Job 40: 6 - 42: 17
| 6Then the LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind, |
| 7“Now brace yourself like a man. |
| I will question you, and you will answer me. |
| 8Will you even annul my judgement? |
| Will you condemn me, that you may be justified? |
| 9Or do you have an arm like God? |
| Can you thunder with a voice like him? |
| 10“Now deck yourself with excellency and dignity. |
| Array yourself with honour and majesty. |
| 11Pour out the fury of your anger. |
| Look at everyone who is proud, and bring him low. |
| 12Look at everyone who is proud, and humble him. |
| Crush the wicked in their place. |
| 13Hide them in the dust together. |
| Bind their faces in the hidden place. |
| 14Then I will also admit to you |
| that your own right hand can save you. |
| 15“See now, behemoth, which I made as well as you. |
| He eats grass as an ox. |
| 16Look now, his strength is in his thighs. |
| His force is in the muscles of his belly. |
| 17He moves his tail like a cedar. |
| The sinews of his thighs are knit together. |
| 18His bones are like tubes of bronze. |
| His limbs are like bars of iron. |
| 19He is the chief of the ways of God. |
| He who made him gives him his sword. |
| 20Surely the mountains produce food for him, |
| where all the animals of the field play. |
| 21He lies under the lotus trees, |
| in the covert of the reed, and the marsh. |
| 22The lotuses cover him with their shade. |
| The willows of the brook surround him. |
| 23Behold, if a river overflows, he doesn’t tremble. |
| He is confident, though the Jordan swells even to his mouth. |
| 24Shall any take him when he is on the watch, |
| or pierce through his nose with a snare? |
| 1“Can you draw out Leviathan with a fish hook, |
| or press down his tongue with a cord? |
| 2Can you put a rope into his nose, |
| or pierce his jaw through with a hook? |
| 3Will he make many petitions to you, |
| or will he speak soft words to you? |
| 4Will he make a covenant with you, |
| that you should take him for a servant forever? |
| 5Will you play with him as with a bird? |
| Or will you bind him for your girls? |
| 6Will traders barter for him? |
| Will they part him amongst the merchants? |
| 7Can you fill his skin with barbed irons, |
| or his head with fish spears? |
| 8Lay your hand on him. |
| Remember the battle, and do so no more. |
| 9Behold, the hope of him is in vain. |
| Won’t one be cast down even at the sight of him? |
| 10None is so fierce that he dare stir him up. |
| Who then is he who can stand before me? |
| 11Who has first given to me, that I should repay him? |
| Everything under the heavens is mine. |
| 12“I will not keep silence concerning his limbs, |
| nor his mighty strength, nor his goodly frame. |
| 13Who can strip off his outer garment? |
| Who will come within his jaws? |
| 14Who can open the doors of his face? |
| Around his teeth is terror. |
| 15Strong scales are his pride, |
| shut up together with a close seal. |
| 16One is so near to another, |
| that no air can come between them. |
| 17They are joined to one another. |
| They stick together, so that they can’t be pulled apart. |
| 18His sneezing flashes out light. |
| His eyes are like the eyelids of the morning. |
| 19Out of his mouth go burning torches. |
| Sparks of fire leap out. |
| 20Out of his nostrils a smoke goes, |
| as of a boiling pot over a fire of reeds. |
| 21His breath kindles coals. |
| A flame goes out of his mouth. |
| 22There is strength in his neck. |
| Terror dances before him. |
| 23The flakes of his flesh are joined together. |
| They are firm on him. |
| They can’t be moved. |
| 24His heart is as firm as a stone, |
| yes, firm as the lower millstone. |
| 25When he raises himself up, the mighty are afraid. |
| They retreat before his thrashing. |
| 26If one attacks him with the sword, it can’t prevail; |
| nor the spear, the dart, nor the pointed shaft. |
| 27He counts iron as straw; |
| and bronze as rotten wood. |
| 28The arrow can’t make him flee. |
| Sling stones are like chaff to him. |
| 29Clubs are counted as stubble. |
| He laughs at the rushing of the javelin. |
| 30His undersides are like sharp potsherds, |
| leaving a trail in the mud like a threshing sledge. |
| 31He makes the deep to boil like a pot. |
| He makes the sea like a pot of ointment. |
| 32He makes a path shine after him. |
| One would think the deep had white hair. |
| 33On earth there is not his equal, |
| that is made without fear. |
| 34He sees everything that is high. |
| He is king over all the sons of pride.” |
| 1Then Job answered the LORD, |
| 2“I know that you can do all things, |
| and that no purpose of yours can be restrained. |
| 3You asked, ‘Who is this who hides counsel without knowledge?’ |
| therefore I have uttered that which I didn’t understand, |
| things too wonderful for me, which I didn’t know. |
| 4You said, ‘Listen, now, and I will speak; |
| I will question you, and you will answer me.’ |
| 5I had heard of you by the hearing of the ear, |
| but now my eye sees you. |
| 6Therefore I abhor myself, |
| and repent in dust and ashes.” |
| 7It was so, that after the LORD had spoken these words to Job, the LORD said to Eliphaz the Temanite, “My wrath is kindled against you, and against your two friends; for you have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job has. 8Now therefore, take to yourselves seven bulls and seven rams, and go to my servant Job, and offer up for yourselves a burnt offering; and my servant Job shall pray for you, for I will accept him, that I not deal with you according to your folly. For you have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job has.” |
| 9So Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite went, and did what the LORD commanded them, and the LORD accepted Job. |
| 10The LORD turned the captivity of Job, when he prayed for his friends. The LORD gave Job twice as much as he had before. 11Then all his brothers, all his sisters, and all those who had been of his acquaintance before, came to him and ate bread with him in his house. They comforted him, and consoled him concerning all the evil that the LORD had brought on him. Everyone also gave him a piece of money, and everyone a ring of gold. |
| 12So the LORD blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning. He had fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, one thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand female donkeys. 13He had also seven sons and three daughters. 14He called the name of the first, Jemimah; and the name of the second, Keziah; and the name of the third, Keren Happuch. 15In all the land were no women found so beautiful as the daughters of Job. Their father gave them an inheritance amongst their brothers. 16After this Job lived one hundred and forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons’ sons, to four generations. 17So Job died, being old and full of days. |
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