Iyov, starting at chapter 40
{40:1} Moreover the LORD answered Iyov,
{40:2} "Shall he who argues contend with [1>]Shaddai[<1]?
He who argues with God, let him answer it."
{40:3} Then Iyov answered the LORD,
{40:4} "Behold, I am of small account. What shall I answer you?
I lay my hand on my mouth.
{40:5} I have spoken once, and I will not answer;
Yes, twice, but I will proceed no further."
{40:6} Then the LORD answered Iyov out of the whirlwind,
{40:7} "Now brace yourself like a man.
I will question you, and you will answer me.
{40:8} Will you even annul my judgment?
Will you condemn me, that you may be justified?
{40:9} Or have you an arm like God?
Can you thunder with a voice like him?
{40:10} "Now deck yourself with excellency and dignity.
Array yourself with honor and majesty.
{40:11} Pour forth the fury of your anger.
Look on everyone who is proud, and bring him low.
{40:12} Look on everyone who is proud, and humble him.
Crush the wicked in their place.
{40:13} Hide them in the dust together.
Bind their faces in the hidden place.
{40:14} Then I will also admit to you
That your own right hand can save you.
{40:15} "See now, behemot, which I made as well as you.
He eats grass as an ox.
{40:16} Look now, his strength is in his loins,
His force is in the muscles of his belly.
{40:17} He moves his tail like a cedar:
The sinews of his thighs are knit together.
{40:18} His bones are like tubes of brass.
His limbs are like bars of iron.
{40:19} He is the chief of the ways of God.
He who made him gives him his sword.
{40:20} Surely the mountains bring him forth food,
Where all the animals of the field do play.
{40:21} He lies under the lotus trees,
In the covert of the reed, and the marsh.
{40:22} The lotuses cover him with their shade.
The willows of the brook surround him.
{40:23} Behold, if a river overflows, he doesn't tremble.
He is confident, though the Yarden swells even to his mouth.
{40:24} Shall any take him when he is on the watch,
Or pierce through his nose with a snare?
{41:1} "Can you draw out Livyatan with a fishhook?
Or press down his tongue with a cord?
{41:2} Can you put a rope into his nose?
Or pierce his jaw through with a hook?
{41:3} Will he make many petitions to you?
Or will he speak soft words to you?
{41:4} Will he make a covenant with you,
That you should take him for a servant forever?
{41:5} Will you play with him as with a bird?
Or will you bind him for your girls?
{41:6} Will traders barter for him?
Will they part him among the merchants?
{41:7} Can you fill his skin with barbed irons,
Or his head with fish-spears?
{41:8} Lay your hand on him.
Remember the battle, and do so no more.
{41:9} Behold, the hope of him is in vain.
Will not one be cast down even at the sight of him?
{41:10} None is so fierce that he dare stir him up.
Who then is he who can stand before me?
{41:11} Who has first given to me, that I should repay him?
Everything under the heavens is mine.
{41:12} "I will not keep silence concerning his limbs,
Nor his mighty strength, nor his goodly frame.
{41:13} Who can strip off his outer garment?
Who shall come within his jaws?
{41:14} Who can open the doors of his face?
Around his teeth is terror.
{41:15} Strong scales are his pride,
Shut up together with a close seal.
{41:16} One is so near to another,
That no air can come between them.
{41:17} They are joined one to another;
They stick together, so that they can't be pulled apart.
{41:18} His sneezing flashes forth light,
His eyes are like the eyelids of the morning.
{41:19} Out of his mouth go burning torches,
Sparks of fire leap forth.
{41:20} Out of his nostrils a smoke goes,
As of a boiling pot over a fire of reeds.
{41:21} His breath kindles coals.
A flame goes forth from his mouth.
{41:22} In his neck there is strength.
Terror dances before him.
{41:23} The flakes of his flesh are joined together.
They are firm on him. They can't be moved.
{41:24} His heart is as firm as a stone,
Yes, firm as the lower millstone.
{41:25} When he raises himself up, the mighty are afraid.
They retreat before his thrashing.
{41:26} If one lay at him with the sword, it can't avail;
Nor the spear, the dart, nor the pointed shaft.
{41:27} He counts iron as straw;
And brass as rotten wood.
{41:28} The arrow can't make him flee.
Sling stones are like chaff to him.
{41:29} Clubs are counted as stubble.
He laughs at the rushing of the javelin.
{41:30} His undersides are like sharp potsherds,
Leaving a trail in the mud like a threshing sledge.
{41:31} He makes the deep to boil like a pot.
He makes the sea like a pot of ointment.
{41:32} He makes a path to shine after him.
One would think the deep had white hair.
{41:33} On [1>]eretz[<1] there is not his equal,
That is made without fear.
{41:34} He sees everything that is high:
He is king over all the sons of pride."
{42:1} Then Iyov answered the LORD,
{42:2} "I know that you can do all things,
And that no purpose of yours can be restrained.
{42:3} You asked, 'Who is this who hides counsel without knowledge?'
Therefore I have uttered that which I did not understand,
Things too wonderful for me, which I didn't know.
{42:4} You said, 'Listen, now, and I will speak;
I will question you, and you will answer me.'
{42:5} I had heard of you by the hearing of the ear,
But now my eye sees you.
{42:6} Therefore I abhor myself,
And repent in dust and ashes."
{42:7} It was so, that after the LORD had spoken these words to
Iyov, the LORD said to Elifaz 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 Iyov has. {42:8} Now
therefore, take to yourselves seven bulls and seven rams, and go to my
servant Iyov, and offer up for yourselves a burnt offering; and my
servant Iyov 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 Iyov has."
{42:9} So Elifaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuchite and Tzofar the
Na`amatite went, and did what the LORD commanded them, and the LORD
accepted Iyov.
{42:10} The LORD turned the captivity of Iyov, when he prayed for
his friends. The LORD gave Iyov twice as much as he had before.
{42:11} Then came there to him all his brothers, and all his sisters,
and all those who had been of his acquaintance before, 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.
{42:12} So the LORD blessed the latter end of Iyov more than his
beginning. He had fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, one
thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand female donkeys. {42:13} He had
also seven sons and three daughters. {42:14} He called the name of the
first, Yemimah; and the name of the second, Ketzi`a; and the name of
the third, Keren-Happukh. {42:15} In all the land were no women found
so beautiful as the daughters of Iyov. Their father gave them an
inheritance among their brothers. {42:16} After this Iyov lived one
hundred forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons' sons, to four
generations. {42:17} So Iyov died, being old and full of days.
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Footnotes:
[1] {40:2} the Almighty
[1] {41:33} earth
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