Job 25

Bildad Speaks: How Can a Mortal Be Righteous Before God?

¹Then Bildad the Shuhite answered:

²“Dominion and fear are with God;[#25.2 Heb]

he makes peace in his high heaven.

³Is there any number to his armies?

Upon whom does his light not arise?

⁴How then can a mortal be righteous before God?

How can one born of woman be pure?

⁵If even the moon is not bright

and the stars are not pure in his sight,

⁶how much less a mortal, who is a maggot,

and a human being, who is a worm!”