Job 25: Bildad in Brief

Job 25:4 "How then can a man be righteous before God? How can one born of woman be pure?"

Bildad takes another crack in this, the shortest chapter I've read so far. 

He asks no one in particular (Job) who can be righteous before God? Well, there are people who have been righteous before God (Noah, Abraham, Elijah, David...and Job, but Bildad doesn't know that). Perfect, sinless...no. Of course not. But these are not synonymous terms. 

God decides according to His own criteria who is righteous. So in a sense, Bildad is right that no one can claim to be "righteous." But in this case, he is off target.