Job 39:26–40:5

²⁶“Is it your wisdom that makes the hawk soar

and spread its wings toward the south?

²⁷Is it at your command that the eagle rises

to the heights to make its nest?

²⁸It lives on the cliffs,

making its home on a distant, rocky crag.

²⁹From there it hunts its prey,

keeping watch with piercing eyes.

³⁰Its young gulp down blood.

Where there’s a carcass, there you’ll find it.”

Chapter 40

Then the Lord said to Job,

²“Do you still want to argue with the Almighty?

You are God’s critic, but do you have the answers?”

Job Responds to the Lord

³Then Job replied to the Lord,

⁴“I am nothing—how could I ever find the answers?

I will cover my mouth with my hand.

⁵I have said too much already.

I have nothing more to say.”