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!’
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)