¹ Then Bildad the Shuhite replied:

² “Dominion and awe belong to God;
He establishes harmony in the heights of heaven.

³ Can His troops be numbered?
On whom does His light not rise?

⁴ How then can a man be just before God?
How can one born of woman be pure?

⁵ If even the moon does not shine,
and the stars are not pure in His sight,

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