Job 40:2 "Will the faultfinder contend with the Almighty? Let him who reproves God answer it."

Job 40:3 Then Job answered the Lord and said,

Job 40:4 "Behold, I am insignificant; what can I reply to You? I lay my hand on my mouth.

Job 40:5 "Once I have spoken, and I will not answer; Even twice, and I will add nothing more."

Job 40:6 Then the Lord answered Job out of the storm and said,

Job 40:7 "Now gird up your loins like a man; I will ask you, and you instruct Me.

Job 40:8 "Will you really annul My judgment? Will you condemn Me that you may be justified?

Job 40:9 "Or do you have an arm like God, And can you thunder with a voice like His?

Job 40:10 "Adorn yourself with eminence and dignity, And clothe yourself with honor and majesty.

Job 40:11 "Pour out the overflowings of your anger, And look on everyone who is proud, and make him low.

Job 40:12 "Look on everyone who is proud, and humble him, And tread down the wicked where they stand.

Job 40:13 "Hide them in the dust together; Bind them in the hidden place.

Job 40:14 "Then I will also confess to you, That your own right hand can save you.

Job 40:15 "Behold now, Behemoth, which I made as well as you; He eats grass like an ox.

Job 40:16 "Behold now, his strength in his loins And his power in the muscles of his belly.

Job 40:17 "He bends his tail like a cedar; The sinews of his thighs are knit together.

Job 40:18 "His bones are tubes of bronze; His limbs are like bars of iron.

Job 40:19 "He is the first of the ways of God; Let his maker bring near his sword.

Job 40:20 "Surely the mountains bring him food, And all the beasts of the field play there.

Job 40:21 "Under the lotus plants he lies down, In the covert of the reeds and the marsh.

Job 40:22 "The lotus plants cover him with shade; The willows of the brook surround him.

Job 40:23 "If a river rages, he is not alarmed; He is confident, though the Jordan rushes to his mouth.

Job 40:24 "Can anyone capture him when he is on watch, With barbs can anyone pierce his nose?

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Job 41:1 "Can you draw out Leviathan with a fishhook? Or press down his tongue with a cord?

Job 41:2 "Can you put a rope in his nose Or pierce his jaw with a hook?

Job 41:3 "Will he make many supplications to you, Or will he speak to you soft words?

Job 41:4 "Will he make a covenant with you? Will you take him for a servant forever?

Job 41:5 "Will you play with him as with a bird, Or will you bind him for your maidens?

Job 41:6 "Will the traders bargain over him? Will they divide him among the merchants?

Job 41:7 "Can you fill his skin with harpoons, Or his head with fishing spears?

Job 41:8 "Lay your hand on him; Remember the battle; you will not do it again!

Job 41:9 "Behold, your expectation is false; Will you be laid low even at the sight of him?

Job 41:10 "No one is so fierce that he dares to arouse him; Who then is he that can stand before Me?

Job 41:11 "Who has given to Me that I should repay him? Whatever is under the whole heaven is Mine.

Job 41:12 "I will not keep silence concerning his limbs, Or his mighty strength, or his orderly frame.

Job 41:13 "Who can strip off his outer armor? Who can come within his double mail?

Job 41:14 "Who can open the doors of his face? Around his teeth there is terror.

Job 41:15 "His strong scales are his pride, Shut up as with a tight seal.

Job 41:16 "One is so near to another That no air can come between them.

Job 41:17 "They are joined one to another; They clasp each other and cannot be separated.

Job 41:18 "His sneezes flash forth light, And his eyes are like the eyelids of the morning.

Job 41:19 "Out of his mouth go burning torches; Sparks of fire leap forth.

Job 41:20 "Out of his nostrils smoke goes forth As from a boiling pot and burning rushes.

Job 41:21 "His breath kindles coals, And a flame goes forth from his mouth.

Job 41:22 "In his neck lodges strength, And dismay leaps before him.

Job 41:23 "The folds of his flesh are joined together, Firm on him and immovable.

Job 41:24 "His heart is as hard as a stone, Even as hard as a lower millstone.

Job 41:25 "When he raises himself up, the mighty fear; Because of the crashing they are bewildered.

Job 41:26 "The sword that reaches him cannot avail, Nor the spear, the dart or the javelin.

Job 41:27 "He regards iron as straw, Bronze as rotten wood.

Job 41:28 "The arrow cannot make him flee; Slingstones are turned into stubble for him.

Job 41:29 "Clubs are regarded as stubble; He laughs at the rattling of the javelin.

Job 41:30 "His underparts are like sharp potsherds; He spreads out like a threshing sledge on the mire.

Job 41:31 "He makes the depths boil like a pot; He makes the sea like a jar of ointment.

Job 41:32 "Behind him he makes a wake to shine; One would think the deep to be gray-haired.

Job 41:33 "Nothing on earth is like him, One made without fear.

Job 41:34 "He looks on everything that is high; He is king over all the sons of pride."

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Job 42:1 Then Job answered the Lord and said,

Job 42:2 "I know that You can do all things, And that no purpose of Yours can be thwarted.

Job 42:3 'Who is this that hides counsel without knowledge? 'Therefore I have declared that which I did not understand, Things too wonderful for me, which I did not know."

Job 42:4 'Hear, now, and I will speak; I will ask You, and You instruct me.'

Job 42:5 "I have heard of You by the hearing of the ear; But now my eye sees You;

Job 42:6 Therefore I retract, And I repent in dust and ashes."

Job 42:7 It came about after the Lord had spoken these words to Job, that the Lord said to Eliphaz the Temanite, "My wrath is kindled against you and against your two friends, because you have not spoken of Me what is right as My servant Job has.

Job 42:8 Now therefore, take for yourselves seven bulls and seven rams, and go to My servant Job, and offer up a burnt offering for yourselves, and My servant Job will pray for you. For I will accept him so that I may not do with you according to your folly, because you have not spoken of Me what is right, as My servant Job has."

Job 42:9 So Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite went and did as the Lord told them; and the Lord accepted Job.

Job 42:10 The Lord restored the fortunes of Job when he prayed for his friends, and the Lord increased all that Job had twofold.

Job 42:11 Then all his brothers and all his sisters and all who had known him before came to him, and they ate bread with him in his house; and they consoled him and comforted him for all the adversities that the Lord had brought on him. And each one gave him one piece of money, and each a ring of gold.

Job 42:12 The Lord blessed the latter days of Job more than his beginning; and he had 14,000 sheep and 6,000 camels and 1,000 yoke of oxen and 1,000 female donkeys.

Job 42:13 He had seven sons and three daughters.

Job 42:14 He named the first Jemimah, and the second Keziah, and the third Keren-happuch.

Job 42:15 In all the land no women were found so fair as Job's daughters; and their father gave them inheritance among their brothers.

Job 42:16 After this, Job lived 140 years, and saw his sons and his grandsons, four generations.

Job 42:17 And Job died, an old man and full of days.