Verse Lens · Context pointer
Job 25:5 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 5. 5Behold even to the moon, and it shineth not; yea, the stars are not pure in his sight.
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Role in This Section
Job 25:5 advances the thought unit with the words “Behold even to the moon, and it shineth not; yea, the stars are not pure in his sight.” Bildad directs attention through “Behold even to the moon, and it shineth not” as Bildad's Final Speech Stresses Human Smallness develops.
Read It With
- Job 25:1–25:6
Read Job 25:5 with 25:1–25:6. Read alone, “Behold even to the moon, and it shineth not; yea, the stars are not pure in his sight” could lose its speaker, the question or claim it develops, and the unit's outcome. The complete movement establishes: Bildad praises divine dominion and peace and contrasts God's purity with mortal impurity through moon, stars, worm, and maggot imagery.
Why It Needs Context
Job 25:5 depends on 25:1–25:6; isolating “Behold even to the moon, and it shineth not; yea, the stars are not pure in his sight” would detach a poetic premise, image, response, or transition from Bildad and “Bildad's Final Speech Stresses Human Smallness.”
Read Job 25:1–6 together
Why these verses belong together: Job 25:1–25:6 follows the pinned KJV paragraphing and holds together one sustained speech movement: “Bildad's Final Speech Stresses Human Smallness.” The next unit begins with a new stanza, question sequence, scene, speaker response, or rhetorical turn.
Verse 1. 1 Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,
Verse 2. 2 Dominion and fear are with him, he maketh peace in his high places.
Verse 3. 3 Is there any number of his armies? and upon whom doth not his light arise?
Verse 4. 4 How then can man be justified with God? or how can he be clean that is born of a woman?
Verse 5. 5 Behold even to the moon, and it shineth not; yea, the stars are not pure in his sight.
Verse 6. 6 How much less man, that is a worm? and the son of man, which is a worm?
Continue in Context
The full thought-unit study remains the final contextual authority for this Verse Lens.
Read Job 25:1–25:6 — Bildad's Final Speech Stresses Human SmallnessSources used for this context pointer
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
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Supports: Exact displayed KJV wording, verse order, paragraph metadata, supplied-word markup, and complete thought-unit coverage.
Exact location: Job 25:1–25:6, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM-derived repository corpus
Open source ↗hebrew text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: Job
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Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/Job.xml, OSIS 25:1–25:6
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