Job 25
Bildad: Remember your place, maggot
Do fear: God’s big enough to hurt us
1Bildad from Shuah said:2God rules a vast domain,
And keeps the peace in High Heaven.
We should be afraid of offending him.
3Could anyone count the size of his army?
Is there anyone on earth
Who doesn’t live in the light of his day?
Human’s aren’t pure at all
4How can humans compare themselvesto the goodness of God?
Can anyone born of flesh and bone
Stand innocent before him? [1]
5In God’s eyes the moon is barely bright.
Even stars fail to shine with pure light.
6How much less do we measure up?
By comparison to him,
We’re just mortal maggots,
A tangle of human worms. [2]
Footnotes
125:4
Bildad didn’t say that to praise God. He said it to destroy everything Job claimed. Job said he was a righteous person who followed God’s spoken laws, probably the 10 Commandments (Job 23:12; Exodus 20:1-17). Job said he didn’t deserve any of the tragedies that destroyed his family, leaving him with what seems like nothing more than a wife who told him to cuss God and die (Job 2:9).
225:6
Clearly, Bildad’s goal was something other than consolation, comfort, and warm fuzzies. He was using all his words, metaphors, and guilt chants to convince Job that it was his fault his kids died in a windstorm and his livestock and herders were lost to raiders and a lightning fire.
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