^25:1Then Bildad the Shuhite answered:
²"Dominion and fear are with God;
he makes peace in his high heaven.
³Is there any number to his armies?
Upon whom does his light not arise?
⁴How then can a mortal be righteous before God?
How can one born of woman be pure?
⁵If even the moon is not bright
and the stars are not pure in his sight,
⁶how much less a mortal, who is a maggot,
and a human being, who is a worm!"

^26:1Then Job answered:
²"How you have helped one who has no power!
How you have assisted the arm that has no strength!
³How you have counseled one who has no wisdom,
and given much good advice!
⁴With whose help have you uttered words,
and whose spirit has come forth from you?
⁵The shades below tremble,
the waters and their inhabitants.
⁶Sheol is naked before God,
and Abaddon has no covering.
⁷He stretches out Zaphon over the void,
and hangs the earth upon nothing.
⁸He binds up the waters in his thick clouds,
and the cloud is not torn open by them.
⁹He covers the face of the full moon,
and spreads over it his cloud.
¹⁰He has described a circle on the face of the waters,
at the boundary between light and darkness.
¹¹The pillars of heaven tremble,
and are astounded at his rebuke.
¹²By his power he stilled the Sea;
by his understanding he struck down Rahab.
¹³By his wind the heavens were made fair;
his hand pierced the fleeing serpent.
¹⁴These are indeed but the outskirts of his ways;
and how small a whisper do we hear of him!
But the thunder of his power who can understand?"