Suffering, protest, limited human knowledge, friendship, and encounter with the sovereign God.
1Then Bildad the Shuhite answered,
2“Dominion and fear are with him. He makes peace in his high places.
3Can his armies be counted? On whom does his light not arise?
4How then can man be just with God? Or how can he who is born of a woman be clean?
5Behold, even the moon has no brightness, and the stars are not pure in his sight;
6How much less man, who is a worm, and the son of man, who is a worm!”
Suffering, protest, limited human knowledge, friendship, and encounter with the sovereign God. Read Job 25 within the complete Job overview, and use the contextual Bible reading guide before forming a personal application. Chapter divisions aid navigation, but the literary unit may begin earlier or continue into the next chapter.
Mark repeated words, changes of speaker, commands, promises, contrasts, questions, and the relationship between paragraphs.
Distinguish description from command and immediate audience from later readers before forming a personal application.
Job 25 contains 6 verses and about 80 words in this translation. These observations come from the chapter itself; they are prompts for close reading, not claims about its only possible meaning.
Verse 1 begins: “Then Bildad the Shuhite answered,” Ask what situation, voice, image, or argument this opening establishes for everything that follows.
Verse 6 closes: “How much less man, who is a worm, and the son of man, who is a worm!”” Compare the ending with the opening and note what changed, resolved, intensified, or remained open.
Recurring or prominent content words include worm, bildad, shuhite, answered, dominion, fear. Follow where each word appears and whether its meaning shifts with the speaker or setting.
This page reproduces the World English Bible Protestant edition (WEBP), a modern-English translation dedicated to the public domain.
Use the book, chapter, and verse—for example, Job 25:1—and name the World English Bible if the wording matters. Each verse number above is a direct anchor link.
Not always. Chapter and verse numbers were added for navigation. Check the paragraphs, scenes, poetic stanzas, or argument before and after this chapter.
Begin with one honest question, one passage read carefully, and one faithful next step.