¹THEN BILDAD the Shuhite answered,

²Dominion and fear are with [God]; He makes peace in His high places.

³Is there any number to His armies? And upon whom does not His light arise?

⁴How then can man be justified and righteous before God? Or how can he who is born of a woman be pure and clean? [Ps. 130:3; 143:2.]

⁵Behold, even the moon has no brightness [compared to God's glory] and the stars are not pure in His sight–

⁶How much less man, who is a maggot! And a son of man, who is a worm!