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Bildad’s Third Speech

Then Bildad the Shuhite answered and said,

  “Domination and dread are with him

  who makes peace in his high heavens.

  Is there a number to his troops?

  And upon whom does his light not rise?

  “Indeed, how can a human being be righteous before God?

  And how will he who is born of a woman be pure?

  Look, even the moon is not bright,

  and the stars are not pure in his sight.

  How much less for a human being who is a maggot,

  and a human who is a worm?”