Job 25:1-26:14
Then Bildad the Shuhite replied: How then can a mortal be righteous before God? How can one born of woman be pure? how much less a mortal, who is but a maggot— a human being, who is only a worm!
Then Job replied: How you have helped the powerless! How you have saved the arm that is feeble! What advice you have offered to one without wisdom! And what great insight you have displayed!
He spreads out the northern skies over empty space; he suspends the earth over nothing. He wraps up the waters in his clouds, yet the clouds do not burst under their weight.
And these are but the outer fringe of his works; how faint the whisper we hear of him! Who then can understand the thunder of his power?”
If the speech is complete as it stands, Job's friends have exhausted their argument. They have nothing more to say. Bildad merely reiterates the obvious truth that no one is 1-- percent perfect in God's sight. This does not help Job. What point is there in godly living if God's punishment falls equally on good and bad?
May be Job interrupting Bildad, who then continues to speak of God's power, to the end of the chapter in another hymn, like that of Jon 9, with images drawn from ancient creation stories. In the created universe we catch a glimpse of God's dynamic power. But who can think to comprehend that power in all its fullness?
Why?
Bildad mentioned again said a man could not be righteous before the Lord.
Bildad said these are useless words.
Job mentioned the God's power in the creation of the world.
How wonderful the creation of the Lord, how can we fully understand the work of the Lord? No one can understand.
How?
Worship the Lord, how little we are, but God's love and grace will be with us through Jesus Christ and Holy Spirit.
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