Old Testament
Job 25
Overview
Bildad delivers the shortest speech in the book — just six verses — and it is essentially his last word. He exalts God's terrifying majesty and dominion, marvels that even the moon and stars are not pure in God's sight, and asks how any human, a mere "maggot" and "worm," could ever be righteous before such a God. The brevity signals that the friends have run out of arguments; they can only repeat the theme of human worthlessness without engaging Job's actual case.
1Then Bildad the Shuhite answered,
2“Dominion and fear are with him. He makes peace in his high places.
3Can his armies be counted? On whom does his light not arise?
4How then can man be just with God? Or how can he who is born of a woman be clean?
5Behold, even the moon has no brightness, and the stars are not pure in his sight;
6How much less man, who is a worm, and the son of man, who is a worm!”