⁴ How then can a mortal be righteous before God?
    How can one born of woman be pure?^(A)
5 If even the moon^(B) is not bright
    and the stars are not pure in his eyes,^(C)
6 how much less a mortal, who is but a maggot—
    a human being,^(D) who is only a worm!”^(E)