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Bildad Answers

25 Then Bildad the Shuhite answered:

“·God rules and he must be honored [L Rule/Dominion and dread are with him];
    he ·set up order [establishes peace] in his high heaven.
·No one can count God’s armies [L Is there a number to his troops?].
    ·His light shines on all people [L Upon whom does his light not rise?].
·So no one can be good [What mortal can be righteous…?] in the presence of God,
    and ·no one [who…?] born to a woman can be pure.
Even the moon is not bright
    and the stars are not pure in his eyes.
People are much less! They are like ·insects [L maggots].
    They are only worms!”

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Bildad Says Man Is Inferior

25 Then Bildad the Shuhite answered and said,


“Dominion and awe belong to God;
He establishes peace and order in His high places.

“Is there any number to His [vast celestial] armies?
And upon whom does His light not rise?

“How then can man be justified and righteous with God?
Or how can he who is born of a woman be pure and clean?(A)

“Behold, even the moon has no brightness [compared to God’s majesty and glory]
And the stars are not pure in His sight,

How much less man, that maggot,
And the son of man, that worm!”

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Bildad

25 Then Bildad the Shuhite(A) replied:

“Dominion and awe belong to God;(B)
    he establishes order in the heights of heaven.(C)
Can his forces be numbered?
    On whom does his light not rise?(D)
How then can a mortal be righteous before God?
    How can one born of woman be pure?(E)
If even the moon(F) is not bright
    and the stars are not pure in his eyes,(G)
how much less a mortal, who is but a maggot—
    a human being,(H) who is only a worm!”(I)

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