Job 25:5
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New International Version (©1984)
If even the moon is not bright and the stars are not pure in his eyes,

New Living Translation (©2007)
God is more glorious than the moon; he shines brighter than the stars.

English Standard Version (©2001)
Behold, even the moon is not bright, and the stars are not pure in his eyes;

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
"If even the moon has no brightness And the stars are not pure in His sight,

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
Even the moon isn't bright, and the stars aren't pure in his sight.

King James Bible
Behold even to the moon, and it shineth not; yea, the stars are not pure in his sight.

American King James Version
Behold even to the moon, and it shines not; yes, the stars are not pure in his sight.

American Standard Version
Behold, even the moon hath no brightness, And the stars are not pure in his sight:

Bible in Basic English
See, even the moon is not bright, and the stars are not clean in his eyes:

Douay-Rheims Bible
Behold even the moon doth not shine, and the stars are not pure in his sight.

Darby Bible Translation
Lo, even the moon is not bright; and the stars are not pure in his sight:

English Revised Version
Behold, even the moon hath no brightness, and the stars are not pure in his sight:

Webster's Bible Translation
Behold even to the moon, and it shineth not; and the stars are not pure in his sight.

World English Bible
Behold, even the moon has no brightness, and the stars are not pure in his sight;

Young's Literal Translation
Lo -- unto the moon, and it shineth not, And stars have not been pure in His eyes.

Geneva Study Bible

Behold even to the moon, and it shineth not; yea, {d} the stars are not pure in his sight.

(d) If God shows his power, the moon and stars cannot have the light which is given to them, much less can man have any excellency but from God.

Wesley's Notes

25:5 Moon - The moon, tho' bright and glorious, if compared with the Divine Majesty, is without any lustre or glory. By naming the moon, and thence proceeding to the stars, the sun is also included.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

5. "Look up even unto the moon" (Job 15:15). "Stars" here answer to "saints" (angels) there; "the moon" here to "the heavens" there. Even the "stars," the most dazzling object to man's eye, and the angels, of which the stars are emblems (Job 4:18; Re 9:1), are imperfect in His sight. Theirs is the light and purity but of creatures; His of the Creator.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

25:1-6 Bildad shows that man cannot be justified before God. - Bildad drops the question concerning the prosperity of wicked men; but shows the infinite distance there is between God and man. He represents to Job some truths he had too much overlooked. Man's righteousness and holiness, at the best, are nothing in comparison with God's, Ps 89:6. As God is so great and glorious, how can man, who is guilty and impure, appear before him? We need to be born again of water and of the Holy Ghost, and to be bathed again and again in the blood of Christ, that Fountain opened, Zec 13:1. We should be humbled as mean, guilty, polluted creatures, and renounce self-dependence. But our vileness will commend Christ's condescension and love; the riches of his mercy and the power of his grace will be magnified to all eternity by every sinner he redeems.


Job 15:15 "Behold, He puts no trust in His holy ones, And the heavens are not pure in His sight;
Job 31:26 If I have looked at the sun when it shone Or the moon going in splendor, (NASB ©1995)

Bright Brightness Clean Eyes Moon Pure Shineth Sight Stars


Behold even to the moon, and it shineth not; yea, the stars are not pure in his sight.

Isa 24:23 60:19,20 2Co 3:10

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