25:1ff Bildad’s final reply was weak. It ignored Job’s examples of the prosperity of the wicked. Instead of attempting to refute Job, Bildad accused Job of pride because he was claiming that his suffering was not the result of sin. Job never claimed to be without sin, but only that his sin could not have caused his present trouble.
25:6 It is important to understand that Bildad, not God, was calling people worms. Human beings are created in God’s image (Genesis 1:26, 27). Psalm 8:5 says that people are “a little lower than the angels.” Bildad may have simply been using a poetic description to contrast our worth to the worth and power of God. To come to God, we need not crawl like worms. We can approach him boldly in faith (Hebrews 4:16).