Job 25

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1 Bildad of Shuah spoke next. He said:	1 Then Bildad the Shuhite answered and said:
2 What sovereignty, what awe, is his who creates peace on his heights!	2 Dominion and awesomeness are his who brings about harmony in his heavens.
3 Who can count his armies? Against whom does his lightning not surge forth?	3 Is there any numbering of his troops? Yet to which of them does not his light extend?
4 Could anyone think God regards him as virtuous, the child of woman as pure!	4 How can a man be just in God's sight, or how can any woman's child be innocent?
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.	5 Behold, even the moon is not bright and the stars are not clear in his sight.
6 How much less a human, this maggot, the child of man, this worm! Before his eyes, Sheol is bare,Perdition itself is uncovered.	6 How much less man, who is but a maggot, the son of man, who is only a worm?
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?