Job 25-27 - I Hold Fast My Righteousness

Bildad Asks, Can Man Be Right with God?

Job 25:4-6 LSB - [4] "How then can mortal man be right with God? Or how can he be pure who is born of woman? [5] "Behold even the moon has no brightness, And the stars are not pure in His sight; [6] How much less mortal man, [that] maggot, And the son of man, [that] worm!"

Original and actual Sin confessed

Author: Isaac Watts

1 Lord, we are vile, and full of sin,

We're born unholy and unclean;

Spring from the man whose guilty fall

Corrupts his race, and taints us all.

2 Soon as we draw our infant breath

The seeds of sin grow up for death;

Thy law demands a perfect heart,

But we're defiled in every part.

3 Behold, we fall before thy face;

Our only refuge is thy grace:

No outward forms can make us clean;

The leprosy lies deep within.

4 Nor bleeding bird, nor bleeding beast,

Nor hyssop branch, nor earthly priest,

Nor running brook, nor flood, nor sea,

Can wash the dismal stain away.

5 Jesus, thy blood, thy blood alone,

Hath power sufficient to atone;

Thy blood can make us white as snow;

No other tide can cleanse us so.

Who Can Understand God?

Job 26:2-3 LSB - [2] "What a help you are to the one without power! How you have saved the arm without strength! [3] "What counsel you have given to [one] without wisdom! What sound wisdom you have abundantly made known!

Job 26:7 LSB - [7] "He stretches out the north over what is formless And hangs the earth on nothing.

Job 26:14 LSB - [14] "Behold, these are the fringes of His ways; And how [only with] a whisper of a word do we hear of Him! But His mighty thunder, who can understand?"

Psa 139:1-5 LSB - [1] For the choir director. Of David. A Psalm. O Yahweh, You have searched me and known [me]. [2] You know when I sit down and when I rise up; You understand my thought from afar. [3] You scrutinize my path and my lying down, And are intimately acquainted with all my ways. [4] Even before there is a word on my tongue, Behold, O Yahweh, You know it all. [5] You have enclosed me behind and before, And You have put Your hand upon me.

Psa 139:6 LSB - [6] [Such] knowledge is too wonderful for me; It is [too] high, I cannot attain to it.

 

I Hold Fast My Righteousness

Job 27:2-4 LSB - [2] "As God lives, who has removed my justice, And the Almighty, who has embittered my soul, [3] For as long as breath is in me, And the spirit from God is in my nostrils, [4] My lips certainly will not speak unrighteousness, Nor will my tongue utter deceit.

Job 27:6 LSB - [6] "I hold fast my righteousness and will not let it go. My heart does not reproach any of my days.