Job 25

1 Then responded Bildad the Shuhite, and said: —

Then Bildad the Shuhite replied:

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

“Dominion and awe belong to God; He establishes harmony in the heights of heaven.

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

Can His troops be numbered? On whom does His light not rise?

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

How then can a man be just before God? How can one born of woman be pure?

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

If even the moon does not shine, and the stars are not pure in His sight,

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

how much less man, who is but a maggot, and the son of man, who is but a worm!”