The Meaning of Job 25:1 Explained

Job 25:1

KJV: Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,

YLT: And Bildad the Shuhite answereth and saith: --

Darby: And Bildad the Shuhite answered and said,

ASV: Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,

KJV Reverse Interlinear

Then answered  Bildad  the Shuhite,  and said, 

What does Job 25:1 Mean?

Context Summary

Job 25:1-6 - How Can Man Be Just Before God?
Bildad's closing speech adds little to the controversy. He suggests simply that Job's vindications of himself do not imply that he is righteous before God, and, acting upon the philosophy of the time, Bildad prefers to consider that Job is guilty of unrealized sins rather than believe that God has permitted suffering to come to Him unmerited.
There are some unanswerable questions in this paragraph-suggestions full of helpfulness. God's armies are numberless-ten thousand times ten thousand, and every angel is pledged to our help. His light shines everywhere, even on the saddest hearts. Not one of us can be just before Him, but we may avail ourselves of the justifying righteousness of Christ, which, as Bunyan says, is always the same, not increased by our good frames of mind or lessened by our bad ones. None of woman born are clean, but the blood of Jesus Christ cleanses from all sin. Moon and stars pale and pass away, but God hath set His heart upon His saints, and hath adopted them into His family. And when the fabric of nature shall have decayed, they shall shine as the sun in the kingdom of their Father. [source]

Chapter Summary: Job 25

1  Bildad shows that man cannot be justified before God

What do the individual words in Job 25:1 mean?

And answered Bildad the Shuhite and said
וַ֭יַּעַן בִּלְדַּ֥ד הַשֻּׁחִ֗י וַיֹּאמַֽר

וַ֭יַּעַן  And  answered 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Verb, Qal, Consecutive imperfect, third person masculine singular
Root: לְעַנּׄות 
Sense: to answer, respond, testify, speak, shout.
בִּלְדַּ֥ד  Bildad 
Parse: Proper Noun, masculine singular
Root: בִּלְדַּד  
Sense: the second friend of Job.
הַשֻּׁחִ֗י  the  Shuhite 
Parse: Article, Proper Noun, masculine singular
Root: שׁוּחִי  
Sense: an ethnic appellative applied only to Bildad, the friend of Job.
וַיֹּאמַֽר  and  said 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Verb, Qal, Consecutive imperfect, third person masculine singular
Root: אָמַר 
Sense: to say, speak, utter.

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