Job 25:4 - Exposition

How then can man be justified with God? If God's creatures have no brightness of their own, and, when they shine, shine only with a reflected radiance, then certainly can no man be justified by his own merits. "All have sinned, and come short of the glory of God" ( Romans 3:23 ). Or how can he be clean that is born of a woman! (comp. Job 14:4 , "Who shall bring a clean thing out of an unclean? Not one;" and the comment ad loc. ) .