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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!"
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