"How then can a man be just with God?Bildad has a good question here. He is saying that God is supreme over all, including man. He has total control over everything. He is the definition of holiness and purity, where man is fallen and sinful. Therefore, how can a person presume to be on equal moral footing with God?
Or how can he be clean who is born of woman?
The answer, of course, is that he can't. No one can be just innately before God. We all have sinned, and therefore are below God. However, God has given us a pathway to become acceptable to him. It is difficult, and different now from what it was in Job's day, but it is there. Then it was by works, but constantly having to sacrifice for every sin (which meant knowing when you had sinned). Today it is by surrendering ourselves to Christ, and accepting his death in exchange for ours. Both are simply, but neither is easy. And there can be no other way to attain that righteousness.
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