Category: Job

1 Can you pull in Leviathanwith a hook

or tie his tongue down with a rope?

2 Can you put a cordthrough his nose

or pierce his jaw with a hook?

3 Will he beg you for mercy

or speak softly to you?

4 Will he make a covenant with you

so that you can take him as a slave forever?

5 Can you play with him like a bird

or put him on a leashfor your girls?

6 Will traders bargain for him

or divide him among the merchants?

7 Can you fill his hide with harpoons

or his head with fishing spears?

8 Lay ahand on him.

You will remember the battle

and never repeat it!

9 Any hope of capturing him proves false.

Does a person not collapse at the very sight of him?

10 No one is ferocious enough to rouse Leviathan;

who then can stand against Me?

11 Who confronted Me, that I should repay him?

Everything under heaven belongs to Me.

12 I cannot be silent about his limbs,

his power, and his graceful proportions.

13 Who can strip off his outer covering?

Who can penetrate his double layer of armor?

14 Who can open his jaws,

surrounded by those terrifying teeth?

15 His pride is in his rows of scales,

closely sealed together.

16 One scale is so close to another

that no air can pass between them.

17 They are joined to one another,

so closely connectedthey cannot be separated.

18 His snortingflashes with light,

while his eyes are like the raysof dawn.

19 Flaming torches shoot from his mouth;

fiery sparks fly out!

20 Smoke billows from his nostrils

as from a boiling pot or burning reeds.

21 His breath sets coals ablaze,

and flames pour out of his mouth.

22 Strength resides in his neck,

and dismay dances before him.

23 The folds of his flesh are joined together,

solid as metaland immovable.

24 His heart is as hard as a rock,

as hard as a lower millstone!

25 When Leviathan rises, the mightyare terrified;

they withdraw because of his thrashing.

26 The sword that reaches him will have no effect,

nor will a spear, dart, or arrow.

27 He regards iron as straw,

and bronze as rotten wood.

28 No arrow can make him flee;

slingstones become like stubble to him.

29 A club is regarded as stubble,

and he laughsat the sound of a javelin.

30 His undersides are jagged potsherds,

spreading the mud like a threshing sledge.

31 He makes the depths seethe like a cauldron;

he makes the sea like an ointment jar.

32 He leaves a shining wake behind him;

one would think the deep had gray hair!

33 He has no equal on earth —

a creature devoid of fear!

34 He surveys everything that is haughty;

he is king over all the proud beasts.

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Job Replies to the Lord

1 Then Job replied to theLord:

2 Iknow that You can do anything

and no plan of Yours can be thwarted.

3 You asked, “Who is this who conceals My counsel with ignorance? ”

Surely I spoke about things I did not understand,

things too wonderful for me toknow.

4 You said, “Listen now, and I will speak.

When I questionyou, you will inform Me.”

5 I had heard rumors about You,

but now my eyeshave seen You.

6 Therefore I take back my words

and repent in dust and ashes.

7 After theLordhad finished speakingto Job, He said to Eliphaz the Temanite: “I am angry with you and your two friends, for you have not spoken the truth about Me, as My servant Job has.

8 Now take seven bulls and seven rams, go to My servant Job, and offer a burnt offering for yourselves. Then My servant Job will pray for you.I will surely accept his prayer and not deal with you as your folly deserves. For you have not spoken the truth about Me, as My servant Job has.”

9 Then Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite went and did as theLordhad told them, and theLordaccepted Job’s prayer.

God Restores Job

10 After Job had prayed for his friends, theLordrestored his prosperity and doubled his previous possessions.

11 All his brothers, sisters, and former acquaintancescame to his house and dined with him in his house. They sympathized with him and comforted him concerning all the adversity theLordhad brought on him. Each one gave him aqesitahand a gold earring.

12 So theLordblessed the last part of Job’s life more than the first. He owned 14,000 sheep, 6,000 camels, 1,000 yoke of oxen, and 1,000 female donkeys.

13 He also had seven sons and three daughters.

14 He named his first daughter Jemimah, his second Keziah, and his third Keren-happuch.

15 No women as beautiful as Job’s daughters could be found in all the land, and their father granted them an inheritance with their brothers.

16 Job lived 140 years after this and saw his children and their children to the fourth generation.

17 Then Job died, old and full of days.

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