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New Living Translation NLT
1 Then Bildad the Shuhite answered and said:
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Then Bildad the Shuhite replied:
2 “Dominion and fear are with God; he makes peace in his high heaven.
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“God is powerful and dreadful. He enforces peace in the heavens.
3 Is there any number to his armies? Upon whom does his light not arise?
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Who is able to count his heavenly army? Doesn’t his light shine on all the earth?
4 How then can man be in the right before God? How can he who is born of woman be pure?
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How can a mortal be innocent before God? Can anyone born of a woman be pure?
5 Behold, even the moon is not bright, and the stars are not pure in his eyes;
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God is more glorious than the moon; he shines brighter than the stars.
6 how much less man, who is a maggot, and the son of man, who is a worm! ”
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In comparison, people are maggots; we mortals are mere worms.”
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