1. Then Bildad the Shuhite answered:
2. “Dominion and awesome might belong to God;he establishes peace in his heights.
3. Can his armies be numbered?On whom does his light not rise?
4. How then can a human being be righteous before God?How can one born of a woman be pure?
5. If even the moon is not bright,and the stars are not pure as far as he is concerned,
6. how much less a mortal man, who is but a maggot – a son of man, who is only a worm!”