1Then Bildad the Shuhite replied:2‘Dominion and awe belong to God; he establishes order in the heights of heaven.3Can his forces be numbered? On whom does his light not rise?4How then can a mortal be righteous before God? How can one born of woman be pure?5If even the moon is not bright and the stars are not pure in his eyes,6how much less a mortal, who is but a maggot – a human being, who is only a worm!’