1  Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said

2  Dominion and fear are with Him; He maketh peace in His high places.

2  What beginning or fear is his—even he that makes all things in the highest?

2  Power and terror are with him that makes a pact with those in high places.

3  Is there any number of His armies? And upon whom doth not His light arise?

3  For let none think that there is a respite for robbers: and upon whom will there not come a snare from him?

3  Is there any limit to the number of his soldiers or to the number of those over whom his light rises?

4  How then can man be just with God? Or how can he be clean that is born of a woman?

4  For how shall a mortal be just before the Lord? or who that is born of a woman shall purify himself?

4  Is it right for man to compare himself to God, or to appear pure though he is born of woman?

5  Behold, even the moon hath no brightness, and the stars are not pure in His sight;

5  If he gives an order to the moon, then it shines not; and the stars are not pure before him.

6  How much less man, that is a worm! and the son of man, that is a maggot!

6  But alas! man is corruption, and the son of man a worm.

6  Is man much more than rottenness and the son of man much more than worms?