Job 25:4
2 Dominion and fear are with him, he maketh peace in his high places.
3 Is there any number of his armies? and upon whom doth not his light arise?
How then can man be justified with God? or how can he be clean that is born of a woman?
5 Behold even to the moon, and it shineth not; yea, the stars are not pure in his sight.
6 How much less man, that is a worm? and the son of man, which is 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 being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ:
Read in contextPsalms 130:3
If thou, LORD, shouldest mark iniquities, O Lord, who shall stand?
Read in contextJob 9:2
I know it is so of a truth: but how should man be just with God?
Read in contextJob 4:17–19
Shall mortal man be more just than God? shall a man be more pure than his maker?
Read in contextJob 15:14–16
What is man, that he should be clean? and he which is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
Read in contextPsalms 143:2
And enter not into judgment with thy servant: for in thy sight shall no man living be justified.
Read in contextRevelation 1:5
And from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, and the first begotten of the dead, and the prince of the kings of the earth. Unto him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood,
Read in contextPsalms 51:5
Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me.
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