Job 40

Job 40:1 Yahveh answered Job and said:

Job 40:2 Will the one who contends with the Almighty correct him? Let him who argues with God answer.

Job 40:3 Then Job answered Yahveh:

Job 40:4 I am so insignificant. How can I answer you? I place my hand over my mouth.

Job 40:5 I have spoken once, and I will not reply; twice, but now I can add nothing.

Job 40:6 Then Yahveh answered Job from the whirlwind:

Job 40:7 Get ready to answer me like a healthy man; When I question you, you will inform me.

Job 40:8 Would you really challenge my justice? Would you declare me guilty to justify yourself?

Job 40:9 Do you have an arm like God’s? Can you thunder with a voice like his?

Job 40:10 Adorn yourself with majesty and splendor and clothe yourself with honor and glory.

Job 40:11 Pour out your raging anger; look on every proud person and humiliate him.

Job 40:12 Look on every proud person and humble him; trample the wicked where they stand.

Job 40:13 Hide them together in the dust; imprison them in the grave.

Job 40:14 Then I will confess to you that your own right hand can deliver you.

Job 40:15 Look at Behemoth, which I made along with you. He eats grass like cattle.

Job 40:16 Look at the strength of his back and the power in the muscles of his belly.

Job 40:17 He stiffens his tail like a cedar tree; the tendons of his thighs are woven firmly together.

Job 40:18 His bones are bronze tubes; his limbs are like iron rods.

Job 40:19 He is the first of God’s works; only his Maker can draw the sword against him.

Job 40:20 The hills yield food for him, while all sorts of wild animals play there.

Job 40:21 He lies under the lotus plants, hiding in the protection of marshy reeds.

Job 40:22 Lotus plants cover him with their shade; the willows by the brook surround him.

Job 40:23 Though the river rages, Behemoth is unafraid; he remains confident, even if the Jordan surges up to his mouth.

Job 40:24 Can anyone capture him while he looks on, or pierce his nose with snares?

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Job 39 

Job 39:1 Do you know the time mountain goats give birth? Have you watched the deer in labor?

Job 39:2 Can you count the months they are pregnant so you can know the time they give birth?

Job 39:3 They crouch down to give birth to their young; they deliver their newborn.

Job 39:4 Their offspring are healthy and grow up in the open field. They leave and do not return.

Job 39:5 Who set the wild donkey free? Who released the swift donkey from its bonds?

Job 39:6 I made the desert its home, and the salty wasteland its dwelling.

Job 39:7 It avoids the noise of the village and never hears the shouts of a driver.

Job 39:8 It roams the mountains for its pastureland, searching for anything green.

Job 39:9 Would the wild ox be willing to work for you? Would it spend the night by your feeding trough?

Job 39:10 Can you hold the wild ox to a furrow by its harness? Will it plow the valleys behind you?

Job 39:11 Can you depend on it because its strength is great? Would you leave it to do your hard work?

Job 39:12 Can you trust the wild ox to harvest your grain and bring it to your threshing floor?

Job 39:13 The wings of the ostrich flap joyfully, but are her feathers and plumage like the stork’s?

Job 39:14 She abandons her eggs on the ground and lets them be warmed in the sand.

Job 39:15 She forgets that a foot may crush them or that some wild animal may trample them.

Job 39:16 She treats her young harshly, as if they were not her own, with no fear that her labor may have been in vain.

Job 39:17 You see, God has deprived her of wisdom; he has not endowed her with insight.

Job 39:18 When she proudly spreads her wings, she laughs at the horse and its rider.

Job 39:19 Do you give strength to the horse? Do you adorn his neck with a mane?

Job 39:20 Do you make him leap like a locust? His proud snorting fills one with terror.

Job 39:21 He paws in the valley and rejoices in his strength; he charges into battle.

Job 39:22 He laughs at fear since he is afraid of nothing; he does not run from the sword.

Job 39:23 A quiver rattles at his side, along with a flashing spear and a javelin.

Job 39:24 He chews up the ground with trembling rage; he cannot stand still at the trumpet’s sound.

Job 39:25 When the trumpet blasts, he snorts defiantly. He smells the battle from a distance; he hears the officers’ shouts and the battle cry.

Job 39:26 Does the hawk take flight by your insight and spread its wings to the south?

Job 39:27 Does the eagle soar at your command and make its nest high?

Job 39:28 It lives on a cliff where it spends the night; its stronghold is on a rocky crag.

Job 39:29 From there it searches for prey; its eyes penetrate the distance.

Job 39:30 Its brood gulps down blood, and where the slain are, it is there.

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Job 38

Job 38:1 Then Yahveh answered Job from the whirlwind. He said:

Job 38:2 Who is this who obscures my counsel with ignorant words?

Job 38:3 Get ready to answer me like a healthy man; when I question you, you will inform me.

Job 38:4 Where were you when I established the land? Tell me if you have insight.

Job 38:5 Who fixed its dimensions? Certainly, you know! Or, who stretched a measuring line across it?

Job 38:6 What supports its bases? Or who laid its cornerstone

Job 38:7 while the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?

Job 38:8 Who enclosed the sea behind doors when it burst from the womb,

Job 38:9 when I made the clouds its garment and total darkness its blanket,

Job 38:10 when I determined its boundaries and put its bars and doors in place,

Job 38:11 when I declared: “You may come this far, but no farther; your proud waves stop here?”

Job 38:12 Have you ever in your life commanded the morning or assigned the dawn its place,

Job 38:13 so it may seize the edges of the land and shake the wicked out of it?

Job 38:14 The land is changed as clay is by a seal; its hills stand out like the folds of a garment.

Job 38:15 Light is withheld from the wicked, and the arm raised in violence is broken.

Job 38:16 Have you traveled to the sources of the sea or walked in the depths of the oceans?

Job 38:17 Have the gates of death been revealed to you? Have you seen the gates of deep darkness?

Job 38:18 Have you comprehended the extent of the land? Tell me if you know all this.

Job 38:19 Where is the road to the home of light? Do you know where darkness lives,

Job 38:20 so you can lead it back to its border? Are you familiar with the paths to its home?

Job 38:21 Don’t you know? You were already born; you have lived so long!

Job 38:22 Have you entered the place where the snow is stored? Or have you seen the storehouses of hail,

Job 38:23 which I hold in reserve for times of trouble, for the day of warfare and battle?

Job 38:24 What road leads to the place where light is dispersed? Where is the source of the east wind that spreads across the ground?

Job 38:25 Who cuts a channel for the flooding rain or clears the way for lightning,

Job 38:26 to bring rain on an uninhabited ground, on a desert with no human life,

Job 38:27 to satisfy the parched wasteland and cause the grass to sprout?

Job 38:28 Does the rain have a father? Who fathered the drops of dew?

Job 38:29 Whose womb did the ice come from? Who gave birth to the frost of the sky

Job 38:30 when water becomes as hard as stone, and the surface of the watery depths is frozen?

Job 38:31 Can you fasten the chains of the Pleiades or loosen the belt of Orion?

Job 38:32 Can you bring out the constellations in their season and lead the Bear and her cubs?

Job 38:33 Do you know the laws of the sky? Can you impose its authority on the ground?

Job 38:34 Can you command the clouds so that a flood of water covers you?

Job 38:35 Can you send out lightning bolts, and they go? Do they report to you: “Here we are”?

Job 38:36 Who put wisdom in the heart or gave the mind insight?

Job 38:37 Who has the wisdom to number the clouds? Or who can tilt the water jars of the sky

Job 38:38 when the dust hardens like cast metal and the clods of dirt stick together?

Job 38:39 Can you hunt prey for a lioness or satisfy the appetite of young lions

Job 38:40 when they crouch in their dens and lie in wait within their lairs?

Job 38:41 Who provides the raven’s food when its young cry out to God and wander about for lack of food?

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Job 37

Job 37:1 Also, my heart pounds at this and leaps from my chest.

Job 37:2 listen to his thunderous voice and the rumbling that comes from his mouth.

Job 37:3 He lets it loose beneath the entire sky; his lightning to the ends of the ground.

Job 37:4 Then there comes a roaring sound; God thunders with his majestic voice. He does not restrain the lightning when his rumbling voice is heard.

Job 37:5 God thunders wondrously with his voice; he does great things that we cannot comprehend.

Job 37:6 Because he says to the snow, “Fall to the ground,” and the torrential rains, his mighty torrential rains,

Job 37:7 serve as his sign to all mankind, so that all men may know his work.

Job 37:8 The wild animals enter their lairs and stay in their dens.

Job 37:9 The windstorm comes from its chamber, and the cold from the driving north winds.

Job 37:10 Ice is formed by the breathing of God, and watery expanses are frozen.

Job 37:11 He saturates clouds with moisture; he scatters his lightning through them.

Job 37:12 They swirl about, turning round and round as he directs, accomplishing everything he commands them over the surface of the ground.

Job 37:13 He causes this to happen for punishment, for his land, or for his faithful love.

Job 37:14 Listen to this, Job. Stop and consider God’s wonders.

Job 37:15 Do you know how God directs his clouds or makes their lightning flash?

Job 37:16 Do you understand how the clouds float, those wonderful works of him who has perfect knowledge?

Job 37:17 You whose clothes get hot when the south wind brings calm to the ground,

Job 37:18 can you help God spread out the skies as firm as a cast metal mirror?

Job 37:19 Teach us what we should say to him; we cannot prepare our case because of our darkness.

Job 37:20 Should he be told that I want to speak? Can a man speak when he is confused?

Job 37:21 Now no one can even look at the sun when it is in the skies, after a wind has swept through and cleared the clouds away.

Job 37:22 Yet out of the north he comes, shrouded in a golden glow; awesome majesty surrounds him.

Job 37:23 The Almighty — we cannot reach him — he is exalted in power! He will not violate justice and abundant righteousness,

Job 37:24 therefore, men fear him. He does not regard any who are wise in heart.

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Job 36

Job 36:1 Then Elihu continued, and said: 

Job 36:2 Be patient with me a little longer, and I will inform you, for there is still more to be said on God’s behalf.

Job 36:3 I will get my knowledge from a distant place and ascribe fairness to my Maker.

Job 36:4 Indeed, my words are not false; one who has complete knowledge is with you.

Job 36:5 Yes, God is mighty, but he despises no one; he understands all things.

Job 36:6 He does not keep the wicked alive, but he gives justice to the oppressed.

Job 36:7 He does not withdraw his gaze from the righteous, but he seats them forever with enthroned kings, and they are exalted.

Job 36:8 If people are bound with chains and trapped by the cords of affliction,

Job 36:9 God tells them what they have done and how arrogantly they have transgressed.

Job 36:10 He opens their ears to correction and tells them to turn from iniquity.

Job 36:11 If they listen and serve him, they will end their days in prosperity and their years in happiness.

Job 36:12 But if they do not listen, they will cross the river of death and die without knowledge.

Job 36:13 Those who have a godless heart harbor anger; even when God binds them, they do not cry for help.

Job 36:14 They die in their youth; their life ends among male cult prostitutes.

Job 36:15 God rescues the afflicted by their affliction; he instructs them by their torment.

Job 36:16 Indeed, he lured you from the jaws of distress to a spacious and unconfined place. Your table was spread with choice food.

Job 36:17 Yet now you are obsessed with the judgment due the wicked; judgment and justice have seized you.

Job 36:18 Be careful that no one lures you with riches; do not let a hefty ransom lead you astray.

Job 36:19 Can your wealth or all your physical exertion keep you from distress?

Job 36:20 Do not long for the night when nations will disappear from their places.

Job 36:21 Be careful that you do not turn to iniquity, for that is why you have been tested by affliction.

Job 36:22 Look, God shows himself exalted by his power. Who is a teacher like him?

Job 36:23 Who has appointed his way for him, and who has declared, “You have done wrong”?

Job 36:24 Remember that you should praise his work, which people have sung about.

Job 36:25 All mankind has seen it; people have looked at it from a distance.

Job 36:26 Yes, God is exalted beyond our knowledge; the number of his years cannot be counted.

Job 36:27 For he makes waterdrops evaporate; they refine the rain into its mist,

Job 36:28 which the clouds pour out and shower abundantly on mankind.

Job 36:29 Can anyone understand how the clouds spread out or how the thunder roars from God’s pavilion?

Job 36:30 See how he spreads his lightning around him and covers the depths of the sea.

Job 36:31 For He judges the nations with these; he gives food in abundance.

Job 36:32 He covers his hands with lightning and commands it to hit its mark.

Job 36:33 The thunder declares his presence; the cattle also, the approaching storm.

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