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.

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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.

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  • Psalms 22:6

    But I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised of the people.

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  • Job 7:17

    What is man, that thou shouldest magnify him? and that thou shouldest set thine heart upon him?

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  • Job 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?

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  • Genesis 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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