The Meaning of Job 25:6 Explained

Job 25:6

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

YLT: How much less man -- a grub, And the son of man -- a worm!

Darby: How much less man, a worm, and the son of man, a worm!

ASV: How much less man, that is a worm! And the son of man, that is a worm!

KJV Reverse Interlinear

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

What does Job 25:6 Mean?

Context Summary

Job 25:1-6 - How Can Man Be Just Before God?
Bildad's closing speech adds little to the controversy. He suggests simply that Job's vindications of himself do not imply that he is righteous before God, and, acting upon the philosophy of the time, Bildad prefers to consider that Job is guilty of unrealized sins rather than believe that God has permitted suffering to come to Him unmerited.
There are some unanswerable questions in this paragraph-suggestions full of helpfulness. God's armies are numberless-ten thousand times ten thousand, and every angel is pledged to our help. His light shines everywhere, even on the saddest hearts. Not one of us can be just before Him, but we may avail ourselves of the justifying righteousness of Christ, which, as Bunyan says, is always the same, not increased by our good frames of mind or lessened by our bad ones. None of woman born are clean, but the blood of Jesus Christ cleanses from all sin. Moon and stars pale and pass away, but God hath set His heart upon His saints, and hath adopted them into His family. And when the fabric of nature shall have decayed, they shall shine as the sun in the kingdom of their Father. [source]

Chapter Summary: Job 25

1  Bildad shows that man cannot be justified before God

What do the individual words in Job 25:6 mean?

How how much less man [who is] a maggot and a son of man [who is] a worm -
אַ֭ף כִּֽי־ אֱנ֣וֹשׁ ؟ רִמָּ֑ה וּבֶן־ אָ֝דָ֗ם ؟ תּוֹלֵעָֽה פ

אַ֭ף  How 
Parse: Conjunction
Root: אַף  
Sense: also, yea, though, so much the more adv.
כִּֽי־  how  much  less 
Parse: Conjunction
Root: כִּי 
Sense: that, for, because, when, as though, as, because that, but, then, certainly, except, surely, since.
אֱנ֣וֹשׁ  man 
Parse: Noun, masculine singular
Root: אֱנׄושׁ 
Sense: man, mortal man, person, mankind.
؟ רִמָּ֑ה  [who  is]  a  maggot 
Parse: Noun, feminine singular
Root: רִמָּה  
Sense: maggot, worm (as cause and sign of decay).
וּבֶן־  and  a  son 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Noun, masculine singular construct
Root: בֵּן 
Sense: son, grandson, child, member of a group.
אָ֝דָ֗ם  of  man 
Parse: Noun, masculine singular
Root: אָדָם 
Sense: man, mankind.
؟ תּוֹלֵעָֽה  [who  is]  a  worm 
Parse: Noun, feminine singular
Root: תֹּולָע 
Sense: worm, scarlet stuff, crimson.
פ  - 
Parse: Punctuation

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