Chapter Twenty-Five

Bildad’s response to Job’s speech in the third dialogue.

Bildad’s short speech amounts to two points: before the all-just and almighty God, to whom the heavenly powers submit, man cannot uphold a supposedly violated right; before the all-holy God, in whose eyes not even the stars are pure, man cannot be pure either; justification is not possible for him. Both points are directed against the desire, confident in his own righteousness, of Job to dispute with God (Job 23).