Job 25:5 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Behold even to the moon, and it shineth not; yea, the stars are not pure in his sight. ”

• Job 25:5 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  Behold even to the moon, and it shineth not - Or, behold even the moon shineth not. That is, in comparison with God it is dark and obscure. The idea is, that the most beautiful and glorious objec...

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• Job 25:5 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  Behold even to the moon, and it shineth not; yea, (d) the stars are not pure in his sight. (d) If God shows his power, the moon and stars cannot have the light which is given to them, much less can...

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• Job 25:5 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  Job 25-27. offer a difficult critical problem. The phenomena which excite attention are these: ( a ) Bildad's speech is unusually short; ( b ) Job's reply contains a section ( Job 26:5-14 ) very li...

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• Job 25:5 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  Behold. Figure of speech Asterismos . App-6.

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• Job 25:5 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  Behold even to the moon, and it shineth not; yea, the stars are not pure in his sight. Behold even to the moon, and it shineth not - It is continually changing its appearance. It never appears twice...

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• Job 25:5 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said, He tries to show Job's rashness ( Job 23:3 ), by arguments borrowed from Eliphaz ( Job 15:15 ), with which cf. Job 11:17 . Verse 2. Power and terro...

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• Job 25:5 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  Bildad's Last Speech He 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...

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• Job 25:5 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  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.

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• Job 25:5 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  XXI. THE DOMINION AND THE BRIGHTNESS Job 25:1-6 BILDAD SPEAKS THE argument of the last chapter proceeded entirely on the general aspect of the question whether the evil are punished in propor...

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• Job 25:5 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  How Can Man Be Just before God? Job 25:1-6 Bildad's closing speech adds little to the controversy. He suggests simply that Job's vindications of himself do not imply that he is righteous before...

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• Job 25:5 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  The answer of Bildad is characterized by its brevity, and by the fact that he did not set himself to argue the matter with Job. It is a manifest weakening in the controversy on the side of the friend...

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• Job 25:5 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  (4) How then can man be justified with God? or how can he be clean that is born of a woman? (5) Behold even to the moon, and it shineth not; yea, the stars are not pure in his sight. (6) How much les...

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• Job 25:5 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  Behold, even to the moon ,.... If all things that are glorious and illustrious in the lower world, and which are between that and the region of the moon, are beheld; or all from the seat of the Divi...

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• Job 25:5 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  Behold even to the moon, and it shineth not; yea, the stars are not pure in his sight. Ver. 5. Behold even to the moon, and it shineth not ] i.e. Either descend in thy thoughts, from the highest...

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• Job 25:5 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Behold, even to the moon, and it shineth not The moon, though bright and glorious, if compared with the divine majesty, is without any lustre or glory. By his naming the moon, and thence proceeding...

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• Job 25:5 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  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 impor...

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• Job 25:5 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  God Exalted and Man Abased. B. C. 1520.       1 Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,  ...

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• Job 25:5 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  The moon, though a bright and glorious creature, Job 31:26 Song of Solomon 6:10 , if compared with the splendour of the Divine majesty, is but as a dark and earthy lump, without any lustre or gl...

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• Job 25:5 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  THIRD SPEECH OF BILDAD THE SHUHITE His speech either a very abortive one, or it includes, as some think, the following chapter from the fifth verse to the end, the first four verses of that chap...

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• Job 25:5 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Job 25:4 . How can man be justified with God? Bildad asks a question which he himself could not answer; but we have the proper answer from the living oracle, Job 42:8 . “Take seven bullocks, and...

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• Job 25:5 - The Biblical Illustrator

  Dominion and fear are with Him. Ideas of God and man I. Most exalted ideas of god. He speaks of Him-- 1. As the head of all authority. “Dominion and fear are with Him.” 2. As the maintain...

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• Job 25:5 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION Job 25:1-18 Far from accepting Job's challenge, and grappling with the difficulty involved in the frequent, if not universal, prosperity of the wicked. Bildad, in his weak reply,...

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• Job 25:5 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  Bildad Rebukes Job Again. Since Job had asserted his innocence in such emphatic terms, Bildad believed it incumbent upon him to reprove him, chiefly in two propositions, namely, that man cannot ar...

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• Job 25:5 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  2 Corinthians 3:10 ; Isaiah 24:23 ; Isaiah 60:19 ; Isaiah 60:20

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• Job 25:5 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  Moon — The moon, tho' bright and glorious, if compared with the Divine Majesty, is without any lustre or glory. By naming the moon, and thence proceeding to the stars, the sun is also included.

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