Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on the Whole Bible
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Job
Book: Job
Chapter: 25
Overview:
Bildad shows that
Man cannot be justified before
God.
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Bildad drops the question concerning the prosperity of wicked
men; but shows the infinite distance there is between
God and
Man. He represents to
Job some truths he had too much
overlooked.
Man's
Righteousness and
Holiness, at the best, are
nothing in comparison with
God's, Ps 89:6. As
God is
So great
and glorious, how can
Man, who is guilty and impure, appear
before him? We need to be born again of water and of the Holy
Ghost, and to be bathed again and again in the
Blood of
Christ,
that
Fountain opened, Zec 13:1. We should be humbled as mean,
guilty, polluted creatures, and renounce self-dependence. But
our vileness will commend
Christ's condescension and
Love; the
riches of his
Mercy and the power of his
Grace will be magnified
to all eternity
By every sinner he redeems.