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Bildad Speaks: How Can a Mortal Be Righteous Before God?

25Then Bildad the Shuhite answered:
² ‘Dominion and fear are with God;^*
   he makes peace in his high heaven.
³ Is there any number to his armies?
   Upon whom does his light not arise?
⁴ How then can a mortal be righteous before God?
   How can one born of woman be pure?
⁵ If even the moon is not bright
   and the stars are not pure in his sight,
⁶ how much less a mortal, who is a maggot,
   and a human being, who is a worm!’

Job Replies: God’s Majesty Is Unsearchable

26Then Job answered:
² ‘How you have helped one who has no power!
   How you have assisted the arm that has no strength!
³ How you have counselled one who has no wisdom,
   and given much good advice!
⁴ With whose help have you uttered words,
   and whose spirit has come forth from you?
⁵ The shades below tremble,
   the waters and their inhabitants.
⁶ Sheol is naked before God,
   and Abaddon has no covering.
⁷ He stretches out Zaphon^* over the void,
   and hangs the earth upon nothing.
⁸ He binds up the waters in his thick clouds,
   and the cloud is not torn open by them.
⁹ He covers the face of the full moon,
   and spreads over it his cloud.
¹⁰ He has described a circle on the face of the waters,
   at the boundary between light and darkness.
¹¹ The pillars of heaven tremble,
   and are astounded at his rebuke.
¹² By his power he stilled the Sea;
   by his understanding he struck down Rahab.
¹³ By his wind the heavens were made fair;
   his hand pierced the fleeing serpent.
¹⁴ These are indeed but the outskirts of his ways;
   and how small a whisper do we hear of him!
   But the thunder of his power who can understand?’