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1 Then Bildad (the) Shuhite answered, and said,
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Then Bildad the Shuhite replied:
2 Power and dread is with him, that is, God, which maketh according in his high things. (Power and reverence is with God/Power and fear is with God, who maketh peace in all his high places.)
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“Dominion and awe belong to God; he establishes order in the heights of heaven.
3 Whether there is (a) number of his knights? (Can his host be counted?) and upon whom shineth not his light?
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Can his forces be numbered? On whom does his light not rise?
4 Whether a man comparisoned to God may be justified, either a man born of a woman may appear clean? (Can a man be justified when compared to God, or can a man born of a woman ever be pure, or innocent?)
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How then can a mortal be righteous before God? How can one born of woman be pure?
5 Lo! also the moon shineth not, and [the] stars be not clean in his sight; (Lo! to his eyes, the moon shineth not, and the stars be not pure;)
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If even the moon is not bright and the stars are not pure in his eyes,
6 how much more man, that is rot, and the son of a man, that is a worm, is unclean, (and vile,) in comparison to God. (and so how much more a man, who is but rot, and the son of a man, who is but a worm, be unclean, and vile, when compared to God.)
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how much less a mortal, who is but a maggot— a human being, who is only a worm!”
Copyright © 2001 by Terence P. Noble. For personal use only.
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