This chapter contains Bildad's reply to Job, such an one as it is; in which, declining the controversy between them, he endeavours to dissuade him from attempting to lay his cause before God, and think to justify himself before him, from the consideration of the majesty of God, described by the dominion he is possessed of; the fear creatures stand in of him; the peace he makes in his high places; the number of his armies, and the vast extent of his light
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Job 25 — OverviewJob 25 · Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Whole BibleBildad here makes a very short reply to Job's last discourse, as one
that began to be tired of the cause. He drops the main question
concerning the prosperity of wicked men, as being unable to answer the
proofs…Job 25 — OverviewJob 25 · Treasury of Scripture KnowledgeJob 25:1, Bildad shews that man cannot be justified before God.Job 25:1-6Job 25:1-6 · Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Whole BibleBildad is to be commended here for two things:--1. For speaking no more
on the subject about which Job and he differed. Perhaps he began to
think Job was in the right, and then it was justice to say no more…Job 25:1Job 25:1 · John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bibleand from the impossibility of man's being justified with him, or clean before him, argued from thenceJob 25:2Job 25:2 · Treasury of Scripture KnowledgeDominion: Job 9:2-10, Job 26:5-14, Job 40:9-14; 1 Chronicles 29:11-12; Psalms 99:1-3; Jeremiah 10:6-7; Daniel 4:34-37; Matthew 6:13, Matthew 28:18; Ephesians 1:20-21; Jude 1:25; Revelation 6:16
he maketh: Isaiah 57:15,…Job 25:2Job 25:2 · John Gill's Exposition of the Entire BibleDominion and fear [are] with him,.... Not with man, as Sephorno interprets it, as that with him is power to rule over the imagination (the evil figment of his heart) to choose the good, and refuse the evil; and with him…