Job 25

Bildad replied, 2. To God belongs that supreme authority over all things in heaven and earth, and that infinite majesty which strikes every beholder into solemn awe. In perfect quietness and order he rules all the luminaries in the firmament, and all the angels and glorified saints above. Why then darest thou pretend to find fault with him?

Job 25:3

His creatures are absolutely innumerable to us, and every one shares of his light, his benefits of nature or grace:—why then contend with him?

Job 25:4

And how then can a poor wretched man stand as righteous before God; and he that is born of a sinful woman be pure before him?

Job 25:5

In his view the bright luminaries of heaven are spotted and dark

Job 25:6

How mean and vile then must the frail and dying children of a corrupted progenitor and covenant-head be in his sight!

REFLECTIONS UPON CHAP. XXV.—After long and hot disputing, people often come to see that there was less difference between them than they thought. Job’s friends were obliged to acknowledge that wicked persons might prosper for a time, and Job owned that they would be destroyed at last. It were a great mercy for religious disputants to have their hearts always filled with awful thoughts of God and humble thoughts of themselves. But how infinite is the condescension of God to hold fellowship with men, so mean, so loathsome! Let me never forget how JERONAH assumed my nature, and in it for me became a worm and no man; a reproach of men, and despised of the people! What manner of love hath the Father bestowed on us in thus sending forth his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, that we sinful worms might, through his blood, become the sons of God!