Job 25 Footnotes

25:4-5 Bildad’s question should not be understood as a denial that man’s reconciliation with God is impossible. Bildad returned to where the dialogue began, and he repeatedly surfaced in stating that weak, flawed human beings cannot hope to be so morally perfect that they are pure in God’s sight (4:15-18; 9:2; 14:4; 15:14-16). His statement was designed to counter Job’s claim that were he to present his case before God, his innocence and righteousness would be established (23:10-12). Bildad asked better than he knew. The Scriptures answer the question by declaring that sinful people can be just in God’s sight by meeting God’s terms (Gn 15:6; Hab 2:4), faith in the substitutionary death of Christ for sins (Rm 3:21-26; 5:8; 2Co 5:21; 1Pt 3:18).