1 Then Bildad the Shuhite replied:

2 Dominion and dread  * belong to him,

the one who establishes harmony in his heights.

3 Can his troops be numbered?

Does his light not shine on everyone?

4 How can a human be justified before God?  *

How can one born of woman be pure?  *

5 If even the moon does not shine

and the stars are not pure in his sight,  *

6 how much less a human, who is a maggot,

a son of man,  * who is a worm!  *