² “Domination and dread are with him
who makes peace in his high heavens.
³ Is there a number to his troops?
And upon whom does his light not rise?
⁴ “Indeed,^[c] how can a human being be righteous before God?
And how will he who is born of a woman be pure?
⁵ Look, even the moon is not bright,^[d]
and the stars are not pure in his sight.
⁶ How much less^[e] for a human being who is a maggot,
and a human^[f] who is a worm?”