1. Then Bildad the Shuhite replied:
2. “God is powerful and dreadful.He enforces peace in the heavens.
3. Who is able to count his heavenly army?Doesn’t his light shine on all the earth?
4. How can a mortal be innocent before God?Can anyone born of a woman be pure?
5. God is more glorious than the moon;he shines brighter than the stars.
6. In comparison, people are maggots;we mortals are mere worms.”