like the first movement of a symphony, with great...
  • Elihu began by voicing his respect for Job's three friends (vv. 6-10). They were older than he, and for this reason he said he had refrained from speaking until now. However he had become convinced that advancing age does not...
  • In view of God's greatness and man's relative lowliness it was marvelous to the psalmist that God would entrust His creation to humankind.8:3-4 In view of the insignificance of mankind compared with the rest of creation, espe...
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