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