a man in general (singly or collectively) · noun, common masculine singular absolute
justified
יִּצְדַּ֣קyitz.Dak
H6663
to be (causatively · verb, qal imperfect, 3rd person masculine singular
God
אֵ֑ל'El
H410
strength · noun, common masculine singular absolute
clean
יִּ֝זְכֶּ֗הyiz.Keh
H2135
to be translucent · verb, qal imperfect, 3rd person masculine singular
born
יְל֣וּדye.Lud
H3205
to bear young · verb, qal passive participle, masculine singular construct
woman
אִשָּֽׁה'i.Shah
H802
a woman · noun, common feminine singular absolute
Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890/1894), public domain; digitized by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). KJV word tagging: eBible.org (public domain). Original-language text, parsing and brief lexicon: STEPBible.org data from Tyndale House, Cambridge (CC BY 4.0).
Cross-references
Romans 5:1 Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ:
Psalms 130:3 If thou, LORD, shouldest mark iniquities, O Lord, who shall stand?
Job 4:17-19 Shall mortal man be more just than God? shall a man be more pure than his maker?
Job 9:2 I know it is so of a truth: but how should man be just with God?
Job 15:14-16 What is man, that he should be clean? and he which is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
Psalms 143:2 And enter not into judgment with thy servant: for in thy sight shall no man living be justified.
Psalms 51:5 Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me.
Revelation 1:5 And from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, and the first begotten of the dead, and the prince of the kings of the earth. Unto him t…
Cross-references from OpenBible.info (CC BY), in the lineage of the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain).
Commentary
Matthew Henry on Job 25:1–end
Bildad 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 concerning it, as one that contended for truth, not for victory, and therefore, for the finding of truth, would be content to lose the victory; or, if he still thought himself in the right, yet he knew when he had said enough, and would not wrangle endlessly for the last word. Perhaps indeed one reason why he and the rest of them let fall this debate was because they perceived that Job and they did not differ so much in opinion as they thought: they owned that wicked people might prosper…
How then can man be justified with God? Since he sees all his ways and works, his secret as well as open sins; either be more just than he, as Eliphaz expresses it, Job 4:17; which no man in his senses will say; or just as he is, and upon a level with him, or in comparison of him, or before him, and in his sight: and this is what Job himself denies, Job 9:2; for however righteous a man may be in his own sight, or in the sight of others, he cannot of himself be justified in the sight of God; nor can any be justified with him by his own righteousness, because the best righteousness of man is imperfect; and, if Bildad thought this was the sentiment of Job, he mistook him; for, what he meant by…
Eliphaz had said that it is nearly impossible to be innocent or pure (4:17-19; 15:14-16), and then only after suffering (22:21-23). Bildad claimed that only the totally blameless could hope to be pure (8:20).
Rashi
The Church Fathers
"How can man before the Lord be righteous? He therefore allows without temptation the temptation against him. "How can one who is born of a woman be purified? He will be unclean, so much so that God will not have cleansed him.
Can a man be justified being compared with God? or can he be found clean that is born of a woman? This verse is spoken above by blessed Job, and is now repeated in the upbraiding of him; since every just man is just by illumination from God, not by comparison with God. For man's righteousness when compared with the Maker is unrighteousness, since, even although man had held fast in his own estate of creation, the creature could never be equalled to the Creator. To which creature howsoever, unto heavier burthens of deficiency, there accrued sin also, which the serpent by plotting brought in, and woman proving frail recommended. Hence now, forasmuch as man is born by the agency of woman who is made subject to sin, the frailty of the first guilt is inherited in the offspring; and because the branch of the human race was made rotten in the root, it does not hold up in the greenness of its creation. Hence it is rightly said now, Can a man be justified being compared with God? or can he be found clean that is born of a woman? As if it were expressed in plain terms, 'Let not man entertain pride against his Creator, let him reflect whence he came hither, and understand what he is.' But observe, there are those that when by the gift of the Spirit they are holpen against the frailty of their flesh, are made to erect themselves, gleam forth in virtues, yea, flash out in the marvels of miraculous signs as well, yet is there no man who may pass through life free from sin, so long as he bears upon him flesh of corruption.
The Church Fathers: public-domain translations (Ante-Nicene and Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers), verse-indexed by SermonIndex (CC BY 4.0).
Dictionary and topics
Depravity Of Man · General scriptures concerning — General scriptures concerning
Fall Of Man, The · Man in consequence of: Born in sin — Man in consequence of: Born in sin
Justification Before God · Under law: Man cannot attain to — Under law: Man cannot attain to
Man · INSIGNIFI — INSIGNIFI
Sin · All men are conceived and born in — All men are conceived and born in
Dictionary: Easton's (1897) and Smith's (1863), public domain. Topics: Nave's Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey's Topical Textbook (1897), public domain. Both as parsed by NEUU (CC BY 4.0).
on Job 25:4
How then can man be just... that you said (23:10), “He has tested me that I will emerge like gold.”
