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Job 25:5
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If even the moon does not shineand the stars are not pure in his sight,
Behold, even the moon has no brightness, And the stars are not pure in his sight;
Behold, even the moon is not bright, and the stars are not pure in his eyes;
Even the moon is not bright and the stars are not pure in his eyes.
If even the moon is not bright, and the stars are not pure as far as he is concerned,
"Behold, even the moon has no brightness [compared to God's majesty and glory] And the stars are not pure in His sight,
"If even the moon has no brightness And the stars are not pure in His sight,
Behold, even the moon has no brightness, And the stars are not pure in his sight;
Behold, he wil giue no light to the moone, and the starres are vncleane in his sight.
Behold even the moon has no brightness,And the stars are not pure in His sight;
If even the moon does not shine, and the stars are not pure in His sight,
To him, not even the light of the moon and stars can ever be pure.
Why, before him even the moon lacks brightness, and the stars themselves are not pure.
Lo, even the moon is not bright; and the stars are not pure in his sight:
In God's eyes even the moon is not pure and bright; even the stars are not pure.
Behold, even the moon cannot be justified; yea, the stars are not pure in his sight.
In his eyes even the moon is not bright, or the stars pure.
Look, even the moon is not bright, and the stars are not pure in his sight.
Behold, even the moon, and it is not bright; and the stars are not pure in His eyes;
Beholde, the Moone shyneth nothinge in comparison to him, & the starres are vnclene in his sight.
Behold, even the moon hath no brightness, And the stars are not pure in his sight:
See, even the moon is not bright, and the stars are not clean in his eyes:
Behold, even the moon hath no brightness, and the stars are not pure in His sight;
Behold euen to the moone, and it shineth not, yea the starres are not pure in his sight.
Beholde, the moone shyneth nothing in comparison to him, and the starres are vncleane in his sight.
If he gives an order to the moon, then it shines not; and the stars are not pure before him.
Behold, even the moon hath no brightness, and the stars are not pure in his sight:
Lo! also the moone schyneth not, and sterris ben not cleene in `his siyt;
Look, even the moon has no brightness, And the stars are not pure in his eyes:
Behold even to the moon, and it shineth not; and the stars are not pure in his sight.
If even the moon does not shine, And the stars are not pure in His sight,
God is more glorious than the moon; he shines brighter than the stars.
See, even the moon is not bright and the stars are not pure in His eyes.
If even the moon is not bright and the stars are not pure in his sight,
Look as far as the moon, and it is not clear, and, the stars, are not bright in his eyes!
Behold even the moon doth not shine, and the stars are not pure in his sight.
Behold, even the moon is not bright and the stars are not clean in his sight;
Lo -- unto the moon, and it shineth not, And stars have not been pure in His eyes.
"If even the moon has no brightness And the stars are not pure in His sight,
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Isaiah 24:23, Isaiah 60:19, Isaiah 60:20, 2 Corinthians 3:10
Reciprocal: Genesis 1:14 - Let there 2 Samuel 6:9 - How shall 1 Chronicles 13:12 - How Job 4:18 - he put Job 15:15 - he putteth Job 35:5 - Look Psalms 8:3 - moon Romans 3:20 - in his sight Colossians 1:22 - in his
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And Sarah my master's wife bare a son to my master when she was old: and unto him hath he given all that he hath.
And these are the days of the years of Abraham's life which he lived, an hundred threescore and fifteen years.
And his sons Isaac and Ishmael buried him in the cave of Machpelah, in the field of Ephron the son of Zohar the Hittite, which is before Mamre;
The field which Abraham purchased of the sons of Heth: there was Abraham buried, and Sarah his wife.
Now these are the generations of Ishmael, Abraham's son, whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah's handmaid, bare unto Abraham:
And Isaac intreated the Lord for his wife, because she was barren: and the Lord was intreated of him, and Rebekah his wife conceived.
And the Lord said unto her, Two nations are in thy womb, and two manner of people shall be separated from thy bowels; and the one people shall be stronger than the other people; and the elder shall serve the younger.
Thou hast ascended on high, thou hast led captivity captive: thou hast received gifts for men; yea, for the rebellious also, that the Lord God might dwell among them.
All things are delivered unto me of my Father: and no man knoweth the Son, but the Father; neither knoweth any man the Father, save the Son, and he to whomsoever the Son will reveal him.
And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Behold, even to the moon,.... If all things that are glorious and illustrious in the lower world, and which are between that and the region of the moon, are beheld; or all from the seat of the Divine Majesty, down to that glorious luminary, are viewed, they lose all their lustre and brightness, when compared with the Divine Being;
and it, even that itself
shineth not; it is darkened, confounded, and ashamed; it hides its beautiful face, and draws in its borrowed and useful light, at the approach of him, who is light itself, and in whom is no darkness at all: or it tabernacles not n; has no tabernacle to abide in, as is said of the sun, Psalms 19:4; or does not expand and spread its light, as a tent o or tabernacle is spread; it does not diffuse, but contracts it. No mention is made of the sun, not because that shines in its own light, which the moon does not; but perhaps because the controversy between Job and his friends was held in the night, when the moon and the stars were only seen, and therefore only mentioned; otherwise, what is here observed equally holds good of the sun as of the moon; see
Isaiah 24:23;
yea, the stars are not pure in his sight; as there are spots in the sun and in the moon, seen by the eye of man, aided and assisted, so such may be seen by God in the stars also, and in these, both in a natural and in a mystical sense; as by them may be meant the angels of heaven, even those are not pure in the sight of God, and in comparison of him, the most perfectly pure and holy Being; see Job 4:18.
n ולא יאהיל "et non ponet tabernaculum", Montanus, Bolducius; so Schmidt, Schultens. o "Non expandet lumen suum in modum tentorii", Complutenses apud Bolduc.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Behold even to the moon, and it shineth not - Or, behold even the moon shineth not. That is, in comparison with God it is dark and obscure. The idea is, that the most beautiful and glorious objects become dim and fade away when compared with him. So Jerome renders it, Ecce luna etiam non splendet. The word here rendered “shineth” (יאהיל ya'âhalı̂yl) frequently means to pitch or remove a tent, and is a form of the word אהל 'ôhel uniformly rendered tent or tabernacle. Some have supposed that the meaning here is, that even the moon and the stars of heaven - the bright canopy above - were not fit to furnish a tent or dwelling for God. But the parallelism seems to demand the usual interpretation, as meaning that the moon and stars faded away before God. The word אהל 'ôhel derives this meaning, according to Gesenius, from its relation to the word הלל hâlal, to be clear or brilliant, from the mutual relation of the פא and עע verbs. The Arabic has the same meaning.
Yea, the stars are not pure in his sight - That is, they are not bright in comparison with him. The design is to show the glory of the Most High and that nothing could be compared with him; see the notes at Job 4:18.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Job 25:5. Behold even to the moon, and it shineth not — It is continually changing its appearance. It never appears twice in its whole revolution with the same face: it is ever waxing or waning; and its face is variegated with opaque spots. Its changeableness can never be compared with the unchangeable nature of God.
Yea, the stars are not pure in his sight. — Whatever their excellence may be as stars, it is nothing in comparison with him from whom they have derived their being and splendour. See the notes on Job 4:18; Job 15:14-16. The Targum reads: "Behold, the moon is as yet spotted in her eastern part; the sun shines not; and the stars are not pure in his sight."
Some think that by stars are meant those angels who kept not their first estate: this may be so, but I cannot see it in the text. It may, however, mean the heavenly host, as it is supposed to do, Job 28:7; but I still must hesitate on the propriety of such applications.
It is probable this speech of Bildad was delivered in the night-season, when clouds interrupted the bright shining of the moon. The third verse seems to refer immediately to the stars, which to the naked eye are innumerable. The sun is not mentioned, because of his absence.
This speech of Bildad is both confused and inconclusive. His reasoning is absurd, and he draws false conclusions from his premises. In the third verse, he says, "Is there any number of his armies? and upon whom does not his light arise?" But how absurd is the conclusion which he draws from his questions: - "How then can a man be justified with God, or he be clean who is born of a woman?"
This has no relation to the premises; still to us the question is not difficult, and has already been answered in the notes: "A man can be justified with God," through the blood of Christ; and "he can be clean who is born of a woman." through the sanctification of the Spirit.
