Chapter XXV.
But responding, Baldad the Shuhite said: Power and fear are with Him, who makes harmony in His heights. Is there any number of His troops? Replying to the blessed Job, Baldad said that in the future, judgment will be more in the hands of God. He does not exercise judgment now, but keeps it reserved for the future. However, He does bring about a perpetual harmony of peace in His heights, that is, among His angels or His holy people, by guarding them so that they do not incur the enmities of celestial offense through any lapse of sin.
And over whom will his light not rise? For he illuminates every person who comes into this world.
Can a man be justified before God, or can a world be brought forth from a woman? It is clear that in their lack of an answer, they repeat more frequently what they have said before.
Behold, even the moon does not shine, and the stars are not clean in its sight. Under the name of the moon, or the stars, we can understand angels and heavenly powers, who, in comparison to divine reverence, can be seen as unclean and dark: it is certain that, although created creatures by nature do not sin, they are capable of sin; as was evident in other angels of the same nature who sinned. But it must be believed that no angel has sinned after them, because they turned all their free will towards the love of God alone; and so they became unmoving, persevering in the truth, in which the aforementioned angel did not wish to stand with his own kind. Therefore, the will of the angels has become unchangeable through the love of God, which is in them by nature. Therefore, they alone have incorruptible honor and glory. It can also be said of these elements that they are called impure because they do not always shine or because they only illuminate bodies and not minds, like God, who is accustomed to doing both.
How much more is man decay, and the son of man worm? For if angels, he says, and even the bodies of the heavens are considered unclean in comparison to God, what do you think, should man be considered, since he himself is decay: and the son of man a worm, born from the same corruption as the worm?