Job 25
New Living Translation
Chapter overview
Bildad gives a short final speech on God's dominion and the numberless armies of heaven, before whom peace is established in the heights. If even the moon and the stars are not pure in God's sight, he asks, how can a human being, a worm born of woman, be righteous?
BildadDivine dominionHuman frailtyCosmos
1Then Bildad the Shuhite replied:
2“God is powerful and dreadful. He enforces peace in the heavens.
3Who is able to count his heavenly army? Doesn’t his light shine on all the earth?
4How can a mortal be innocent before God? Can anyone born of a woman be pure?
5God is more glorious than the moon; he shines brighter than the stars.
6In comparison, people are maggots; we mortals are mere worms.”
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