1 Then Bildad the Shuhite answered and said,

2 What beginning or fear is his—

Even he that makes all things in the highest?

3 For let none think that there is a respite for robbers:

And upon whom will there not come a snare from him?

4 For how shall a mortal be just before the Lord?

Or who that is born of a woman shall purify himself?

5 If he gives an order to the moon, then it shines not;

And the stars are not pure before him.

6 But alas! man is corruption,

And the son of man a worm.