Job 25 — Hebrew and Greek compared
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Chapter 25
Bildad on divine greatness and human frailty
Source chapters: [BHS25] Hebrew; [LXX25] Greek.
Verse 25:1 Same
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
25:1 Bildad the Shuhite answered and said:
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
25:1 Then Bildad the Shuhite replied:
Classification & Notes
Same. Text: Both identify Bildad.
Verse 25:2 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
25:2 “Dominion and dread are with Him;
He makes peace in His heights.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
25:2 “For what prelude or fear comes from Him,
the One who makes the whole in the highest?
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek prooimion means prelude or beginning, not Hebrew dominion, and has no explicit peace. The feminine the whole has an unexpressed noun, provisionally the whole creation; the syntax is difficult.
Verse 25:3 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
25:3 Can His troops be numbered?
Upon whom does His light not rise?
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
25:3 For could anyone suppose that there is a reprieve for raiders?
Upon whom will an ambush from Him not come?
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek reprieve for raiders and universal ambush replace Hebrew innumerable troops and all-reaching light.
Verse 25:4 Similar
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
25:4 How can a mortal be righteous before God,
and how can one born of woman be pure?
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
25:4 For how will a mortal be righteous before the Lord?
Or who, being born of woman, could cleanse himself?
Classification & Notes
Similar. Text: Greek explicitly describes self-cleansing, while Hebrew asks about purity.
Verse 25:5 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
25:5 Look, even the moon does not shine brightly,
and the stars are not pure in His eyes;
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
25:5 If He gives the moon a command, it does not shine;
the stars are not pure before Him.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek explicitly connects the moon’s darkness to a divine command.
Verse 25:6 Similar
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
25:6 how much less a mortal, a maggot,
a son of humanity, a worm!”
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
25:6 Leave it, then: a human is decay,
and a son of humanity a worm.”
Classification & Notes
Similar. Text: Greek decay differs from Hebrew maggot and uses a dismissive imperative rather than the lesser comparison.