“ How much less man, that is a worm? and the son of man, which is a worm? ”
How much less man - See Job 4:19 . Man is mentioned here as a worm; in Job 4:19 he is said to dwell in a house of clay and to be crushed before the moth. In both cases the design is to represe...
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...
How much less... ? Figure of speech Erotesis . App-6. worm. Hebrew. rimmah , put by Figure of speech Metonymy (of Adjunct), App-6, for that which is corruptible. man. Hebrew. 'adam . App...
How much less man, that is a worm? and the son of man, which is a worm? How much less man, that is a worm? - Or as the Targum - "How much more man, who in his life is a reptile; and the son of ma...
How much less man, that is a worm, &c.— How much less mortal man, who is corruption? and the son of man, who is a worm ? The Alexandrian edition of the LXX reads the 5th verse, He saith to th...
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...
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...
How much less man... — Comp. Psalms 8:4 ; Psalms 22:6 ; Isaiah 41:14 , &c.
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...
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...
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...
(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...
How much less man, [that is] a worm ?.... Whose original is of the earth, dwells in it, and is supported by it, and creeps into it again; who is impure by nature and by practice, weak and impotent t...
How much less man, [that is] a worm? and the son of man, [which is] a worm? Ver. 6. How much less man, that is a worm? ] He saith not, as a worm, but a worm itself, so Psalms 22:6 , "I am a worm,...
How much less man, that is a worm Mean, vile, and impotent; proceeding from corruption, and returning to it. And the son of man For miserable man , in the last clause, he here puts the son of...
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...
God Exalted and Man Abased. B. C. 1520. 1 Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said, ...
A worm, to wit, mean, and vile, and impotent; proceeding from corruption, and returning to it; and withal filthy and loathsome, and so every way a very unfit person to appear before the high and ho...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
Genesis 18:27 ; Isaiah 41:14 ; Job 4:19 ; Psalms 22:6
Worm — Mean, and vile, and impotent; proceeding from corruption, and returning to it. The son — For miserable man in the last branch he here puts the son of any man, to shew that this is true even...