Job 25, side by side

Two versions of the same chapter. Each row is one verse, so you can see how the wording changes.

Modern

1Then Bildad the Shuhite replied:

Classic

1Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,

Modern

2“Dominion and awe belong to God; He establishes harmony in the heights of heaven.

Classic

2Dominion and fear are with him, he maketh peace in his high places.

Modern

3Can His troops be numbered? On whom does His light not rise?

Classic

3Is there any number of his armies? and upon whom doth not his light arise?

Modern

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

Classic

4How then can man be justified with God? or how can he be clean that is born of a woman?

Modern

5If even the moon does not shine, and the stars are not pure in His sight,

Classic

5Behold even to the moon, and it shineth not; yea, the stars are not pure in his sight.

Modern

6how much less man, who is but a maggot, and the son of man, who is but a worm!”

Classic

6How much less man, that is a worm? and the son of man, which is a worm?

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