Job 39-42

Job 39

¹Hast thou known the time of The bearing of the wild goats of the rock? The bringing forth of hinds thou dost mark!

²Thou dost number the months they fulfil? And thou hast known the time of their bringing forth!

³They bow down, Their young ones they bring forth safely, Their pangs they cast forth.

⁴Safe are their young ones, They grow up in the field, they have gone out, And have not returned to them.

⁵Who hath sent forth the wild ass free? Yea, the bands of the wild ass who opened?

⁶Whose house I have made the wilderness, And his dwellings the barren land,

⁷He doth laugh at the multitude of a city, The cries of an exactor he heareth not.

⁸The range of mountains is his pasture, And after every green thing he seeketh.

⁹Is a Reem willing to serve thee? Doth he lodge by thy crib?

¹⁰Dost thou bind a Reem in a furrow with his thick band? Doth he harrow valleys after thee?

¹¹Dost thou trust in him because great is his power? And dost thou leave unto him thy labour?

¹²Dost thou trust in him That he doth bring back thy seed? And to thy threshing-floor doth gather it?

¹³The wing of the rattling ones exulteth, Whether the pinion of the ostrich or hawk.

¹⁴For she leaveth on the earth her eggs, And on the dust she doth warm them,

¹⁵And she forgetteth that a foot may press it, And a beast of the field tread it down.

¹⁶Her young ones it hath hardened without her, In vain is her labour without fear.

¹⁷For God hath caused her to forget wisdom, And He hath not given a portion To her in understanding:

¹⁸At the time on high she lifteth herself up, She laugheth at the horse and at his rider.

¹⁹Dost thou give to the horse might? Dost thou clothe his neck with a mane?

²⁰Dost thou cause him to rush as a locust? The majesty of his snorting is terrible.

²¹They dig in a valley, and he rejoiceth in power, He goeth forth to meet the armour.

²²He laugheth at fear, and is not affrighted, And he turneth not back from the face of the sword.

²³Against him rattle doth quiver, The flame of a spear, and a halbert.

²⁴With trembling and rage he swalloweth the ground, And remaineth not stedfast Because of the sound of a trumpet.

²⁵Among the trumpets he saith, Aha, And from afar he doth smell battle, Roaring of princes and shouting.

²⁶By thine understanding flieth a hawk? Spreadeth he his wings to the south?

²⁷At thy command goeth an eagle up high? Or lifteth he up his nest?

²⁸A rock he doth inhabit, Yea, he lodgeth on the tooth of a rock, and fortress.

²⁹From thence he hath sought food, To a far off place his eyes look attentively,

³⁰And his brood gulph up blood, And where the pierced are -- there is he!

Job 40

¹And Jehovah doth answer Job, and saith: --

²Is the striver with the Mighty instructed? The reprover of God, let him answer it.

³And Job answereth Jehovah, and saith: --

⁴Lo, I have been vile, What do I return to Thee? My hand I have placed on my mouth.

⁵Once I have spoken, and I answer not, And twice, and I add not.

⁶And Jehovah answereth Job out of the whirlwind, and saith: --

⁷Gird, I pray thee, as a man, thy loins, I ask thee, and cause thou Me to know.

⁸Dost thou also make void My judgment? Dost thou condemn Me, That thou mayest be righteous?

⁹And an arm like God hast thou? And with a voice like Him dost thou thunder?

¹⁰Put on, I pray thee, excellency and loftiness, Yea, honour and beauty put on.

¹¹Scatter abroad the wrath of thine anger, And see every proud one, and make him low.

¹²See every proud one -- humble him, And tread down the wicked in their place.

¹³Hide them in the dust together, Their faces bind in secret.

¹⁴And even I -- I do praise thee, For thy right hand giveth salvation to thee.

¹⁵Lo, I pray thee, Behemoth, that I made with thee: Grass as an ox he eateth.

¹⁶Lo, I pray thee, his power is in his loins, And his strength in the muscles of his belly.

¹⁷He doth bend his tail as a cedar, The sinews of his thighs are wrapped together,

¹⁸His bones are tubes of brass, His bones are as a bar of iron.

¹⁹He is a beginning of the ways of God, His Maker bringeth nigh his sword;

²⁰For food do mountains bear for him, And all the beasts of the field play there.

²¹Under shades he lieth down, In a secret place of reed and mire.

²²Cover him do shades, with their shadow, Cover him do willows of the brook.

²³Lo, a flood oppresseth -- he doth not haste, He is confident though Jordan Doth come forth unto his mouth.

²⁴Before his eyes doth one take him, With snares doth one pierce the nose?

Job 41

¹Dost thou draw leviathan with an angle? And with a rope thou lettest down -- his tongue?

²Dost thou put a reed in his nose? And with a thorn pierce his jaw?

³Doth he multiply unto thee supplications? Doth he speak unto thee tender things?

⁴Doth he make a covenant with thee? Dost thou take him for a servant age-during?

⁵Dost thou play with him as a bird? And dost thou bind him for thy damsels?

⁶(Feast upon him do companions, They divide him among the merchants!)

⁷Dost thou fill with barbed irons his skin? And with fish-spears his head?

⁸Place on him thy hand, Remember the battle -- do not add!

⁹Lo, the hope of him is found a liar, Also at his appearance is not one cast down?

¹⁰None so fierce that he doth awake him, And who is he before Me stationeth himself?

¹¹Who hath brought before Me and I repay? Under the whole heavens it is mine.

¹²I do not keep silent concerning his parts, And the matter of might, And the grace of his arrangement.

¹³Who hath uncovered the face of his clothing? Within his double bridle who doth enter?

¹⁴The doors of his face who hath opened? Round about his teeth are terrible.

¹⁵A pride -- strong ones of shields, Shut up -- a close seal.

¹⁶One unto another they draw nigh, And air doth not enter between them.

¹⁷One unto another they adhere, They stick together and are not separated.

¹⁸His sneezings cause light to shine, And his eyes are as the eyelids of the dawn.

¹⁹Out of his mouth do flames go, sparks of fire escape.

²⁰Out of his nostrils goeth forth smoke, As a blown pot and reeds.

²¹His breath setteth coals on fire, And a flame from his mouth goeth forth.

²²In his neck lodge doth strength, And before him doth grief exult.

²³The flakes of his flesh have adhered -- Firm upon him -- it is not moved.

²⁴His heart is firm as a stone, Yea, firm as the lower piece.

²⁵From his rising are the mighty afraid, From breakings they keep themselves free.

²⁶The sword of his overtaker standeth not, Spear -- dart -- and lance.

²⁷He reckoneth iron as straw, brass as rotten wood.

²⁸The son of the bow doth not cause him to flee, Turned by him into stubble are stones of the sling.

²⁹As stubble have darts been reckoned, And he laugheth at the shaking of a javelin.

³⁰Under him are sharp points of clay, He spreadeth gold on the mire.

³¹He causeth to boil as a pot the deep, The sea he maketh as a pot of ointment.

³²After him he causeth a path to shine, One thinketh the deep to be hoary.

³³There is not on the earth his like, That is made without terror.

³⁴Every high thing he doth see, He is king over all sons of pride.

Job 42

¹And Job answereth Jehovah and saith: --

²Thou hast known that for all things Thou art able, And not withheld from Thee is any device:

³‘Who is this, hiding counsel without knowledge?' Therefore, I have declared, and understand not, Too wonderful for me, and I know not.

⁴‘Hear, I pray thee, and I -- I do speak, I ask thee, and cause thou me to know.'

⁵By the hearing of the ear I heard Thee, And now mine eye hath seen Thee.

⁶Therefore do I loathe it, And I have repented on dust and ashes.

⁷And it cometh to pass after Jehovah's speaking these words unto Job, that Jehovah saith unto Eliphaz the Temanite, ‘Burned hath Mine anger against thee, and against thy two friends, because ye have not spoken concerning Me rightly, like My servant Job.

⁸And now, take to you seven bullocks and seven rams, and go ye unto My servant Job, and ye have caused a burnt-offering to ascend for you; and Job My servant doth pray for you, for surely his face I accept, so as not to do with you folly, because ye have not spoken concerning Me rightly, like My servant Job.

⁹And they go -- Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, Zophar the Naamathite -- and do as Jehovah hath spoken unto them; and Jehovah doth accept the face of Job.

¹⁰And Jehovah hath turned to the captivity of Job in his praying for his friends, and Jehovah doth add to all that Job hath -- to double.

¹¹And come unto him do all his brethren, and all his sisters, and all his former acquaintances, and they eat bread with him in his house, and bemoan him, and comfort him concerning all the evil that Jehovah had brought upon him, and they gave to him each one kesitah, and each one ring of gold.

¹²And Jehovah hath blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning, and he hath fourteen thousand of a flock, and six thousand camels, and a thousand pairs of oxen, and a thousand she-asses.

¹³And he hath seven sons and three daughters;

¹⁴and he calleth the name of the one Jemima, and the name of the second Kezia, and the name of the third Keren-Happuch.

¹⁵And there have not been found women fair as the daughters of Job in all the land, and their father doth give to them an inheritance in the midst of their brethren.

¹⁶And Job liveth after this a hundred and forty years, and seeth his sons, and his sons' sons, four generations;

¹⁷and Job dieth, aged and satisfied with days.