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1 Then Bildad the Shuhite answered and said:
2 Dominion and awesomeness are his who brings about harmony in his heavens.
3 Is there any numbering of his troops? Yet to which of them does not his light extend?
4 How can a man be just in God's sight, or how can any woman's child be innocent?
5 Behold, even the moon is not bright and the stars are not clear in his sight.
6 How much less man, who is but a maggot, the son of man, who is only a worm?
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