Bildad Speaks: Man Cannot Be Righteous

¹Then oBildad the Shuhite answered and said:

²“Dominion and fear are with God;1

he makes peace in his high heaven.

³Is there any number to his parmies?

Upon whom does his qlight not arise?

⁴How then can man be rin the right before God?

How can he who is sborn of woman be tpure?

⁵Behold, even the moon is not bright,

and the stars are not pure in his eyes;

⁶uhow much less man, who is va maggot,

and wthe son of man, who is a worm!”

Job Replies: God's Majesty Is Unsearchable

¹Then Job answered and said:

²“How you have xhelped him who has no power!

How you have saved ythe arm that has no strength!

³How you have zcounseled him who has no wisdom,

and plentifully declared sound knowledge!

⁴With whose help have you uttered words,

and whose breath ahas come out from you?

⁵The bdead tremble

under the waters and their inhabitants.

⁶Sheol is cnaked before God,1

and dAbaddon has no covering.

⁷He estretches out the north over fthe void

and hangs the earth on nothing.

⁸He gbinds up the waters in his thick clouds,

and the cloud is not split open under them.

⁹He covers the face of the full moon2

and hspreads over it his cloud.

¹⁰He has inscribed ia circle on the face of the waters

at the boundary between light and darkness.

¹¹jThe pillars of heaven tremble

and are astounded at his krebuke.

¹²By his power he lstilled the sea;

by his understanding he shattered mRahab.

¹³nBy his wind the heavens were made fair;

his hand pierced othe fleeing serpent.

¹⁴Behold, these are but the outskirts of his pways,

and how small qa whisper do we hear of him!

But the thunder of his power who can understand?”