Job 25

1 Then responded Bildad the Shuhite, and said: —

Then Baldad the Sauchite answered and said,

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

What beginning or fear is his—even he that makes all things in the highest?

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

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

For how shall a mortal be just before the Lord? or who that is born of a woman shall purify himself?

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

If he gives an order to the moon, then it shines not; and the stars are not pure before him.

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

But alas! man is corruption, and the son of man a worm.