Respondens autem Baldad Suhites, dixit :
Then Baldad the Suhite answered, and said:
Potestas et terror apud eum est, qui facit concordiam in sublimibus suis.
Power and terror are with him, who maketh peace in his high places.
Numquid est numerus militum ejus ? et super quem non surget lumen illius ?
Is there any numbering of his soldiers? and upon whom shall not his light arise?
Numquid justificari potest homo comparatus Deo ? aut apparere mundus natus de muliere ?
Can man be justified compared with God, or he that is born of a woman appear clean?
Ecce luna etiam non splendet, et stellæ non sunt mundæ in conspectu ejus :
Behold even the moon doth not shine, and the stars are not pure in his sight.
quanto magis homo putredo, et filius hominis vermis ?
How much more is man than rottenness and the son of man than a worm?