Job 25:4
2 “Dominion and awe belong to God; He establishes harmony in the heights of heaven.
3 Can His troops be numbered? On whom does His light not rise?
How then can a man be just before God? How can one born of woman be pure?
5 If even the moon does not shine, and the stars are not pure in His sight,
6 how much less man, who is but a maggot, and the son of man, who is but a worm!”
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- How then can a man be just before God? How can one born of woman be pure?
- KJV
- How then can man be justified with God? or how can he be clean that is born of a woman?
- WEB
- How then can man be just with God? Or how can he who is born of a woman be clean?
- ASV
- How then can man be just with God? Or how can he be clean that is born of a woman?
- DARBY
- And how should man be just with God? Or how should he be clean that is born of a woman?
- BLB
- So how can a man be righteous with God? Or what can be pure [that] is born of a woman?
- ÅB
- Hvordan skulle da et menneske være rettferdig for Gud eller en som er født av en kvinne, være ren?
- OTB
- Hvordan kan da et menneske være rettferdig for Gud?
Hvordan kan en som er født av en kvinne være ren? - B1930
- Hvorledes skulde da et menneske være rettferdig for Gud eller en som er født av en kvinne, være ren?
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Romans 5:1
Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ,
Read in contextPsalms 130:3
If You, O LORD, kept track of iniquities, then who, O Lord, could stand?
Read in contextJob 9:2
“Yes, I know that it is so, but how can a mortal be righteous before God?
Read in contextJob 4:17–19
‘Can a mortal be more righteous than God, or a man more pure than his Maker?
Read in contextJob 15:14–16
What is man, that he should be pure, or one born of woman, that he should be righteous?
Read in contextPsalms 143:2
Do not bring Your servant into judgment, for no one alive is righteous before You.
Read in contextRevelation 1:5
and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn from the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To Him who loves us and has released us from our sins by His blood,
Read in contextPsalms 51:5
Surely I was brought forth in iniquity; I was sinful when my mother conceived me.
Read in context