(A)How then can man be righteous before God?
Or how can he be (B)pure who is born of a woman?
If even the moon does not shine,
And the stars are not pure in His (C)sight,
How much less man, who is (D)a maggot,
And a son of man, who is a worm?”

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

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