[1]Then Baldad the Sauchite answered and said,[2]What beginning or fear is his—even he that makes 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 gives an order to the moon, then it shines not; and the stars are not pure before him.[6]But alas! man is corruption, and the son of man a worm.
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Author: Sir Lancelot Charles Lee Brenton (1851)
Source: ecmarsh.com