Job 25 – God has richly blessed us

Bildad was the last to retort Job in this second round of debates. He was obviously unable to out argue Job, yet he felt compelled to speak out against his adversarial spirit. He could not find any other convincing views to counter Job and so was essentially repeating the same old thing. What Bildad said in these six short verses is simply this: In the presence of the great and powerful God, how could a man, who is like a worm, ever thought himself to be faultless and pure? His whole aim was to get Job to face up and admit his own worthlessness. For Job, the argument that God is powerful was not an issue. He knew that full well. Hence what Bildad said was pointless. What he said offered no hope for Job’s yearning for exoneration nor any hope for his purification. As far as Job was concerned, he never said he had no sin, but that his intense sufferings were disproportionate to his sin.

Job did not refute the greatness of God and none of us should. Instead we, his creature, must honor and respect His greatness. We need to cultivate an attitude of humility before Him. We are thankful that God had elevated us man, whom Bildad said was as worm, through what Jesus Christ His Son had accomplished for us at Calvary. And in Paul’s word in Ephesians 1:3-4, “(He)…has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ, just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy and blameless before Him.” What a blessed truth!