And how may a man [a]be justified with God? or how can he be clean that is born of woman?

Behold, he will give no light to the Moon, [b]and the Stars are unclean in his sight.

How much more man, a worm, even the son of man, which is but a worm?

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Footnotes

  1. Job 25:4 That is, be just in respect of God?
  2. Job 25:5 If God show his power, the Moon and Stars cannot have that light which is given them, much less can man have any excellency, but of God.

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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