Job 25:6
4 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.
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 much less man, who is but a maggot, and the son of man, who is but a worm!”
- KJV
- How much less man, that is a worm? and the son of man, which is a worm?
- WEB
- How much less man, who is a worm, and the son of man, who is a worm!”
- ASV
- How much less man, that is a worm! And the son of man, that is a worm!
- DARBY
- How much less man, a worm, and the son of man, a worm!
- BLB
- How much less a man—a maggot, and a son of man—a worm!”
- ÅB
- hvor meget mindre da mennesket, den makk, menneskebarnet, det kryp som det er.
- OTB
- hvor mye mindre et menneske, som er en makk,
og en menneskesønn, som er en orm!” - B1930
- hvor meget mindre da mennesket, den makk, menneskebarnet, det kryp som det er.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Isaiah 41:14
Fear not, thou worm Jacob, and ye men of Israel; I will help thee, saith the LORD, and thy redeemer, the Holy One of Israel.
Read in contextPsalms 22:6
But I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised of the people.
Read in contextJob 7:17
What is man, that thou shouldest magnify him? and that thou shouldest set thine heart upon him?
Read in contextJob 4:19
How much less in them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, which are crushed before the moth?
Read in contextGenesis 18:27
And Abraham answered and said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord, which am but dust and ashes:
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