Respondens autem Baldad Suhites, dixit:

Then answered Baldad the Suhite:

Then Baldad the Suhite answered, and said:

Potestas et terror apud eum est, qui facit concordiam in sublimibus suis.

Ay, but what power, ay, but what terrors he wields, who reigns peacefully, there in high heaven!

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?

He, the lord of countless armies, he, whose light dazzles every eye!

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?

And shall man, born of woman, win his suit, prove his innocence, when he is matched with God?

Can men be justified compared with God, or he that is born of a women appear clean?

Ecce luna etiam non splendet, et stellæ non sunt mundæ in conspectu ejus:

Dim shews the moon, tarnished the stars, under his eye;

Behold even the moon doth not shine, and the stars are not pure in his sight.

quanto magis homo putredo, et filius hominis vermis?

and what is man but waste and worm in his presence?

How much less man that is rottenness and the son of man who is a worm?