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“How then can any man be righteous in God’s eyes?
    How can one born of woman be regarded as virtuous?
If in his eyes the moon is not bright
    and the stars are not pure,
how much less is man, who is a maggot,
    a son of man, who is a worm?”

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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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