1 Then Bildad the Shuhite answered:

2 "Dominion and fear are with God; he makes peace in his high heaven.

3 Is there any number to his armies? Upon whom does his light not arise?

4 How then can a mortal be righteous before God? How can one born of woman be pure?

5 If even the moon is not bright and the stars are not pure in his sight,

6 how much less a mortal, who is a maggot, and a human being, who is a worm!"