Job 25:6 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁶How much less man, that is a worm? and the son of man, which is a worm?

Job 25:6 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Isaiah 41:14
Fear not, thou worm Jacob, and ye men of Israel; I will help thee, saith the LORD, and thy redeemer, the Holy One of Israel.
Psalms 22:6
But I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised of the people.
Genesis 18:27
And Abraham answered and said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord, which am but dust and ashes:
Job 4:19
How much less in them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, which are crushed before the moth?
Job 7:17
What is man, that thou shouldest magnify him? and that thou shouldest set thine heart upon him?

Topics

Animals Creation Depravity of Man Disease Fasting Gentleness God Humiliation and Self-Affliction

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…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 6)

6. (Job 4:19-21; 15:16). worm ... worm--Two distinct Hebrew words. The first, a worm bred in putridity; alluding to man’s corruption. The second a crawling worm; implying that man is weak and grovelling.