< Job 25 >
1 Then Baldad the Sauchite answered and said,
Then Bildad the Shuhite replied:
2 What beginning or fear is his—even he that makes all things in the highest?
“Dominion and awe belong to God; He establishes harmony in the heights of heaven.
3 For let none think that there is a respite for robbers: and upon whom will there not come a snare from him?
Can His troops be numbered? On whom does His light not rise?
4 For how shall a mortal be just before the Lord? or who that is born of a woman shall purify himself?
How then can a man be just before God? How can one born of woman be pure?
5 If he gives an order to the moon, then it shines not; and the stars are not pure before him.
If even the moon does not shine, and the stars are not pure in His sight,
6 But alas! man is corruption, and the son of man a worm.
how much less man, who is but a maggot, and the son of man, who is but a worm!”