25:1 Then Bildad the Shuhite answered: 

 

Bildad  (the traditionalist) gave his third and final response to Job. It is brief, because he is running out of arguments.

 

25:2 “Dominion and awesome might belong to God; he establishes peace in his heights. 

 

God is sovereign and omnipotent. Job has no business arguing with God.

 

25:3 Can his armies be numbered? On whom does his light not rise?

 

God is omnipotent. His angelic armies cannot be numbered. The Shechinah Glory of God pervades over everything. Job has no business arguing with God. 

 

25:4 How then can a human being be righteous before God?How can one born of a woman be pure?

 

Instead of responding to Job’s questions about injustice, Bildad repeated Eliphaz’s earlier arguments about man not being righteous.

 

25:5 If even the moon is not bright, and the stars are not pure as far as he is concerned, 25:6 how much less a mortal man, who is but a maggot— a son of man, who is only a worm!”

 

Job is only a maggot and a worm compared to the stars of the universe.

 

Job’s three friends were very poor counselors. They did not pray, show sympathy, encourage, or listen to Job. Instead, they ignored him, condemned him, belittled him, insulted him, became defensive and argumentative, and gave inappropriate solutions to his problem. When believers become counselors to other believers, then they need to study the Bible doctrine recorded in this Book of Job so that they do not make the same mistakes.