1. Then Bildad the Shuhite answered and said,
2. “Domination and dread are with him
2. who makes peace in his high heavens.
3. Is there a number to his troops?
3. And upon whom does his light not rise?
4. “Indeed, how can a human being be righteous before God?
4. And how will he who is born of a woman be pure?
5. Look, even the moon is not bright,
5. and the stars are not pure in his sight.
6. How much less for a human being who is a maggot,
6. and a human who is a worm?”