< Job 25 >
1 Then Baldad the Sauchite answered and said,
Then Baldad the Suhite answered by saying:
2 What beginning or fear is his—even he that makes all things in the highest?
Power and terror are with him that makes a pact with those in high places.
3 For let none think that there is a respite for robbers: and upon whom will there not come a snare from him?
Is there any limit to the number of his soldiers or to the number of those over whom his light rises?
4 For how shall a mortal be just before the Lord? or who that is born of a woman shall purify himself?
Is it right for man to compare himself to God, or to appear pure though he is born of woman?
5 If he gives an order to the moon, then it shines not; and the stars are not pure before him.
Behold, even the moon is not radiant, and the stars are not pure, in his sight.
6 But alas! man is corruption, and the son of man a worm.
Is man much more than rottenness and the son of man much more than worms?