Job 25:3
New International Version
Can his forces be numbered? On whom does his light not rise?

New Living Translation
Who is able to count his heavenly army? Doesn’t his light shine on all the earth?

English Standard Version
Is there any number to his armies? Upon whom does his light not arise?

Berean Standard Bible
Can His troops be numbered? On whom does His light not rise?

King James Bible
Is there any number of his armies? and upon whom doth not his light arise?

New King James Version
Is there any number to His armies? Upon whom does His light not rise?

New American Standard Bible
“Is there any number to His troops? And upon whom does His light not rise?

NASB 1995
“Is there any number to His troops? And upon whom does His light not rise?

NASB 1977
“Is there any number to His troops? And upon whom does His light not rise?

Legacy Standard Bible
Is there any number to His troops? And upon whom does His light not rise?

Amplified Bible
“Is there any number to His [vast celestial] armies? And upon whom does His light not rise?

Christian Standard Bible
Can his troops be numbered? Does his light not shine on everyone?

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Can His troops be numbered? Does His light not shine on everyone?

American Standard Version
Is there any number of his armies? And upon whom doth not his light arise?

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And there is no computation to his power, and upon whom does his light not dawn?

Brenton Septuagint Translation
For let none think that there is a respite for robbers: and upon whom will there not come a snare from him?

Contemporary English Version
Who can count his army of stars? Isn't God the source of light?

Douay-Rheims Bible
Is there any numbering of his soldiers? and upon whom shall not his light arise?

English Revised Version
Is there any number of his armies? and upon whom doth not his light arise?

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Is there any [limit to the] number of his troops? Is there anyone on whom his light does not rise?

Good News Translation
Can anyone count the angels who serve him? Is there any place where God's light does not shine?

International Standard Version
Is there any limit to his armies? On whom does his light not shine?

JPS Tanakh 1917
Is there any number of His armies? And upon whom doth not His light arise?

Literal Standard Version
Is their [any] number to His troops? And on whom does His light not arise?

Majority Standard Bible
Can His troops be numbered? On whom does His light not rise?

New American Bible
Is there any numbering of his troops? Yet on which of them does his light not rise?

NET Bible
Can his armies be numbered? On whom does his light not rise?

New Revised Standard Version
Is there any number to his armies? Upon whom does his light not arise?

New Heart English Bible
Can his armies be counted? On whom does his light not arise?

Webster's Bible Translation
Is there any number of his armies? and upon whom doth not his light arise?

World English Bible
Can his armies be counted? On whom does his light not arise?

Young's Literal Translation
Is their any number to His troops? And on whom ariseth not His light?

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Context
Bildad: Man Cannot Be Righteous
2“Dominion and awe belong to God; He establishes harmony in the heights of heaven. 3 Can His troops be numbered? On whom does His light not rise? 4How then can a man be just before God? How can one born of woman be pure?…

Cross References
Job 16:13
His archers surround me. He pierces my kidneys without mercy and spills my gall on the ground.

Job 25:4
How then can a man be just before God? How can one born of woman be pure?


Treasury of Scripture

Is there any number of his armies? and on whom does not his light arise?

there

Psalm 103:20,21
Bless the LORD, ye his angels, that excel in strength, that do his commandments, hearkening unto the voice of his word…

Psalm 148:2-4
Praise ye him, all his angels: praise ye him, all his hosts…

Isaiah 40:26
Lift up your eyes on high, and behold who hath created these things, that bringeth out their host by number: he calleth them all by names by the greatness of his might, for that he is strong in power; not one faileth.

upon whom

Job 38:12,13
Hast thou commanded the morning since thy days; and caused the dayspring to know his place; …

Genesis 1:3-5,14-16
And God said, Let there be light: and there was light…

Psalm 19:4-6
Their line is gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. In them hath he set a tabernacle for the sun, …

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Job 25
1. Bildad shows that man cannot be justified before God














(3) Is there any number of his armies?--He is also so glorious that He dispenses of His glory to His innumerable hosts of angels. Glorious as they are, they but reflect His glory; and what then must not that be? but if so, how utterly hopeless for man to think he can have any purity to compete with His, or that He will acknowledge to be such. Man also is by nature and birth unclean. (Comp. Psalm 51:5.)

Verse 3. - Is there any number of his armies? (comp. Psalm 68:17, "The chariots of God are twenty thousand, even thousands of angels;" and Daniel 7:10, "Thousand thousands ministered unto him, and ten thousand times ten thousand stood before him;" see also 2 Kings 6:16, 17; Matthew 26:53; Hebrews 12:22; Revelation 9:16). The number of the angels at any given time must be a definite one. But as there is nothing to limit the further exercise of creative power in this direction, the possible number is indefinite. And upon whom doth not his light arise? Upon what being among all the countless thousands whom he hath created, or will create, does not the brightness of his effulgence shine in such sort that they are illumined by him, and them° selves shine with a mere reflected splendour?

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
Can His troops
לִגְדוּדָ֑יו (liḡ·ḏū·ḏāw)
Preposition-l | Noun - masculine plural construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's 1416: A band, troop

be numbered?
מִ֭סְפָּר (mis·pār)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 4557: A number, definite, indefinite, narration

On
וְעַל־ (wə·‘al-)
Conjunctive waw | Preposition
Strong's 5921: Above, over, upon, against

whom
מִ֝֗י (mî)
Interrogative
Strong's 4310: Who?, whoever, in oblique construction with prefix, suffix

does His light
אוֹרֵֽהוּ׃ (’ō·w·rê·hū)
Noun - common singular construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's 216: Illumination, luminary

not
לֹא־ (lō-)
Adverb - Negative particle
Strong's 3808: Not, no

rise?
יָק֥וּם (yā·qūm)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 6965: To arise, stand up, stand


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