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 the son of man, who is a worm!”