Job 41-42

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.