Then Baldad the Sauchite answered and said,
What beginning or fear is his—even he that makes all things in the highest?
For let none think that there is a respite for robbers: and upon whom will there not come a snare from him?
For how shall a mortal be just before the Lord? or who that is born of a woman shall purify himself?
If he gives an order to the moon, then it shines not; and the stars are not pure before him.
But alas! man is corruption, and the son of man a worm.