Job 25

1 Then Baldad the Suhite answered by saying:

Then responded Bildad the Shuhite, and said: —

2 Power and terror are with him that makes a pact with those in high places.

Dominion and dread, are with him, who causeth prosperity among his lofty ones;

3 Is there any limit to the number of his soldiers or to the number of those over whom his light rises?

Is there any number to his troops? And upon whom ariseth not his light?

4 Is it right for man to compare himself to God, or to appear pure though he is born of woman?

How then shall, a mortal, be just with GOD? Or how shall he be pure who is born of a woman?

5 Behold, even the moon is not radiant, and the stars are not pure, in his sight.

Look as far as the moon, and it is not clear, and, the stars, are not bright in his eyes!

6 Is man much more than rottenness and the son of man much more than worms?

How much less a mortal who is a creeping thing? Or a son of the earth-born who is a worm?