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Job 25
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1Then Baldad the Sauchite answered and said,
1Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,
2What beginning or fear is his—even he that makes all things in the highest?
2Dominion and fear are with him, he maketh 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?
3Is there any number of his armies? and upon whom doth not his light 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 justified with God? or how can he be clean that is born of a woman?
5If he gives an order to the moon, then it shines not; and the stars are not pure before him.
5Behold even to the moon, and it shineth not; yea, the stars are not pure in his sight.
6But alas! man is corruption, and the son of mana worm.
6How much less man, that is a worm? and the son of man, which is a worm?