1 Then Bildad the Shuhite replied:
וַיַּעַן בִּלְדַּד הַשֻּׁחִי וַיֹּאמַֽר׃
2 “Dominion and awe belong to God; He establishes harmony in the heights of heaven.
הַמְשֵׁל וָפַחַד עִמּוֹ עֹשֶׂה שָׁלוֹם בִּמְרוֹמָֽיו׃
3 Can His troops be numbered? On whom does His light not rise?
הֲיֵשׁ מִסְפָּר לִגְדוּדָיו וְעַל־מִי לֹא־יָקוּם אוֹרֵֽהוּ׃
4 How then can a man be just before God? How can one born of woman be pure?
וּמַה־יִּצְדַּק אֱנוֹשׁ עִם־אֵל וּמַה־יִּזְכֶּה יְלוּד אִשָּֽׁה׃
5 If even the moon does not shine, and the stars are not pure in His sight,
הֵן עַד־יָרֵחַ וְלֹא יַאֲהִיל וְכוֹכָבִים לֹא־זַכּוּ בְעֵינָֽיו׃
6 how much less man, who is but a maggot, and the son of man, who is but a worm!”
אַף כִּֽי־אֱנוֹשׁ רִמָּה וּבֶן־אָדָם תּוֹלֵעָֽה׃
English: The Holy Bible, Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain; World English Bible and King James Version, public domain. Original text: STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge), license CC BY 4.0 — Hebrew from the Leningrad Codex and Greek from the Textus Receptus.