Job 25
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Then o Bildad the Shuhite answered and said:
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"Dominion and fear are with God;
he makes peace in his high heaven.
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Is there any number to his p armies?
Upon whom does his q light not arise?
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How then can man be r in the right before God?
How can he who is s born of woman be t pure?
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Behold, even the moon is not bright,
and the stars are not pure in his eyes;
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u how much less man, who is v a maggot,
and w the son of man, who is a worm!"
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Cross References
Job 2:11
Now when Job's three friends heard of all this evil that had come upon him, they came each from his own place, Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite. They made an appointment together to come to show him sympathy and comfort him.
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Cross References
Job 19:12
His troops come on together; they have cast up their siege ramp against me and encamp around my tent.
Psalms 103:21
Bless the Lord, all his hosts, his ministers, who do his will!
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Cross References
Matthew 5:45
So that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven. For he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.
James 1:17
Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change.
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Cross References
Job 4:17 - 19
Can mortal man be in the right before God? Can a man be pure before his Maker?
Job 9:2
Truly I know that it is so: But how can a man be in the right before God?
Job 15:14 - 16
What is man, that he can be pure? Or he who is born of a woman, that he can be righteous?
Psalms 130:3
If you, O Lord, should mark iniquities, O Lord, who could stand?
Psalms 143:2
Enter not into judgment with your servant, for no one living is righteous before you.
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Cross References
Job 14:1
Man who is born of a woman is few of days and full of trouble.
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Cross References
Job 14:4
Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? There is not one.
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Cross References
Job 9:14
How then can I answer him, choosing my words with him?
Job 15:16
How much less one who is abominable and corrupt, a man who drinks injustice like water!
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Cross References
Psalms 22:6
But I am a worm and not a man, scorned by mankind and despised by the people.
Isaiah 41:14
Fear not, you worm Jacob, you men of Israel! I am the one who helps you, declares the Lord ; your Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel.
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Cross References
Job 35:8
Your wickedness concerns a man like yourself, and your righteousness a son of man.
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