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“Indeed,[a] how can a human being be righteous before God?
And how will he who is born of a woman be pure?
Look, even the moon is not bright,[b]
and the stars are not pure in his sight.
How much less[c] for a human being who is a maggot,
and a human[d] who is a worm?”

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Footnotes

  1. Job 25:4 Hebrew “And”
  2. Job 25:5 Literally “and it is not bright”
  3. Job 25:6 Literally “Also”
  4. Job 25:6 Literally “a son of man,” or “a son of Adam”

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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