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Job 25


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DOUAI-RHEIMSNEW JERUSALEM
1 Then Baldad the Suhite answered, and I said:1 Bildad of Shuah spoke next. He said:
2 Power and terror are with him, who maketh peace in his high places.2 What sovereignty, what awe, is his who creates peace on his heights!
3 Is there any numbering of his soldiers? and upon whom shall not his light arise?3 Who can count his armies? Against whom does his lightning not surge forth?
4 Can man be justified compared with God, or he that is born of a woman appear clean?4 Could anyone think God regards him as virtuous, the child of woman as pure!
5 Behold even the moon doth not shine, 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 How much less man that is rottenness and the son of man who is a worm?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?