1Then Bildad the Shuhite replied,2‘God is King. He should be feared. He establishes peace in the highest parts of heaven.3Can anyone count his troops? Is there anyone his light doesn’t shine on?4How can human beings be right with God? How can mere people really be pure?5Even the moon isn’t bright and the stars aren’t pure in God’s eyes.6So how about human beings? They are like maggots. How about mere people? They are like worms.’
Job 25
English Standard Version
Bildad Speaks: Man Cannot Be Righteous
1Then Bildad the Shuhite answered and said: (Job 2:11)2“Dominion and fear are with God;[1] he makes peace in his high heaven.3Is there any number to his armies? Upon whom does his light not arise? (Job 19:12; Ps 103:21; Mt 5:45; Jas 1:17)4How then can man be in the right before God? How can he who is born of woman be pure? (Job 4:17; Job 9:2; Job 14:1; Job 14:4; Job 15:14; Ps 130:3; Ps 143:2)5Behold, even the moon is not bright, and the stars are not pure in his eyes;6how much less man, who is a maggot, and the son of man, who is a worm!” (Job 9:14; Job 15:16; Job 35:8; Ps 22:6; Isa 41:14)