1Then Bildad the Shuhite answered:

2“Dominion and awesome might belong to God;
he establishes peace in his heights.

3Can his armies be numbered?
On whom does his light not rise?

4How then can a human being be righteous before God?
How can one born of a woman be pure?

5If even the moon is not bright,
and the stars are not pure as far as he is concerned,

6how much less a mortal man, who is but a maggot –
a son of man, who is only a worm!”