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1 THEN BILDAD the Shuhite answered,
2 Dominion and fear are with [God]; He makes peace in His high places.
3 Is there any number to His armies? And upon whom does not His light arise?
4 How then can man be justified and righteous before God? Or how can he who is born of a woman be pure and clean? [Ps. 130:3; 143:2.]
5 Behold, even the moon has no brightness [compared to God's glory] and the stars are not pure in His sight--
6 How much less man, who is a maggot! And a son of man, who is a worm!
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