Bildad Speaks

25 Then Bildad the Shuhite replied:

Dominion and dread(A) belong to Him,
the One who establishes harmony in the heavens.[a]
Can His troops be numbered?
Does His light not shine on everyone?
How can a person be justified before God?(B)
How can one born of woman be pure?(C)
If even the moon does not shine
and the stars are not pure in His sight,(D)
how much less man, who is a maggot,
and the son of man, who is a worm!(E)

Footnotes

  1. Job 25:2 Lit in His heights

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 answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,

Dominion and fear are with him, he maketh peace in his high places.

Is there any number of his armies? and upon whom doth not his light arise?

How then can man be justified with God? or how can he be clean that is born of a woman?

Behold even to the moon, and it shineth not; yea, the stars are not pure in his sight.

How much less man, that is a worm? and the son of man, which is a worm?