Job 25

¹ Then Baldad the Sauchite answered and said,

² What ^[1][2]beginning or fear is his—

even he that maketh all things in the highest?

³ For let none think that there is a respite for robbers:

and upon whom will there not come a snare from him?

⁴ For how shall a mortal be just before the Lord?

or who that is born of a woman shall purify himself?

⁵ If he giveth an order to the moon, then it shineth not;

and the stars are not pure before him.

⁶ But alas! man is corruption,

and the son of man a worm.

Notes

1. 25:2 beginning: Compare chapter 27:1. προοίμιον, exordium, is in Job used in the sense of παροιμία, parable. ↩
2. In the New Testament παροιμία is almost always translated proverb, but in John 10:6 it is rendered parable, which seems to be the sense intended here. Probably προοίμιον is a mistake of the transcriber. ↩