Job 25

1 Then Bildad [also] replied,

Then answered Bildad the Shuchite, and said,

2 “God is very powerful; everyone should have an awesome respect for him; he causes everything to be peaceful high up in heaven.

Dominion and dread are with him: he maketh peace in high places.

3 (Can anyone count the angels who are in his army [in heaven]?/No one can count the angels who are in his army [in heaven].) [RHQ] (Is there any place where his light does not shine?/There is no place where his light does not shine.) [RHQ]

Can the number of his hosts be given? and over whom riseth not his light?

4 So, (how can God consider anyone to be righteous?/God certainly cannot consider anyone to be righteous.) [RHQ] (How can any human being be truly pure?/No human being can be truly pure.) [RHQ]

How then can man be justified with God? or how can be one that is born of woman?

5 Consider this: God does not even consider the full moon to be bright, and he does not consider the stars to be spotless.

Behold, even as regardeth the moon, that is not bright; yea, the stars are not pure in his eyes.

6 So, (what about humans?/he does not consider humans [to be important].) [RHQ] They are [as insignificant as] [MET] maggots. [God does not think more highly of] people [than he thinks of] worms.”

How much less the mortal, the mere worm? and the son of earth, the mere maggot?