Job 25:1

BILDAD’S THIRD AND LAST REPLY.

1. Then answered Bildad Job’s burning desire (chap. 23) to meet his Judge, leads Bildad to contrast the infinite and overwhelming glory of God with the corruption and meanness of man. How shall such a being a worm bred in corruption presume to appear in the presence of Him whose armies cannot be counted, and whose all pervading glory casts into shade the stars, and even the moon, so that it shineth not. This brief and sublime speech is the forlorn hope of a sinking cause the brilliant flash of a signal gun at sea that tells to night and storm that all is lost. “It is an extraordinary refinement of the poet, that he has kept the last speech of the three friends free from direct accusations, and has, as it were, gathered and concentrated in it all that was true in the speeches of the friends.” Ebrard.