(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 less man, that is a worm? and the son of man, which is a worm?
How very sweet and just do these observations follow what went before? After having pointed to GOD'S glory, how proper the transition to man's meanness. What can be more suitable, or profitable, than, in the view of his holiness, to contrast our pollution. Behold, as the HOLY GHOST hath commanded in this scripture, behold the brightness of the heavenly bodies, those glorious lights above! Yet even these are not pure in the sight of their Maker. Compared to his glory, they do not shine. And what then must be man, in point of cleanness and purity in the sight of GOD! who is born of a woman, born in sin, and shapen in iniquity! Reader, have you ever considered this? have you ever laid it to heart? If so, surely your language will correspond to that of the prophet Isaiah, when the LORD favoured him with that glorious vision; the very view of which made him cry out, Woe is me, for I am undone. I am a man of unclean lips; and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips; for mine eyes have seen the king, the Lord of Hosts. Isaiah 6:5.