Job 25:5

3 Can His troops be numbered? On whom does His light not rise?

4 How then can a man be just before God? How can one born of woman be pure?

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
If even the moon does not shine, and the stars are not pure in His sight,
KJV
Behold even to the moon, and it shineth not; yea, the stars are not pure in his sight.
WEB
Behold, even the moon has no brightness, and the stars are not pure in his sight;
ASV
Behold, even the moon hath no brightness, And the stars are not pure in his sight:
DARBY
Lo, even the moon is not bright; and the stars are not pure in his sight:
BLB
Behold, even the moon does not shine, and the stars are not pure in His eyes.
ÅB
Selv månen skinner ikke klart, og stjernene er ikke rene i hans øyne,
OTB
Hvis selv månen mangler lysstyrke
og stjernene ikke er rene i Hans øyne,
B1930
Selv månen skinner ikke klart, og stjernene er ikke rene i hans øine,

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

  • Isaiah 60:19–20

    No longer will the sun be your light by day, nor the brightness of the moon shine on your night; for the LORD will be your everlasting light, and your God will be your splendor.

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  • Job 15:15

    If God puts no trust in His holy ones, if even the heavens are not pure in His eyes,

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  • Job 31:26

    if I have beheld the sun in its radiance or the moon moving in splendor,

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  • Isaiah 24:23

    The moon will be confounded and the sun will be ashamed; for the LORD of Hosts will reign on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem, and before His elders with great glory.

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  • 2 Corinthians 3:10

    Indeed, what was once glorious has no glory now in comparison to the glory that surpasses it.

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