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Podcast 39, Stories of the Bible, “The Book of Job, Ch 25”

January 21, 2026 • Ronald • Season 7 • Episode 39

Podcast 39, Stories of the Bible, “The Book of Job, Ch 25”

In Chapter 25, the shortest chapter in Job, only six verses, Bildad curses man, calling him a worm. It may seem odd, but Chapter 25 of Job goes to the heart of the gospel of Jesus Christ: The answer to two of the greatest questions of the universe is at stake. Question One: What is Man? Question Two: What is the Son of Man. How we answer those questions determine our own future as well as the future of all mankind. We are defined by how we answer those questions. The Holy Bible is dedicated to answering those two questions. Who are we and what is our relationship with God? Who is Christ and what is his relationship to us? That question separates the sheep from the goats. It separates those whose names are written in the Book of Life and whose names are not written in the Book of Life.

The Holy Bible is dedicated to defining Christ. In the Old Testament God reveals to Moses that he is the Great I Am. ‘I Am’ can precede every title of Christ in the Bible. For Christ revealed to John the Revelator, “I am the faithful witness.’ ‘I am the first begotten of the dead.’ ‘I am the prince of the kings of the earth.’ In fact, the Book of Revelation probably has more titles of Christ than any other book in the Holy Bible. Bildad is definitely aligned with the goats.

Job 25:1-6

“Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said, Dominion and fear are with him, he maketh peace in his high places. Is there any number of his armies and upon whom doth not his light arise? How then can man be justified with God? or how can he be clean that is born of a woman? Behold even to the moon, and it shineth not; yea, the stars are not pure in his sight. How much less man, that is a worm? and the son of man, which is a worm?”

Bildad calls the Son of Man a worm! To contrast what Bildad has to say about man and the Son of Man, let’s turn to Psalm 8 by King David. The two passages of scripture beg to be compared because both deal with man and the son of man. Man represents the posterity of Adam and Eve. Son of Man represents Christ. Bildad does not believe in Christ. The Psalmist David does. Contrast the points of view of Bildad above with David.

Psalm 8:3-9

When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained; What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him? For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honour. Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet: All sheep and oxen, yea, and the beasts of the field; The fowl of the air, and the fish of the sea, and whatsoever passeth through the paths of the seas. O Lord our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth!

If Bildad is a goat, David is a sheep. It is very possible that David had Bildad in mind when he wrote the beautiful scripture above. It is very common in the Holy Bible for one writer to play off another writer, or one prophet another prophet. It is helpful to keep in mind that that God wrote the scriptures through his prophets. Time to God is unlike time to us. He sees the end from the beginning and all scriptures are one great whole. I propose that in the pure form there are no contradictions in scripture. All contradictions are manmade through various translations or even biases. Scriptures may be restated to fit man’s philosophy.