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How can anyone claim to be right before God?
    No human being[a] can really be pure.
In God’s eyes even the moon is not pure and bright;
    even the stars are not pure.
People are much less pure.
    They are like maggots, as worthless as worms!”

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Footnotes

  1. Job 25:4 No human being Literally, “No one born from woman.”

How then can a mortal be righteous before God?
    How can one born of woman be pure?(A)
If even the moon(B) is not bright
    and the stars are not pure in his eyes,(C)
how much less a mortal, who is but a maggot—
    a human being,(D) who is only a worm!”(E)

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