Job 25 — parallel

25:1

Respondens autem Baldad Suhites, dixit :

Then Bildad the Shuhite replied:

25:2

Potestas et terror apud eum est, qui facit concordiam in sublimibus suis.

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

25:3

Numquid est numerus militum ejus ? et super quem non surget lumen illius ?

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

25:4

Numquid justificari potest homo comparatus Deo ? aut apparere mundus natus de muliere ?

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

25:5

Ecce luna etiam non splendet, et stellæ non sunt mundæ in conspectu ejus :

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

25:6

quanto magis homo putredo, et filius hominis vermis ?

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