< Job 25 >
1 Then Bildad the Shuhite answered and said,
Then answered Bildad the Shuchite, and said,
2 “Dominion and fear are with him; he makes order in his high places of heaven.
Dominion and dread are with him: he maketh peace in high places.
3 Is there any end to the number of his armies? Upon whom does his light not shine?
Can the number of his hosts be given? and over whom riseth not his light?
4 How then can man be righteous with God? How can he who is born of a woman be clean, acceptable to him?
How then can man be justified with God? or how can be one that is born of woman?
5 See, even the moon has no brightness to him; the stars are not pure in his sight.
Behold, even as regardeth the moon, that is not bright; yea, the stars are not pure in his eyes.
6 How much less man, who is a worm— a son of man, who is a worm!”
How much less the mortal, the mere worm? and the son of earth, the mere maggot?