Holy Scripture
Job 25:4
A church father on this verse
“Since he said, "You have not visited these yet," truly Bildad answers, "There is no respite for robbers." Therefore, he says the opposite of what happens, because there is respite. But in order to play a trick on Job, he speaks in this way. "How then can a mortal be righteous before God?" Indeed, he is necessarily pun…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
4For how shall a mortal be just before the Lord? Or who that is born of a woman shall purify himself?
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2What beginning or fear is his— Even he that makes all things in the highest?
3For let none think that there is a respite for robbers: And upon whom will there not come a snare from him?
— Job 25:4 —
5If he gives an order to the moon, then it shines not; And the stars are not pure before him.
6But alas! man is corruption, And the son of man a worm.