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.
Read in contextJob 15:15
If God puts no trust in His holy ones, if even the heavens are not pure in His eyes,
Read in contextJob 31:26
if I have beheld the sun in its radiance or the moon moving in splendor,
Read in contextIsaiah 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.
Read in context2 Corinthians 3:10
Indeed, what was once glorious has no glory now in comparison to the glory that surpasses it.
Read in context