If even the moon is not bright and the stars are not pure in his sight,
“A mortal, born of woman, few of days and full of trouble,
God puts no trust even in his holy ones, and the heavens are not clean in his sight;
if I have looked at the sun when it shone or the moon moving in splendor,
Even in his servants he puts no trust, and his angels he charges with error;
“Indeed, I know that this is so, but how can a mortal be just before God?
with the pure you show yourself pure; and with the crooked you show yourself shrewd.
Then the moon will be abashed and the sun ashamed, for the Lord of hosts will reign on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem, and before his elders he will be glorified.
Indeed, what once had glory has in this respect lost its glory because of the greater glory,