Job 25

¹ Bildad of Shuah spoke next. He said:

² What sovereignty, what awe, is his who creates peace on his heights!

³ Who can count his armies? Against whom does his lightning not surge forth?

⁴ Could anyone think God regards him as virtuous, the child of woman as pure!

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 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?