Job 39:26–40:5

²⁶“Does the hawk soar by your wisdom?

Does it spread its wings to the south?

²⁷Or does the eagle fly high at your command

and construct its nest high?

²⁸It lives on the rock and spends the night

on the rock point and the mountain stronghold.^m

²⁹From there it spies out the prey;

its eyes look from far away.

³⁰And its young ones lick blood greedily,

and where the dead carcasses are, there they are.”

40Then^a Yahweh answered Job and said,

²“Shall a faultfinder contend with Shaddai?

Anyone who argues with God must answer it.”

Job Responds to Yahweh

³So Job answered Yahweh and said,

⁴“Look, I am insignificant.

What shall I answer you?

I lay my hand on my mouth.

⁵Once I have spoken, and I will not answer;

even^b twice, but^c I will not proceed.”