5Behold even to the moon, and it shineth not; yea, the stars are not pure in his sight.
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The sun shall be no more thy light by day; neither for brightness shall the moon give light unto thee: but the LORD shall be unto thee an everlasting light, and thy God thy glory. …
Behold, he putteth no trust in his saints; yea, the heavens are not clean in his sight.
If I beheld the sun when it shined, or the moon walking in brightness;
For even that which was made glorious had no glory in this respect, by reason of the glory that excelleth.
Then the moon shall be confounded, and the sun ashamed, when the LORD of hosts shall reign in mount Zion, and in Jerusalem, and before his ancients gloriously.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-6)Bildad is to be commended here for two things:—1. For speaking no more on the subject about which Job and he differed. Perhaps he began to think Job was in the right, and then it was justice to say no more concerning it, as one that contended for truth, not for victory, and therefore, for the finding of truth, would be content to lose the victory; or, if he still thought himself in the right, yet…
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