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Job 25
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1Then Baldad the Sauchite answered and said,
1Then Bildad the Shuhite answered,
2What beginning or fear is his—even he that makes all things in the highest?
2“Dominion and fear are with him. He makes peace in his high places.
3For let none think that there is a respite for robbers: and upon whom will there not come a snare from him?
3Can his armies be counted? On whom does his light not arise?
4For how shall a mortal be just before the Lord? or who that is born of a woman shall purify himself?
4How then can man be just with God? Or how can he who is born of a woman be clean?
5If he gives an order to the moon , then it shines not; and the stars are not pure before him.
5Behold, even the moon has no brightness, and the stars are not pure in his sight;
6But alas! manis corruption, and the son of mana worm.
6How much less man, who is a worm, and the son of man, who is a worm!”