² Supreme power and awe belong to God;
    he establishes peace on his heights.
³ Can his troops be counted?
    On whom does his light not rise?
⁴ How can a person be innocent before God;
    one born of a woman be pure?
⁵ If even the moon is not bright
        and the stars not pure in his eyes,
⁶     how much less a human, a worm,
        a person’s child, a grub.

² Supreme power and awe belong to God;
    he establishes peace on his heights.
³ Can his troops be counted?
    On whom does his light not rise?
⁴ How can a person be innocent before God;
    one born of a woman be pure?
⁵ If even the moon is not bright
        and the stars not pure in his eyes,
⁶     how much less a human, a worm,
        a person’s child, a grub.