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25 Then Bildad the Shuhite responded.

Bildad: God rules over all things;
        dread is His domain,
    God—who makes peace and order on His own heights.
    As for His armies, can they even be counted?
        As for His light, is anyone not illuminated?
    Then tell me how can a person be right with God?
        How can someone born of a woman in blood be pure?
    If even the moon is not bright enough
        and the light of the stars is not pure in His estimation,
    How much less so a human,
        who is a mere worm—
    The offspring of humanity,
        who is a maggot!

Bildad

25 Then Bildad the Shuhite(A) replied:

“Dominion and awe belong to God;(B)
    he establishes order in the heights of heaven.(C)
Can his forces be numbered?
    On whom does his light not rise?(D)
How then can a mortal be righteous before God?
    How can one born of woman be pure?(E)
If even the moon(F) is not bright
    and the stars are not pure in his eyes,(G)
how much less a mortal, who is but a maggot—
    a human being,(H) who is only a worm!”(I)

25 Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,

Dominion and fear are with him, he maketh peace in his high places.

Is there any number of his armies? and upon whom doth not his light arise?

How then can man be justified with God? or how can he be clean that is born of a woman?

Behold even to the moon, and it shineth not; yea, the stars are not pure in his sight.

How much less man, that is a worm? and the son of man, which is a worm?