15 January - Job 40-42

Jude Sat Aug 18, 2018 4:22 am

My soul doth magnify my YAH, and my spirit hath rejoiced in EL my Saviour; For HE that is mighty hath done to me great things; and Holy is HIS Name. Now unto HIM who is ever present in my helpless estate; who is able to keep me from falling and to present me faultless before the presence of His Glory with exceeding joy, unto the King Eternal, Immortal, Invisible, the only wise EL our Saviour be honour and glory and majesty, dominion and power both now and for ever Halleluyah!

JOB 40

1And יהוה answered Iyoḇ, and said,

2“Should a reprover contend with the Almighty? Let him who reproves Eloah answer it.”

3And Iyoḇ answered יהוה and said,

4“See, I am insignificant, what would I answer You? I lay my hand over my mouth.

5Once I have spoken, but I have no answer – and twice, but I say no more.”

6Then יהוה answered Iyoḇ out of the whirlwind, and said,

7“Now gird up your loins like a man; I ask you, and you answer Me.

8Would you also set aside My judgment? Would you pronounce Me wrong, and you be declared righteous?

9Or do you have an arm like Ěl? Or do you thunder with a voice like His?

10Deck yourself, please, with excellency and grandeur, and put on esteem and splendour.

11Scatter abroad the rage of your wrath, and look on everyone who is proud and bring him low.

12Look on everyone who is proud, humble him. And tread down the wrong-doers in their place.

13Hide them in the dust together, bind their faces in obscurity.

14Then even I would confess to you that your own right hand does save you.

15See now, Behĕmoth, which I made along with you – he eats grass like an ox.

16See now, his strength is in his loins, and his power is in his stomach muscles.

17He bends his tail like a cedar; the sinews of his thighs are knit together.

18His bones are like tubes of bronze, his ribs like bars of iron.

19He is the beginning of the ways of Ěl. His Maker brings near His sword.

20For the mountains yield food for him, and all the beasts of the field play there.

21He lies under the slender trees, under cover of reed and swamp.

22The slender trees cover him with their shade; the willows by the stream surround him.

23See, if a river rages, he is not alarmed; he feels safe, even if the Yardĕn gushes into his mouth,

24Before his eyes, shall he be caught, with snares? Or his nose pierced?

JOB 41

1“Would you draw out Liwiathan with a hook, or snare his tongue with a line which you lower?

2Would you put a cord through his nose, or pierce his jaw with a hook?

3Would he keep on pleading with you? Would he speak softly to you?

4Would he make a covenant with you to be taken as a servant forever?

5Would you play with him as with a bird? Or leash him for your young girls?

6Would trading partners bargain over him? Would they divide him among the merchants?

7Fill his skin with harpoons? Or his head with fishing spears?

8Put your hand on him – think of the struggle! Do not do it again!

9See, any expectation of him is disappointed – he is laid low even at the sight of him!

10No one is so foolhardy to wake him up. Who then is able to stand against Me?

11Who has given to Me first, that I should repay him – under all the heavens that is Mine?

12I would not keep silent concerning his limbs, or his mighty power, or his fair frame.

13Who shall take off the surface of his skin? Who approaches him with a double bridle?

14Who shall open the doors of his face, with his frightening teeth all around?

15Rows of scales are his pride – closed up, a binding seal.

16One to the other they fit closely, not even a breath enters between them.

17They are joined one to another, they stick together and are not separated.

18His sneezings flash forth light, and his eyes are like the eyelids of the morning.

19Out of his mouth go firebrands – sparks of fire shoot out.

20Out of his nostrils comes smoke, like a boiling pot or kettle.

21His breath sets coals on fire, and a flame goes out of his mouth.

22Strength dwells in his neck, and fear leaps before him.

23The folds of his flesh cleave together. They are firm on him, immovable.

24His heart is as hard as stone, even as hard as the lower millstone.

25When he raises himself up, the mighty are afraid. Because of his crashings they are bewildered.

26No sword that reaches him does prevail, neither spear, dart, or lance.

27He reckons iron as straw, bronze as rotten wood.

28The arrow does not make him flee, sling-stones become like stubble to him.

29Clubs are reckoned as straw, he laughs at the rattle of a lance.

30His undersides are like sharp potsherds. He sprawls on the mud like a threshing-sledge.

31He makes the deep boil like a pot, he makes the sea like a pot of ointment.

32He leaves a shining path behind him. One would think the deep to be grey-haired.

33No one on earth is like him – one made without fear.

34He sees all that is haughty. He is sovereign over all the sons of pride.”

JOB 42

1And Iyoḇ answered יהוה and said,

2“You know that You are able to do all, and that no purpose is withheld from You.

3Who is this that hides counsel without knowledge? Therefore I declared but I did not understand, matters too marvellous for me, which I did not know.

4Listen, please, and let me speak. I ask You, then would You make it known to me?’

5I have heard of You by the hearing of the ear, but now my eye sees You.

6Therefore I despise myself, and repent in dust and ashes.”

7And it came to be, after יהוה had spoken these words to Iyoḇ, that יהוה said to Eliphaz the Tĕmanite, “My wrath has burned against you and your two friends, for you have not spoken of Me what is right, as did My servant Iyoḇ.

8And now, take seven bulls and seven rams, and go to My servant Iyoḇ, and offer up a burnt offering for yourselves. And let My servant Iyoḇ pray for you – for I accept him – lest I punish you; because you have not spoken of Me what is right, as did My servant Iyoḇ.”

9So Eliphaz the Tĕmanite and Bildaḏ the Shuḥite, Tsophar the Na‛amathite went and did as יהוה commanded them. And יהוה accepted the face of Iyoḇ.

10And יהוה turned the captivity of Iyoḇ when he prayed for his friends. And יהוה gave Iyoḇ twice as much as he had before.

11And all his brothers, and all his sisters, and all those who had been his friends before, came to him and ate food with him in his house. And they sympathised with him and comforted him for all the evil that יהוה had brought upon him. And they each gave him a piece of silver and each one a ring of gold.

12And יהוה blessed the latter days of Iyoḇ more than his beginning; for he had fourteen thousand sheep, and six thousand camels, and one thousand yoke of oxen, and one thousand female donkeys.

13And he had seven sons and three daughters.

14And he called the name of the first Yemimah, and the name of the second Qetsi‛ah, and the name of the third Qeren-Happuḵ.

15And in all the land were found no women so pretty as the daughters of Iyoḇ. And their father gave them an inheritance among their brothers.

16And after this Iyoḇ lived one hundred and forty years, and saw his children and grandchildren for four generations.

17And Iyoḇ died, old and satisfied with days.