| New Living Translation | NET Bible |
| 1Then Bildad the Shuhite replied: | 1Then Bildad the Shuhite answered: |
| 2“God is powerful and dreadful. He enforces peace in the heavens. | 2"Dominion and awesome might belong to God; he establishes peace in his heights. |
| 3Who is able to count his heavenly army? Doesn’t his light shine on all the earth? | 3Can his armies be numbered? On whom does his light not rise? |
| 4How can a mortal be innocent before God? Can anyone born of a woman be pure? | 4How then can a human being be righteous before God? How can one born of a woman be pure? |
| 5God is more glorious than the moon; he shines brighter than the stars. | 5If even the moon is not bright, and the stars are not pure as far as he is concerned, |
| 6In comparison, people are maggots; we mortals are mere worms.” | 6how much less a mortal man, who is but a maggot--a son of man, who is only a worm!" |
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