Bildad’s Third Speech55

25:1 Then Bildad the Shuhite answered:

25:2 “Dominion1 and awesome might2 belong to3 God;

he establishes peace in his heights.4

25:3 Can his armies be numbered?5

On whom does his light6 not rise?

25:4 How then can a human being be righteous before God?

How can one born of a woman be pure?7

25:5 If even the moon is not bright,

and the stars are not pure as far as he is concerned,8

25:6 how much less a mortal man, who is but a maggot9—

a son of man, who is only a worm!”