¹Then Bildad the Shuhite answered: ²“Dominion and awesome might belong to God; he establishes peace in his heights. ³Can his armies be numbered? On whom does his light not rise? ⁴How then can a human being be righteous before God? How can one born of a woman be pure? ⁵If even the moon is not bright, and the stars are not pure as far as he is concerned, ⁶how much less a mortal man, who is but a maggot— a son of man, who is only a worm!”