Job 25:4

Bildad asks how any human born of woman can be righteous or clean before God. It matters because it raises the central question of how sinful man can be justified.

Cross-references · 14

• Rom 5:1Being therefore justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ;
• Ps 130:3If you, Yah, kept a record of sins, Lord, who could stand?
• Job 15:14–16What is man, that he should be clean? What is he who is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
• Job 4:17–19‘Shall mortal man be more just than God? Shall a man be more pure than his Maker?
• Job 9:2“Truly I know that it is so, but how can man be just with God?
• Ps 143:2Don’t enter into judgment with your servant, for in your sight no man living is righteous.
• Rev 1:5and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To him who loves us, and washed us from our sins by his blood;
• Ps 51:5Behold, I was born in iniquity. In sin my mother conceived me.
• Zech 13:1“In that day there will be a spring opened to David’s house and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, for sin and for uncleanness.
• Job 14:3–4Do you open your eyes on such a one, and bring me into judgment with you?
• 1 Jn 1:9If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us the sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
• Rom 3:19–20Now we know that whatever things the law says, it speaks to those who are under the law, that every mouth may be closed, and all the world may be brought under the judgment of God.
• Eph 2:3among whom we also all once lived in the lusts of our flesh, doing the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest.
• 1 Cor 6:11Such were some of you, but you were washed. But you were sanctified. But you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and in the Spirit of our God.

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