| | 1 | Then Bildad the Shuhite replied: | |
| | 2 | "Dominion and awe belong to God; he establishes order in the heights of heaven. | |
| | 3 | Can his forces be numbered? Upon whom does his light not rise? | |
| | 4 | How then can a man be righteous before God? How can one born of woman be pure? | |
| | 5 | If even the moon is not bright and the stars are not pure in his eyes, | |
| | 6 | how much less man, who is but a maggot--a son of man, who is only a worm!" | |
