Jun 10 - Job 40-42
Job
1The LORD said to Job:2"Will the one who contends with the Almighty correct him? Let him who accuses God answer him!"3Then Job answered the LORD:4"I am unworthy-how can I reply to you? I put my hand over my mouth.5I spoke once, but I have no answer- twice, but I will say no more."6Then the LORD spoke to Job out of the storm:7"Brace yourself like a man; I will question you, and you shall answer me.8"Would you discredit my justice? Would you condemn me to justify yourself?9Do you have an arm like God's, and can your voice thunder like his?10Then adorn yourself with glory and splendor, and clothe yourself in honor and majesty.11Unleash the fury of your wrath, look at every proud man and bring him low,12look at every proud man and humble him, crush the wicked where they stand.13Bury them all in the dust together; shroud their faces in the grave.14Then I myself will admit to you that your own right hand can save you.15"Look at the behemoth, which I made along with you and which feeds on grass like an ox.16What strength he has in his loins, what power in the muscles of his belly!17His tail sways like a cedar; the sinews of his thighs are close-knit.18His bones are tubes of bronze, his limbs like rods of iron.19He ranks first among the works of God, yet his Maker can approach him with his sword.20The hills bring him their produce, and all the wild animals play nearby.21Under the lotus plants he lies, hidden among the reeds in the marsh.22The lotuses conceal him in their shadow; the poplars by the stream surround him.23When the river rages, he is not alarmed; he is secure, though the Jordan should surge against his mouth.24Can anyone capture him by the eyes, or trap him and pierce his nose?
1"Can you pull in the leviathan with a fishhook or tie down his tongue with a rope?2Can you put a cord through his nose or pierce his jaw with a hook?3Will he keep begging you for mercy? Will he speak to you with gentle words?4Will he make an agreement with you for you to take him as your slave for life?5Can you make a pet of him like a bird or put him on a leash for your girls?6Will traders barter for him? Will they divide him up among the merchants?7Can you fill his hide with harpoons or his head with fishing spears?8If you lay a hand on him, you will remember the struggle and never do it again!9Any hope of subduing him is false; the mere sight of him is overpowering.10No one is fierce enough to rouse him. Who then is able to stand against me?11Who has a claim against me that I must pay? Everything under heaven belongs to me.12"I will not fail to speak of his limbs, his strength and his graceful form.13Who can strip off his outer coat? Who would approach him with a bridle?14Who dares open the doors of his mouth, ringed about with his fearsome teeth?15His back has rows of shields tightly sealed together;16each is so close to the next that no air can pass between.17They are joined fast to one another; they cling together and cannot be parted.18His snorting throws out flashes of light; his eyes are like the rays of dawn.19Firebrands stream from his mouth; sparks of fire shoot out.20Smoke pours from his nostrils as from a boiling pot over a fire of reeds.21His breath sets coals ablaze, and flames dart from his mouth.22Strength resides in his neck; dismay goes before him.23The folds of his flesh are tightly joined; they are firm and immovable.24His chest is hard as rock, hard as a lower millstone.25When he rises up, the mighty are terrified; they retreat before his thrashing.26The sword that reaches him has no effect, nor does the spear or the dart or the javelin.27Iron he treats like straw and bronze like rotten wood.28Arrows do not make him flee; slingstones are like chaff to him.29A club seems to him but a piece of straw; he laughs at the rattling of the lance.30His undersides are jagged potsherds, leaving a trail in the mud like a threshing sledge.31He makes the depths churn like a boiling caldron and stirs up the sea like a pot of ointment.32Behind him he leaves a glistening wake; one would think the deep had white hair.33Nothing on earth is his equal- a creature without fear.34He looks down on all that are haughty; he is king over all that are proud."
1Then Job replied to the LORD:2"I know that you can do all things; no plan of yours can be thwarted.3You asked, 'Who is this that obscures my counsel without knowledge?' Surely I spoke of things I did not understand, things too wonderful for me to know.4"You said, 'Listen now, and I will speak; I will question you, and you shall answer me.'5My ears had heard of you but now my eyes have seen you.6Therefore I despise myself and repent in dust and ashes."7After the LORD had said these things to Job, he said to Eliphaz the Temanite, "I am angry with you and your two friends, because you have not spoken of me what is right, as my servant Job has.8So now take seven bulls and seven rams and go to my servant Job and sacrifice a burnt offering for yourselves. My servant Job will pray for you, and I will accept his prayer and not deal with you according to your folly. You have not spoken of me what is right, as my servant Job has."9So Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite did what the LORD told them; and the LORD accepted Job's prayer.10After Job had prayed for his friends, the LORD made him prosperous again and gave him twice as much as he had before.11All his brothers and sisters and everyone who had known him before came and ate with him in his house. They comforted and consoled him over all the trouble the LORD had brought upon him, and each one gave him a piece of silver and a gold ring.12The LORD blessed the latter part of Job's life more than the first. He had fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, a thousand yoke of oxen and a thousand donkeys.13And he also had seven sons and three daughters.14The first daughter he named Jemimah, the second Keziah and the third Keren-Happuch.15Nowhere in all the land were there found women as beautiful as Job's daughters, and their father granted them an inheritance along with their brothers.16After this, Job lived a hundred and forty years; he saw his children and their children to the fourth generation.17And so he died, old and full of years.