In Job 25, Bildad speaks the truth in a sense, but he distorts matters when he speaks to Job or concerning him: Job 25:6 while true in the abstract must have felt like the pangs of a sword to Job. The rhetorical questions with presupposed negative answers in Job 25:4 are worth quoting: "How then can a mortal be righteous before God? How can one born of woman be pure?" (NIV)
Rebecca R. Clark writes:
Finally, Bildad asks, “How then can a mortal be righteous before God? How can one born of woman be pure?” (25:4).115 Ash proposes, “This is the answer of human religion. But it is also the satan’s answer.”116 Unbeknownst to Job’s friends, in aiming to proclaim the truth about God, they are spokesmen of the satan.117 Although the satan is not present in the remainder of the narrative, he continues to be voiced.
See https://firescholars.seu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1014&context=mats
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https://tyndalehouse.com/explore/articles/what-is-the-leviathan/
Interesting article and exploration of Satan's promotion of multiple false theologies that are still prominent today, most significantly, Prosperity Gospel.
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