Septuagint Bible w/ Apocrypha LXX
New Revised Standard w/ Apocrypha NRSA
1 Then Baldad the Sauchite answered and said,
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Then Bildad the Shuhite answered:
2 What beginning or fear is his—even he that makes all things in the highest?
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"Dominion and fear are with God; he makes peace in his high heaven.
3 For let none think that there is a respite for robbers: and upon whom will there not come a snare from him?
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Is there any number to his armies? Upon whom does his light not arise?
4 For how shall a mortal be just before the Lord? or who that is born of a woman shall purify himself?
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How then can a mortal be righteous before God? How can one born of woman be pure?
5 If he gives an order to the moon, then it shines not; and the stars are not pure before him.
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If even the moon is not bright and the stars are not pure in his sight,
6 But alas! man is corruption, and the son of man a worm.
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how much less a mortal, who is a maggot, and a human being, who is a worm!"
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