Study Desk

'Can mankind be righteous before God? Can a man be pure before his Maker?

Shall mortal man be more just than God? shall a man be more pure than his maker?

'He puts no trust even in His servants; And He accuses His angels of error.

Behold, he put no trust in his servants; and his angels he charged with folly:

'How much more those who live in houses of clay, Whose foundation is in the dust, Who are crushed before the moth!

How much less in them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, which are crushed before the moth?

'Between morning and evening they are broken in pieces; Unregarded, they perish forever.

They are destroyed from morning to evening: they perish for ever without any regarding it.

'Is their tent-cord not pulled out within them? They die, yet without wisdom.'

Doth not their excellency which is in them go away? they die, even without wisdom.