« | Job 25 | » |
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 man be righteous before God? How can he who is born of woman be clean?
5 Behold, even the moon is not bright and the stars are not clean in his sight;
6 how much less man, who is a maggot, and the son of man, who is a worm!"
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