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Bildad Asks, Can Man Be Right with God?

25 Then Bildad the Shuhite answered and said,

(A)Rule and dread [a]belong to Him
Who makes peace in (B)His heights.
Is there any number to (C)His troops?
And upon whom does His light not rise?
How then can mortal man be (D)right with God?
Or how can he be (E)pure who is born of woman?
Behold even (F)the moon has no brightness,
And the (G)stars are not pure in His sight;
How much less (H)mortal man, that (I)maggot,
And the son of man, that worm!”

Footnotes

  1. Job 25:2 Lit are with Him

25 Then Baldad the Suhite answered, and I said:

Power and terror are with him, who maketh peace in his high places.

Is there any numbering of his soldiers? and upon whom shall not his light arise?

Can man be justified compared with God, or he that is born of a woman appear clean?

Behold even the moon doth not shine, and the stars are not pure in his sight.

How much less man that is rottenness and the son of man who is a worm?