Job 25:4-6

Bildad Speaks: Man Cannot Be Righteous

⁴ How then can man be _r in the right before God?
How can he who is _s born of woman be _t pure?
⁵ Behold, even the moon is not bright,
and the stars are not pure in his eyes;
⁶ _u how much less man, who is _v a maggot,
and _w the son of man, who is a worm!"

1. 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.
   
2. Cross References
   Job 14:1
   Man who is born of a woman is few of days and full of trouble.
   
3. Cross References
   Job 14:4
   Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? There is not one.
   
4. 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!
   
5. 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.
   
6. Cross References
   Job 35:8
   Your wickedness concerns a man like yourself, and your righteousness a son of man.