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The Third Speech of Bildad

25 Then Bildad the Shuhite replied,

“God is King. He should be feared.
    He establishes peace in the highest parts of heaven.
Can anyone count his troops?
    Is there anyone his light doesn’t shine on?
How can human beings be right with God?
    How can mere people really be pure?
Even the moon isn’t bright
    and the stars aren’t pure in God’s eyes.
So how about human beings? They are like maggots.
    How about mere people? They are like worms.”

Bildad

25 Then Bildad the Shuhite(A) replied:

“Dominion and awe belong to God;(B)
    he establishes order in the heights of heaven.(C)
Can his forces be numbered?
    On whom does his light not rise?(D)
How then can a mortal be righteous before God?
    How can one born of woman be pure?(E)
If even the moon(F) is not bright
    and the stars are not pure in his eyes,(G)
how much less a mortal, who is but a maggot—
    a human being,(H) who is only a worm!”(I)

Bildad Speaks: Man Cannot Be Righteous

25 Then (A)Bildad the Shuhite answered and said:

“Dominion and fear are with God;[a]
    he makes peace in his high heaven.
Is there any number to his (B)armies?
    Upon whom does his (C)light not arise?
How then can man be (D)in the right before God?
    How can he who is (E)born of woman be (F)pure?
Behold, even the moon is not bright,
    and the stars are not pure in his eyes;
(G)how much less man, who is (H)a maggot,
    and (I)the son of man, who is a worm!”

Footnotes

  1. Job 25:2 Hebrew him

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?

Grandeza de Dios en las alturas

25 Bildad de Súaj respondió así:

Dios tiene un poder temible,
impone la paz en las alturas.
¿Quién puede enumerar sus tropas?
¿Sobre quién no se alza su luz?
¿Puede ser justo el mortal ante Dios,
o puro el que ha nacido de mujer?
¡Si hasta la luna carece de brillo
y los astros no son puros a sus ojos!
¡Cuánto menos el mortal,
un gusano, el ser humano,
que sólo es una larva!