Job 25:1-6, Job 26:1-14 ESV

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Job 25:1-6

Bildad’s Last SpeechHe ignores Job’s questionings respecting the justice of God’s rule, but declares His perfection and majesty, and the imperfection of all created things, repeating the theme of the first cycle.2. With him] i.e. with God. He maketh peace, etc.] He keeps in order the hosts of heaven: cp. Isaiah 24:21; Daniel 10:13. 3. Armies] e.g. the angels and the elements. 4. Justified with God] RM ’just before God’; a rebuke to Job’s presumption: cp. Job 4:17; Job 15:14. 5a. RV ’Behold,... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Job 25:1

XXV.(1) Then answered Bildad.—Bildad attempts no formal reply to Job’s statements, he merely falls back upon the position twice assumed by Eliphaz before (Job 4:17-21; Job 15:14-16), and twice allowed also by Job (Job 14:4)—the impossibility of man being just with God—and therefore implies the impiety of Job in maintaining his righteousness before God. God, he says, is almighty, infinite, and absolute. How can any man contend with Him, or claim to be pure in His sight? This is the final speech... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Job 25:2

(2) Dominion and fear are with him.—He is absolute in sovereignty and terrible in power, so that even in His high places, and among His celestial hosts, He maintaineth peace and harmony. read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Job 25:3

(3) Is there any number of his armies?—He is also so glorious that He dispenses of His glory to His innumerable hosts of angels. Glorious as they are, they but reflect His glory; and what then must not that be? but if so, how utterly hopeless for man to think he can have any purity to compete with His, or that He will acknowledge to be such. Man also is by nature and birth unclean. (Comp. Psalms 51:5.) read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Job 25:5

(5) Even to the moon and stars, pure and chaste as their light is, they are not clean before Him (comp. Job 4:18), for the stars rise and set, and once in every month the moon hides her face. read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Job 25:6

(6) How much less man . . .—Comp. Psalms 8:4; Psalms 22:6; Isaiah 41:14, &c. read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Dictionary of Texts - Job 25:1-6

Justification Job 25:4 Conversion is a human act. It is the turning of the sinner in will and in act to his God. Justification is a Divine act, or rather a series of acts. Man turns, but it is only God who justifies. I. It is plain that when summoned to and standing before God's judgment-seat, no sorrow, however deep and real, for the past; no promise, however reliable, for the future, will suffice us. Plainly, then, the justification of the sinner is not an act of his own. It is God that... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Bible Commentary - Job 25:1-6

XXI.THE DOMINION AND THE BRIGHTNESSJob 25:1-6BILDAD SPEAKSTHE argument of the last chapter proceeded entirely on the general aspect of the question whether the evil are punished in proportion to their crimes. Job has met his friends so far as to place them in a great difficulty. They cannot assail him now as a sort of infidel. And yet what he has granted does not yield the main ground. They cannot deny his contrast between the two classes of evildoers nor refuse to admit that the strong... read more

Arno Clemens Gaebelein

Arno Gaebelein's Annotated Bible - Job 25:1-6

CHAPTER 25 The Third Address of Bildad 1. What God is (Job 25:1-3 ) 2. What man is (Job 25:4-6 ) Job 25:1-3 . Bildad’s arguments are exhausted. He has reached the end of his resources and Zophar does not open his lips again. Nevertheless Bildad’s final word is of great force and beauty, with deep meaning. He gives a picture of what God is. With Him dominion is reverence; He maketh peace in His high places. The number of His hosts who can count? And upon whom doth not His light arise?... read more

John Calvin

Geneva Study Bible - Job 25:2

25:2 {a} Dominion and fear [are] with him, he maketh peace in his high places.(a) His purpose is to prove that although God may try and afflict the just, yet soon after he sends prosperity, and because he did not do so to Job he concludes that he is wicked. read more

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Job 25:1-6

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Job 25:1

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Job 25:2

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Job 25:3

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Job 25:5

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Job 25:6

Expositor's Dictionary of Texts - Job 25:1-6

Expositor's Bible Commentary - Job 25:1-6

Arno Gaebelein's Annotated Bible - Job 25:1-6

Geneva Study Bible - Job 25:2

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