| 1 | Then Bildad the Shuhite answered: |
| 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 a mortal 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 sight, |
| 6 | how much less a mortal, who is a maggot, and a human being, who is a worm!” |