Job 25

1Then Bildad the Shuhite answered and said:[#At this point any structure in the dialogues disappears. Bildad’s speech is very short, and there follow two speeches attributed to Job, with significantly different introductions in 27:1 and 29:1, and with no intervening third speech of Zophar.]

2Dominion and dread are his

who brings about harmony in his heavens.

3Is there any numbering of his troops?[#: the heavenly host, or army, the stars (cf. Jgs 5:20), later understood as angels.]

Yet on which of them does his light not rise?

4How can anyone be in the right against God,[#Jb 4:17; 9:2; 35:2.]

or how can any born of woman be innocent?

5Even the moon is not bright

and the stars are not clean in his eyes.

6How much less a human being, who is but a worm,

a mortal, who is only a maggot?

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