1 Then Baldad the Sauchite answered and said, 2 What {In the New Testament paroimia is almost always translated proverb, but in Joh 10:6 it is rendered parable, which seems to be the sense intended here; Probably prooimion is a mistake of the transcriber} beginning or fear is his'even he that makes all things in the highest? 3 For let none think that there is a respite for robbers: and upon whom will there not come a snare from him? 4 For how shall a mortal be just before the Lord? or who that is born of a woman shall purify himself? 5 If he gives an order to the moon, then it shines not; and the stars are not pure before him. 6 But alas! man is corruption, and the son of man a worm.