Bildad Speaks: Man Cannot Be Righteous

¹ Then Bildad the Shuhite answered and said:

² “ Dominion and fear are with God; he makes peace in his high heaven.

³ Is there any number to his armies? Upon whom does his light not arise?

⁴ How then can man be in the right before God? How can he who is born of woman be pure?

⁵ Behold, even the moon is not bright, and the stars are not pure in his eyes;

⁶ how much less man, who is a maggot, and w the son of man, who is a worm!”