Job 25:5
3 Is there any number of his armies? and upon whom doth not his light arise?
4 How then can man be justified with God? or how can he be clean that is born of a woman?
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
- 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
The sun shall be no more thy light by day; neither for brightness shall the moon give light unto thee: but the LORD shall be unto thee an everlasting light, and thy God thy glory.
Read in contextJob 15:15
Behold, he putteth no trust in his saints; yea, the heavens are not clean in his sight.
Read in contextJob 31:26
If I beheld the sun when it shined, or the moon walking in brightness;
Read in contextIsaiah 24:23
Then the moon shall be confounded, and the sun ashamed, when the LORD of hosts shall reign in mount Zion, and in Jerusalem, and before his ancients gloriously.
Read in context2 Corinthians 3:10
For even that which was made glorious had no glory in this respect, by reason of the glory that excelleth.
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