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25 Then Bildad the Shuhite responded.

Bildad: God rules over all things;
        dread is His domain,
    God—who makes peace and order on His own heights.
    As for His armies, can they even be counted?
        As for His light, is anyone not illuminated?

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Chapter 25

Bildad’s Third Speech. [a]Then Bildad the Shuhite answered and said:

Dominion and dread are his
    who brings about harmony in his heavens.
Is there any numbering of his troops?[b]
    Yet on which of them does his light not rise?

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Footnotes

  1. 25:1 At this point any structure in the dialogues disappears. Bildad’s speech is very short, and there follow two speeches attributed to Job, with significantly different introductions in 27:1 and 29:1, and with no intervening third speech of Zophar.
  2. 25:3 His troops: the heavenly host, or army, the stars (cf. Jgs 5:20), later understood as angels.