Subject: Salvation - Job 25-26

Job 25:4 (ESV Strong's)
How then can man be in the right before God?
How can he who is born of woman be pure?

Subject:  Salvation

Bildad, one of Job's three friends, is not attempting to show Job his sinfulness and, by implication, why he deserves to suffer at the hands of God.   Although Bildad is wrong to attribute Job's suffering to Job's sin, he is correct in asking the above questions.   Again, Job's friends were often right in their theology, but considerably off in their application (doesn't that sound familiar with our own world?).   Bildad brings up a great point that all men should consider.   Since God is holy, how can man be "right before God?"    Since we are born of a women, how can we be "pure?"   Although you can find the answer to this question in every book in the Bible (as all books point to Christ in either statement, or symbol), Paul makes this completely clear in the following verses:

Romans 5:1 (ESV Strong's)
Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.

Romans 5:11 (ESV Strong's)
More than that, we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received reconciliation.

Romans 8:1 (ESV Strong's)
There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.

It is through Christ that we are delivered from the wages of sin and the way of sin.    How can a man be pure before God?  By believing in the Son who paid for the sin of man.    Bildad asks the question, Paul gives the answer.