Job 25

Bildad Speaks: Man Cannot Be Righteous

1Then Bildad the Shuhite answered and said:[#2:11]

2“Dominion and fear are with God;[#25:2 Hebrew]

he makes peace in his high heaven.

3Is there any number to his armies?[#19:12; Ps. 103:21]

Upon whom does his light not arise?

4How then can man be in the right before God?[#4:17-19; 9:2; 15:14-16; Ps. 130:3; 143:2]

How can he who is born of woman be pure?

5Behold, even the moon is not bright,

and the stars are not pure in his eyes;

6how much less man, who is a maggot,[#9:14; 15:16; #Ps. 22:6; Isa. 41:14]

and the son of man, who is a worm!”

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