Job 25

Facts can be wrong, while still being right.

Job 25  

FRIDAY  Reflections

Bildad makes a short argument that can be summed up: “since no one is like God or without sin,” it can be assumed Job was in the wrong. Here as in other places, Job’s accusers are saying something which is absolutely true. Bildad and Job might not have had the Scriptures we have but they knew man was not in perfect relationship with God.

Though he was saying the truth, Bildad’s argument did not fit to what was happening to Job. Even today, people grab truths or facts to justify their opinions without checking if they really apply. Bildad ignored the point Job was making in the previous chapter and found a new truth to justify his thoughts on Job’s character.

As we have seen elsewhere, facts can be correct but used wrong.  

Job 25:1-6
(1)  Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,
(2)  Dominion and fear are with him, he maketh peace in his high places.
(3)  Is there any number of his armies? and upon whom doth not his light arise?
(4)  How then can man be justified with God? or how can he be clean that is born of a woman?
(5)  Behold even to the moon, and it shineth not; yea, the stars are not pure in his sight.
(6)  How much less man, that is a worm? and the son of man, which is a worm?