¹Then Bildad the Shuhite spoke up and said,

²“Dominion and awe belong to God. He brings peace to his heavens.[#25:2. The term used here is to bring peace where there is strife.]

³Who can count his armies? Is there anywhere his light doesn't shine?

⁴How can a human being be right before God? Can anyone born of woman be pure?

⁵If in God's eyes even the moon does not shine brightly, and the stars are not pure,

⁶how much less a human being—who by comparison is like a maggot or a worm!”