¹Bildad the Shuchi said,

²“Dominion and fear belong to him;

he makes peace in his high places.

³Can his armies be numbered?

On whom does his light not shine?

⁴How then can humans be righteous with God?

How can those born of women be clean?

⁵Why, before him even the moon lacks brightness,

and the stars themselves are not pure.

⁶How much less a human, who is merely a maggot,

a mortal, who is only a worm?!”