Job 25 — parallel

25:1

Then Baldad the Sauchite answered and said,

Then Bildad the Shuhite replied:

25:2

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

“Dominion and awe belong to God; He establishes harmony in the heights of heaven.

25:3

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

Can His troops be numbered? On whom does His light not rise?

25:4

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

How then can a man be just before God? How can one born of woman be pure?

25:5

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

If even the moon does not shine, and the stars are not pure in His sight,

25:6

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

how much less man, who is but a maggot, and the son of man, who is but a worm!”