Job 41:1–42:17
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Job 41:1–42:17 · Psalm 100 (MT: 101) · Proverbs 23:31–35 · 1 Corinthians 7:1–19
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Showing Job 41:1 through 42:17
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1Hast thou not seen him? and hast thou not wondered at the things said [of him]?
1Canst thou draw out leviathan with an hook? or his tongue with a cord which thou lettest down?
2Dost thou not fear because preparation has been made by me? for who is there that resists me?
2Canst thou put an hook into his nose? or bore his jaw through with a thorn?
3Or who will resist me, and abide, since the whole [world] under heaven is mine?
3Will he make many supplications unto thee? will he speak soft words unto thee?
4I will not be silent because of him: though because of his power [one] shall pity his antagonist.
4Will he make a covenant with thee? wilt thou take him for a servant for ever?
5Who will open the face of his garment? and who can enter within the fold of his breast-plate?
5Wilt thou play with him as with a bird? or wilt thou bind him for thy maidens?
6Who will open the doors of his face? terror is round about his teeth.
6Shall the companions make a banquet of him? shall they part him among the merchants?
7His inwards are [as] brazen plates, and the texture of his [skin] as a smyrite stone.
7Canst thou fill his skin with barbed irons? or his head with fish spears?
8One [part] cleaves fast to another, and the air cannot come between them.
8Lay thine hand upon him, remember the battle, do no more.
9They will remain united each to the other: they are closely joined, and cannot be separated.
9Behold, the hope of him is in vain: shall not one be cast down even at the sight of him?
10At his sneezing a light shines, and his eyes are [as] the appearance of the morning star.
10None is so fierce that dare stir him up: who then is able to stand before me?
11Out of his mouth proceed as it were burning lamps, and as it were hearths of fire are cast abroad.
11Who hath prevented me, that I should repay him? whatsoever is under the whole heaven is mine.
12Out of his nostrils proceeds smoke of a furnace burning with fire of coals.
12I will not conceal his parts, nor his power, nor his comely proportion.
13His breath is [as] live coals, and a flame goes out of his mouth.
13Who can discover the face of his garment? or who can come to him with his double bridle?
14And power is lodged in his neck, before him destruction runs.
14Who can open the doors of his face? his teeth are terrible round about.
15The flesh also of his body is joined together: [if one] pours [violence] upon him, he shall not be moved.
15His scales are his pride, shut up together as with a close seal.
16His heart is firm as a stone, and it stands like an unyielding anvil.
16One is so near to another, that no air can come between them.
17And when he turns, [he is] a terror to the four-footed wild beasts which leap upon the earth.
17They are joined one to another, they stick together, that they cannot be sundered.
18If spears should come against him, [men] will effect nothing, [either with] the spear or the breast-plate.
18By his neesings a light doth shine, and his eyes are like the eyelids of the morning.
19For he considers iron as chaff, and brass as rotten wood.
19Out of his mouth go burning lamps, and sparks of fire leap out.
20The bow of brass shall not wound him, he deems a slinger as grass.
20Out of his nostrils goeth smoke, as out of a seething pot or caldron.
21Mauls are counted as stubble; and he laughs to scorn the waving of the firebrand.
21His breath kindleth coals, and a flame goeth out of his mouth.
22His lair is [formed of] sharp points; and all the gold of the sea under him is as an immense [quantity of] clay.
22In his neck remaineth strength, and sorrow is turned into joy before him.
23He makes the deep boil like a brazen caldron; and he regards the sea as a pot of ointment,
23The flakes of his flesh are joined together: they are firm in themselves; they cannot be moved.
24and the lowest part of the deep as a captive: he reckons the deep as [his] range.
24His heart is as firm as a stone; yea, as hard as a piece of the nether millstone.
25There is nothing upon the earth like to him, formed to be sported with by my angels.
25When he raiseth up himself, the mighty are afraid: by reason of breakings they purify themselves.
26He beholds every high thing: and he is king of all that are in the waters.
26The sword of him that layeth at him cannot hold: the spear, the dart, nor the habergeon.
1Then Job answered and said to the Lord,
1Then Job answered the Lord, and said,
2I know that thou canst do all things, and nothing is impossible with thee.
2I know that thou canst do every thing, and that no thought can be withholden from thee.
3For who is he that hides counsel from thee? or who keeps back his words, and thinks to hide them from thee? and who will tell me what I knew not, great and wonderful things which I understood not?
3Who is he that hideth counsel without knowledge? therefore have I uttered that I understood not; things too wonderful for me, which I knew not.
4But hear me, O Lord, that I also may speak: and I will ask thee, and do thou teach me.
4Hear, I beseech thee, and I will speak: I will demand of thee, and declare thou unto me.
5I have heard the report of thee by the ear before; but now mine eye has seen thee.
5I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear: but now mine eye seeth thee.
6Wherefore I have counted myself vile, and have fainted: and I esteem myself dust and ashes.
6Wherefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.
7And it came to pass after the Lord had spoken all these words to Job, [that] the Lord said to Eliphaz the Thæmanite, Thou hast sinned, and thy two friends: for ye have not said anything true before me , as my servant Job [has].
7And it was so, that after the Lord had spoken these words unto Job, the Lord said to Eliphaz the Temanite, My wrath is kindled against thee, and against thy two friends: for ye have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job hath.
8Now then take seven bullocks, and seven rams, and go to my servant Job, and he shall offer a burnt -offering for you. And my servant Job shall pray for you, for I will only accept him: for but for his sake, I would have destroyed you , for ye have not spoken the truth against my servant Job.
8Therefore take unto you now seven bullocks and seven rams, and go to my servant Job, and offer up for yourselves a burnt offering; and my servant Job shall pray for you: for him will I accept: lest I deal with you after your folly, in that ye have not spoken of me the thing which is right, like my servant Job.
9So Eliphaz the Thæmanite, and Baldad the Sauchite, and Sophar the Minæan, wentand did as the Lord commanded them: and he pardoned their sin for the sake of Job.
9So Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite went, and did according as the Lord commanded them: the Lord also accepted Job.
10And the Lord prospered Job: and when he prayed also for his friends, he forgave them [their] sin: and the Lord gave Job twice as much, even the double of what he had before.
10And the Lord turned the captivity of Job, when he prayed for his friends: also the Lord gave Job twice as much as he had before.
11And all his brethrenand his sisters heard all that had happened to him, and they came to him, and [so did] all that had known him from the first: and they ate and drank with him, and comforted him, and wondered at all that the Lord had brought upon him: and each one gave him a lamb, and four drachms' weight of gold, even of unstamped [gold].
11Then came there unto him all his brethren, and all his sisters, and all they that had been of his acquaintance before, and did eat bread with him in his house: and they bemoaned him, and comforted him over all the evil that the Lord had brought upon him: every man also gave him a piece of money, and every one an earring of gold.
12And the Lord blessed the latter end of Job , [more] than the beginning: and his cattle were fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, a thousand yoke of oxen, a thousand she -asses of the pastures.
12So the Lord blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning: for he had fourteen thousand sheep, and six thousand camels, and a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand she asses.
13And there were born to him seven sons and three daughters.
13He had also seven sons and three daughters.
14And he called the first, Day, and the second, Casia, and the third, Amalthæa's horn.
14And he called the name of the first, Jemima; and the name of the second, Kezia; and the name of the third, Keren–happuch.
15And there were not found in comparison with the daughters of Job, fairer [women] than they in all the world: and their father gave them an inheritance among their brethren.
15And in all the land were no women found so fair as the daughters of Job: and their father gave them inheritance among their brethren.
16And Job lived after [his] affliction a hundred and seventy years: and all the years he lived were two hundred and forty: and Job saw his sonsand his sons' sons, the fourth generation.
16After this lived Job an hundred and forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons’ sons, even four generations.
17And Job died, an old man and full of days: and it is written that he will rise again with those whom the Lord raises up. This man is described in the Syriac book [as] living in the land of Ausis, on the borders of Idumea and Arabia: and his name before was Jobab; and having taken an Arabian wife, he begot a son whose name was Ennon. And he himself was the son of his father Zare, one of the sons of Esau, and of his mother Bosorrha, so that he was the fifth from Abraam. And these were the kings who reigned in Edom, which country he also ruled over: first, Balac, the son of Beor, and the name of his city was Dennaba: but after Balac, Jobab, who is called Job: and after him Asom, who was governor out of the country of Thæman: and after him Adad, the son of Barad, who destroyed Madiam in the plain of Moab; and the name of his city was Gethaim. And [his] friends who came to him were Eliphaz, of the children of Esau, king of the Thæmanites, Baldad sovereign of the Sauchæans, Sophar king of the Minæans.
17So Job died, being old and full of days.