Job 25

CATHOLIC PUBLIC DOMAIN	NEW JERUSALEM
1 Then Baldad the Suhite answered by saying:	1 Bildad of Shuah spoke next. He said:
2 Power and terror are with him that makes a pact with those in high places.	2 What sovereignty, what awe, is his who creates peace on his heights!
3 Is there any limit to the number of his soldiers or to the number of those over whom his light rises?	3 Who can count his armies? Against whom does his lightning not surge forth?
4 Is it right for man to compare himself to God, or to appear pure though he is born of woman?	4 Could anyone think God regards him as virtuous, the child of woman as pure!
5 Behold, even the moon is not radiant, and the stars are not pure, in his sight.	5 Why, the very moon lacks lustre, the very stars seem impure to him! The Shadows tremble underneaththe earth, the waters and their denizens are afraid.
6 Is man much more than rottenness and the son of man much more than worms?	6 How much less a human, this maggot, the child of man, this worm! Before his eyes, Sheol is bare,Perdition itself is uncovered.
	7 He it was who spread the North above the void and poised the earth on nothingness.
	8 He fastens up the waters in his clouds, without the clouds giving way under their weight.
	9 He covers the face of the full moon, spreading his cloud across it.
	10 He has traced a ring on the surface of the waters, at the boundary between light and dark.
	11 The pil ars of the heavens tremble, awe-struck at his threats.
	12 By his power, he has whipped up the Sea, by his skil , he has crushed Rahab.
	13 His breath has made the heavens luminous, his hand transfixed the Fleeing Serpent.
	14 This is only a fraction of what he has done and al we catch of it is the feeblest echo. But who canconceive the thunder of his power?