< Job 25 >

1 Then Bildad the Shuhite replied:
Then Baldad the Sauchite answered and said,
2 “Dominion and awe belong to God; He establishes harmony in the heights of heaven.
What beginning or fear is his—even he that makes all things in the highest?
3 Can His troops be numbered? On whom does His light not rise?
For let none think that there is a respite for robbers: and upon whom will there not come a snare from him?
4 How then can a man be just before God? How can one born of woman be pure?
For how shall a mortal be just before the Lord? or who that is born of a woman shall purify himself?
5 If even the moon does not shine, and the stars are not pure in His sight,
If he gives an order to the moon, then it shines not; and the stars are not pure before him.
6 how much less man, who is but a maggot, and the son of man, who is but a worm!”
But alas! man is corruption, and the son of man a worm.

< Job 25 >