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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

Bildad Speaks: Man Cannot Be Righteous

25 Then Bildad the Shuhite answered:

“Dominion and fear are with Him;
    He makes peace in His high places.
Is there any number to His armies?
    And upon whom does His light not rise?
How then can man be righteous with God?
    Or how can he who is born of a woman be clean?
Behold, even the moon does not shine,
    and the stars are not pure in His sight;
how much less man, who is a maggot?
    And the son of man, who is a worm?”