Job
Summary
Job Chapter 25 is the third and final speech of Bildad the Shuhite, and it is notably brief, suggesting that the friends have run out of arguments. Bildad focuses entirely on the majesty and holiness of God, asking how any mortal could ever be justified or "clean" before Him. He observes that even the moon and the stars are not pure in God's sight, so how much less man, whom he dismisses as a "maggot" and a "worm." This short speech marks the end of the friends' attempt to explain Job's suffering through their rigid doctrine of retribution.
Then Bildad the Shuhite replied:
"Dominion and awe belong to God; he establishes order in the heights of heaven."
"Can his troops be numbered? On whom does his light not rise?"
"How then can a mortal be righteous before God? How can one born of woman be pure?"
"If even the moon is not bright and the stars are not pure in his eyes,"
"how much less man, who is but a maggot, a son of man, who is only a worm!"