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Bildad Answers

25 Then Bildad the Shuhite answered:

“God rules and must be honored.
    He set up order in his high heaven.
No one can count God’s armies.
    His light shines on all people.
So no man can be good in the presence of God.
    No one born to a woman can be pure.
Even the moon is not bright,
    and the stars are not pure in his eyes.
Man is much less! He is like an insect.
    He is only a worm!”

25 Then Bildad the Shuhite answered, and said,

“Power and fear are with Him Who makes peace in His places.

“Is there any number to His armies? And upon whom shall not His light arise?

“And how may a man be justified with God? Or how can he be clean who is born of woman?

“Behold, He will give no light to the Moon. And the stars are unclean in His sight.

“How much less so is man (a maggot) and the son of man (a worm)?”