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1 Then Bildad (the) Shuhite answered, and said,
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Then Baldad the Suhite answered, and I said:
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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Power and terror are with him, who maketh peace in his high places.
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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Is there any numbering of his soldiers? and upon whom shall not his light arise?
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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Can man be justified compared with God, or he that is born of a woman appear clean?
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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Behold even the moon doth not shine, and the stars are not pure in his sight.
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 man that is rottenness and the son of man who is a worm?
Copyright © 2001 by Terence P. Noble. For personal use only.
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