Job 25:1-31:40

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Job 25:1-6

3. Bildad’s third speech ch. 25The brevity of this speech reflects the fact that Job’s companions were running out of arguments. Job’s responses were at least silencing them, if not convincing them.Bildad seems to have abandoned the earlier theme of the wicked person’s fate because of what Job had just pointed out. Instead, he merely emphasized the sinfulness and insignificance of all people, and God’s greatness. Perhaps he hoped Job would admit to being a sinner, since the whole human race is... read more

John Dummelow

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

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

L.M. Grant

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible - Job 25:1-6

BILDAD'S REPLY THE GREATNESS OF GOD (vv.1-3) The brevity of Bildad's reply is evidence that he had no answer to Job's predicament. He confines himself rather to fundamental facts that were important for all mankind, verses 1-3 dealing briefly with God's supremacy and power. "Dominion and fear belong to Him" (v.2). The greatness of His dominion is such as to inspire a wholesome fear in every creature. This was nothing new to Job, for he had insisted on this himself. "He makes peace in His... read more

James Gray

James Gray's Concise Bible Commentary - Job 25:1-6

THIRD SERIES OF THE DEBATE 1. With Eliphaz (chaps. 22-24) a. Speech of Eliphaz (chap. 22) b. Reply of Job (chaps. 23-24) 2. With Bildad (chaps. 25-26) a. Speech of Bildad (chap. 25) b. Reply of Job (chap. 26) 3. With Zophar (chaps. 27-31) a. Continuation of the reply of Job (chaps. 27-31) The last speech Eliphaz makes, chapter 22, is a grand effort to refute Job based upon the latter’s appeal to facts. There is more severity in it than he has shown before. He charges Job with cruelty,... read more

Joseph Parker

The People's Bible by Joseph Parker - Job 25:1-6

Quiet Resting-places Job 25-27 It is a curious speech with which Bildad winds up the animated colloquy between Job and his three friends. There is a streak of failure across the face of the speech, notwithstanding its dignity. Indeed, the dignity is somewhat against the speech. Bildad is as ignorant of the reality of the case in the peroration as he was in the exordium. If this is all that can be said at the close of such an intellectual and spiritual interview, then some of the parties have... read more

Robert Hawker

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Job 25:1

CONTENTS This chapter is but short, yet it contains precious truths. It forms the reply of Bildad to what Job had before said. It is not at all in reproof, but only an account of God's holiness, and the uncleanness of all created excellency in his view. read more

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