When Adam and Eve were created, they were both human and divine at the same time. When they ate the forbidden fruit and sinned against God, they lost their divinity but not their humanity. Men are sinners, but they are still men; they are not maggots, as Bildad describes them.
“Can anyone born of a woman be pure?”, Bildad asks rhetorically. If the answer is yes, then where is the need for a Redeemer; one who, as Job says prophetically, “will stand upon the earth at last”?
But if the answer is no, and there is no Redeemer, then men are without hope. And although they are much greater than maggots, they share the same eternal destiny.
