Job 41:1–42:17
a “Can you draw out Leviathan with a fishhook?
Orb ⌊can you tie down its mouth with a cord⌋?c
2 Can you put a rope in its nose?
Ord can you pierce its jawbone with a hook?
3 Will it make numerous pleas for mercy to you?
Or will it speak gentle words to you?
4 Will it make a covenant with you?
Will you take it as a slave forever?
5 Will you play with it as with birds
and put it on a leash for your girls?
6 Will guildsmen bargain over it?
Will they divide it between tradesmen?
7 Can you fill its skin with harpoons
ore its head with fish spears?
think about the battle—you will not do it again!
9 “Look, ⌊the hope of capturing it⌋f is false.
Will one be hurled down even at its sight?
10 Is it not fierce when somebody stirs it?
Who then is he who would stand ⌊before it⌋?g
11 Who has come to confront me, thath I should repay him?
Under all the heavens, ⌊it belongs to me⌋.i
12 “I will not keep quiet concerning its limbs
orj concerning the extent of its might and the gracefulness of its frame.
13 Who can strip off ⌊its outer covering⌋?k
Who can penetrate its double harness?
14 Who can open the doors of its face?
Its teeth all around are fearsome.
15 Its backl has scales of shields;
it is shut up closely as with a seal.
16 They are close ⌊to one another⌋—m
evenn the air cannot come between them.
17 They are joined ⌊one to another⌋;o
they cling together and cannot be separated.
18 “Its snorting flashes forth light,
and its eyes are ⌊red like dawn⌋.p
sparks of fire shoot out.
20 Smoke comes from its nostrils
as from a kettle boiling and burning bulrushes.
21 Its breath kindles charcoal,
and a flame comes from its mouth.
22 “Strength abides in its neck,
and dismayq dances ⌊before it⌋.r
23 Its flesh’s folds of skin cling together;
it is cast on it—it will not be moved.
24 Its heart is cast as stone;
yes,s it is cast as the lower millstone.
25 ⌊When it raises itself⌋,t the mighty ones are terrified;
they retreat because of its thrashing.
26 Reaching it with the sword does not avail,
nor with the spear, the dart, oru the javelin.
bronze as rotten wood.
28 ⌊An arrow⌋v will not make it flee;
sling stones are turned to stubble for it.
29 Clubs are regarded as stubble,
and it laughs at the short sword’s rattle.
30 “Its underparts are shards of a potsherd;
it moves over mud like a threshing sledge.
31 It makes the deep boil like a cooking pot;
it makes the sea like a pot of ointment.
32 Behind it, ⌊it leaves a glistening wake⌋;w
one would think that the deep has gray hair.
33 “⌊On the ground it has no equal⌋x—
ay creature without fear.
it is king ⌊over all that are proud⌋.”z
Job’s Repentance and Restoration
42 Thena Job answered Yahweh and said,
2 “I know that you can do all things,
and any scheme from you will not be thwarted.
3 ‘Who is this darkening counsel without knowledge?’
Therefore I uttered, butb I did not understand;
⌊things too wonderful for me⌋,c but I did not know.
I will question you, thend inform me.’
5 By the ear’s hearing I heard of you,
bute now my eye has seen you.
and repent in dust and ashes.”
7 ⌊And then⌋f after Yahweh spoke these words to Job, Yahweh said to Eliphaz the Temanite, “⌊My wrath has been kindled⌋g against youh and against the two of your friends, for youi have not spoken to me what is right as my servant Job has. 8 ⌊So then⌋,j take for yourselves seven bulls and seven rams, and go to my servant Job and offer a burnt offering for yourselves. And my servant Job will pray for you,k for ⌊I will certainly accept his prayer⌋,l so that it will not be done with youm according to your folly, for youn have not spoken to me what is right as my servant Job has.”
9 Soo Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite went and did just as Yahweh had told them, and ⌊Yahweh accepted Job’s prayer⌋.p
10 Thenq Yahweh returned Job’s fortune when he prayed to him on behalf of his friends. Thusr Yahweh increased ⌊all that Job had twice as much as before⌋.s 11 Sot all his brothers and all his sisters and all those who had known him ⌊before⌋u came to him, and they ate breadv with him in his house and showed sympathy to him and comforted him for all the disasterw that Yahweh had brought upon him. Thenx each one gave to him one piece of money, and each one gave to him one ornamental ring of gold.
12 Soy Yahweh blessed Job’s latter days more than his beginning. ⌊Thus he had⌋z fourteen thousand sheep and goats and six thousand camels and a thousand pair of oxen and a thousand female donkeys. 13 ⌊And he had⌋a seven sons and three daughters. 14 And he called the name of the first Jemimah and the name of the second Keziah and the name of the third Qeren-Happuk. 15 And beautiful women were not found in all the land like Job’s daughters, and their father gave to them an inheritance in the midst of their brothers.
16 And Job lived after this one hundred and forty years, and he saw his sons and his ⌊grandsons⌋b for four generations. 17 Thenc Job died old and full of days.