¹ Then Bildad the Shuhite answered, ² “Dominion and awe belong to Him
Who establishes peace in His heights. ³ “Is there any number to His troops?
And upon whom does His light not rise? ⁴ “How then can a man be just with God?
Or how can he be clean who is born of woman? ⁵ “If even the moon has no brightness
And the stars are not pure in His sight, ⁶ How much less man, that maggot,
And the son of man, that worm!”