1. Then Bildad the Shuhite answered:
2. “Dominion and awesome might belong to God;
2. he establishes peace in his heights.
3. Can his armies be numbered?
3. On whom does his light not rise?
4. How then can a human being be righteous before God?
4. How can one born of a woman be pure?
5. If even the moon is not bright,
5. and the stars are not pure as far as he is concerned,
6. how much less a mortal man, who is but a maggot –
6. a son of man, who is only a worm!”