Job 25

1 Respondens autem Baldad Suhites, dixit:

Then Baldad the Sauchite answered and said,

2 Potestas et terror apud eum est, qui facit concordiam in sublimibus suis.

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

3 Numquid est numerus militum eius? et super quem non surget lumen illius?

For let none think that there is a respite for robbers: and upon whom will there not come a snare from him?

4 Numquid iustificari potest homo comparatus Deo, aut apparere mundus natus de muliere?

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

5 Ecce luna etiam non splendet, et stellæ non sunt mundæ in conspectu eius:

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

6 Quanto magis homo putredo, et filius hominis vermis?

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