> [[job-24|← Previous]] | [[job-00|TOC]] | [[job-26|Next →]] --- # Job, Chapter 25 ## Chapter 25 **Bildad’s Third Speech.** 1 Then Bildad the Shuhite answered and said: ^job-25-1 2 Dominion and dread are his ^job-25-2 who brings about harmony in his heavens. 3 Is there any numbering of his troops? ^job-25-3 Yet on which of them does his light not rise? 4 How can anyone be in the right against God, ^job-25-4 or how can any born of woman be innocent? 5 Even the moon is not bright ^job-25-5 and the stars are not clean in his eyes. 6 How much less a human being, who is but a worm, ^job-25-6 a mortal, who is only a maggot? \* (25:1) At this point any structure in the dialogues disappears. Bildad’s speech is very short, and there follow two speeches attributed to Job, with significantly different introductions in [27:1] and [29:1], and with no intervening third speech of Zophar. \* (25:3) His troops: the heavenly host, or army, the stars (cf. [Jgs 5:20]), later understood as angels. a. (25:4) [Jb 4:17]; [9:2]; [35:2]. b. (25:6) [Jb 4:19]; [15:16]. --- _New American Bible, revised edition_ (2010, 1991, 1986, 1970) Confraternity of Christian Doctrine, Washington, D.C. > [[job-24|← Previous]] | [[job-00|TOC]] | [[job-26|Next →]]