acv - Job:38-41

acv@Job:38:1 @ Then LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind, and said,

acv@Job:38:2 @ Who is this that darkens counsel by words without knowledge?

acv@Job:38:3 @ Gird up now thy loins like a man, for I will demand of thee, and declare thou to me.

acv@Job:38:4 @ Where were thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? Declare, if thou have understanding.

acv@Job:38:5 @ Who determined the measures of it, if thou know? Or who stretched the line upon it?

acv@Job:38:6 @ Upon what were the foundations of it fastened? Or who laid the corner-stone of it

acv@Job:38:7 @ when the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?

acv@Job:38:8 @ Or [who] shut up the sea with doors when it broke forth, [like] it had issued out of the womb,

acv@Job:38:9 @ when I made clouds the garment of it, and thick darkness a swaddling-band for it,

acv@Job:38:10 @ and marked out for it my bound, and set bars and doors,

acv@Job:38:11 @ and said, This far thou shall come, but no further, and here thy proud waves shall be stayed?

acv@Job:38:12 @ Have thou commanded the morning since thy days [began], [and] caused the dayspring to know its place

acv@Job:38:13 @ that it might take hold of the ends of the earth, and the wicked be shaken out of it?

acv@Job:38:14 @ It is changed as clay under the seal, and [all things] stand forth as a garment.

acv@Job:38:15 @ And from the wicked their light is withheld, and the high arm is broken.

acv@Job:38:16 @ Have thou entered into the springs of the sea? Or have thou walked in the recesses of the deep?

acv@Job:38:17 @ Have the gates of death been revealed to thee? Or have thou seen the gates of the shadow of death?

acv@Job:38:18 @ Have thou comprehended the earth in its breadth? Declare, if thou know it all.

acv@Job:38:19 @ Where is the way to the dwelling of light? And as for darkness, where is the place of it

acv@Job:38:20 @ that thou should take it to the bound of it, and that thou should discern the paths to the house of it?

acv@Job:38:21 @ Thou know, for thou were born then, and the number of thy days is great!

acv@Job:38:22 @ Have thou entered the treasuries of the snow, or have thou seen the treasures of the hail,

acv@Job:38:23 @ which I have reserved against the time of trouble, against the day of battle and war?

acv@Job:38:24 @ By what way is the light divided, or the east wind scattered upon the earth?

acv@Job:38:25 @ Who has cleft a channel for the water flood, or the way for the lightning of the thunder,

acv@Job:38:26 @ to cause it to rain on a land where no man is, on the wilderness, in which there is no man,

acv@Job:38:27 @ to satisfy the waste and desolate [ground], and to cause the tender grass to spring forth?

acv@Job:38:28 @ Has the rain a father? Or who has begotten the drops of dew?

acv@Job:38:29 @ Out of whose womb came the ice? And the hoary frost of heaven, who has engendered it?

acv@Job:38:30 @ The waters hide themselves [and become] like stone, and the face of the deep is frozen.

acv@Job:38:31 @ Can thou bind the cluster of the Pleiades, or loose the bands of Orion?

acv@Job:38:32 @ Can thou lead forth the Mazzaroth in their season? Or can thou guide the Bear with her train?

acv@Job:38:33 @ Do thou know the ordinances of the heavens? Can thou establish the dominion of it on the earth?

acv@Job:38:34 @ Can thou lift up thy voice to the clouds, that abundance of waters may cover thee?

acv@Job:38:35 @ Can thou send forth lightnings, that they may go, and say to thee, Here we are?

acv@Job:38:36 @ Who has put wisdom in the inward parts? Or who has given understanding to the mind?

acv@Job:38:37 @ Who can number the clouds by wisdom? Or who can pour out the bottles of heaven

acv@Job:38:38 @ when the dust runs into a mass, and the clods cleave fast together?

acv@Job:38:39 @ Can thou hunt the prey for the lioness, or satisfy the appetite of the young lions

acv@Job:38:40 @ when they couch in their dens, [and] abide in the covert to lie in wait?

acv@Job:38:41 @ Who provides for the raven his prey when his young ones cry to God, [and] wander for lack of food?

acv@Job:39:1 @ Do thou know the time when the wild goats of the rock bring forth? [Or] can thou mark when the hinds do calve?

acv@Job:39:2 @ Can thou number the months that they fulfill? Or do thou know the time when they bring forth?

acv@Job:39:3 @ They bow themselves. They bring forth their young. They cast out their pains.

acv@Job:39:4 @ Their young ones become strong. They grow up in the open field. They go forth, and return not again.

acv@Job:39:5 @ Who has sent out the wild donkey free? Or who has loosed the bonds of the swift donkey

acv@Job:39:6 @ whose home I have made the wilderness, and the salt land his dwelling-place?

acv@Job:39:7 @ He scorns the tumult of the city, neither does he hear the shoutings of the driver.

acv@Job:39:8 @ The range of the mountains is his pasture, and he searches after every green thing.

acv@Job:39:9 @ Will the wild-ox be content to serve thee? Or will he abide by thy crib?

acv@Job:39:10 @ Can thou bind the wild-ox with his band in the furrow? Or will he harrow the valleys after thee?

acv@Job:39:11 @ Will thou trust him because his strength is great? Or will thou leave to him thy labor?

acv@Job:39:12 @ Will thou confide in him that he will bring home thy seed, and gather [the grain] of thy threshing-floor?

acv@Job:39:13 @ The wings of the ostrich wave proudly, [but] are they the pinions and plumage of love?

acv@Job:39:14 @ For she leaves her eggs on the ground, and warms them in the dust.

acv@Job:39:15 @ And she forgets that the foot may crush them, or that the wild beast may trample them.

acv@Job:39:16 @ She deals hardly with her young ones, as if they were not hers. Though her labor be in vain, [she is] without fear,

acv@Job:39:17 @ because God has deprived her of wisdom, nor has he imparted understanding to her.

acv@Job:39:18 @ The time she lifts up herself on high she scorns the horse and his rider.

acv@Job:39:19 @ Have thou given the horse [his] might? Have thou clothed his neck with the quivering mane?

acv@Job:39:20 @ Have thou made him to leap as a locust? The glory of his snorting is awesome.

acv@Job:39:21 @ He paws in the valley, and rejoices in his strength. He goes out to meet the armed men.

acv@Job:39:22 @ He mocks at fear, and is not dismayed. Neither does he turn back from the sword.

acv@Job:39:23 @ The quiver rattles against him, the flashing spear and the javelin.

acv@Job:39:24 @ He swallows the ground with fierceness and rage, nor does he believe that it is the voice of the trumpet.

acv@Job:39:25 @ As often as the trumpet [sounds] he says, Aha! And he smells the battle afar off, the thunder of the captains, and the shouting.

acv@Job:39:26 @ Is it by thy wisdom that the hawk soars, (and) stretches her wings toward the south?

acv@Job:39:27 @ Is it at thy command that the eagle mounts up, and makes her nest on high?

acv@Job:39:28 @ She dwells on the cliff, and makes her home upon the point of the cliff and the stronghold.

acv@Job:39:29 @ From there she spies out the prey. Her eyes behold it afar off.

acv@Job:39:30 @ Her young ones also suck up blood. And where the slain are, there is she.

acv@Job:40:1 @ Moreover LORD answered Job, and said,

acv@Job:40:2 @ Shall he who quibbles contend with the Almighty? He who argues with God, let him answer it.

acv@Job:40:3 @ Then Job answered LORD, and said,

acv@Job:40:4 @ Behold, I am of small account. What shall I answer thee? I lay my hand upon my mouth.

acv@Job:40:5 @ I have spoken once, and I will not answer, yes, twice, but I will proceed no further.

acv@Job:40:6 @ Then LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind, and said,

acv@Job:40:7 @ Gird up thy loins now like a man. I will demand of thee, and declare thou to me.

acv@Job:40:8 @ Will thou even annul my judgment? Will thou condemn me, that thou may be justified?

acv@Job:40:9 @ Or have thou an arm like God? And can thou thunder with a voice like him?

acv@Job:40:10 @ Deck thyself now with excellency and dignity, and array thyself with honor and majesty.

acv@Job:40:11 @ Pour forth the overflowings of thine anger, and look upon everyone who is proud, and abase him.

acv@Job:40:12 @ Look on everyone who is proud, [and] bring him low, and tread down the wicked where they stand.

acv@Job:40:13 @ Hide them in the dust together. Bind their faces in the hidden [place].

acv@Job:40:14 @ Then I will also confess of thee that thine own right hand can save thee.

acv@Job:40:15 @ Behold now behemoth, which I made as well as thee. He eats grass as an ox.

acv@Job:40:16 @ Lo now, his strength is in his loins, and his force is in the muscles of his belly.

acv@Job:40:17 @ He moves his tail like a cedar. The sinews of his thighs are knit together.

acv@Job:40:18 @ His bones are [as] tubes of brass. His limbs are like bars of iron.

acv@Job:40:19 @ He is a beginning of the ways of God. He who made him gives him his sword.

acv@Job:40:20 @ Surely the mountains bring him forth food, where all the beasts of the field play.

acv@Job:40:21 @ He lays under the lotus trees, in the covert of the reed, and the fen.

acv@Job:40:22 @ The lotus trees cover him with their shade. The willows of the brook encompass him about.

acv@Job:40:23 @ Behold, if a river overflows, he does not tremble. He is confident though a Jordan swell even to his mouth.

acv@Job:40:24 @ Shall any take him when he is on the watch, or pierce through his nose with a snare?

acv@Job:41:1 @ Can thou draw out leviathan with a fishhook, or press down his tongue with a cord?

acv@Job:41:2 @ Can thou put a rope into his nose, or pierce his jaw through with a hook?

acv@Job:41:3 @ Will he make many supplications to thee? Or will he speak soft words to thee?

acv@Job:41:4 @ Will he make a covenant with thee, that thou should take him for a servant forever?

acv@Job:41:5 @ Will thou play with him as with a bird? Or will thou bind him for thy maidens?

acv@Job:41:6 @ Will the bands make traffic of him? Will they part him among the merchants?

acv@Job:41:7 @ Can thou fill his skin with barbed irons, or his head with fish-spears?

acv@Job:41:8 @ Lay thy hand upon him. Remember the battle, and do so no more.

acv@Job:41:9 @ Behold, the hope of him is in vain. Will not [a man] be cast down even at the sight of him?

acv@Job:41:10 @ None is so fierce that he dare stir him up. Who then is he who can stand before me?

acv@Job:41:11 @ Who has first given to me, that I should repay him? Under the whole heaven is mine.

acv@Job:41:12 @ I will not keep silence concerning his limbs, nor his mighty strength, nor his goodly frame.

acv@Job:41:13 @ Who can strip off his outer garment? Who shall come within his jaws?

acv@Job:41:14 @ Who can open the doors of his face? Round about his teeth is terror.

acv@Job:41:15 @ [His] strong scales are [his] pride, shut up together [like] a close seal.

acv@Job:41:16 @ One is so near to another that no air can come between them.

acv@Job:41:17 @ They are joined one to another. They stick together, so that they cannot be parted.

acv@Job:41:18 @ His sneezings flash forth light, and his eyes are like the eyelids of the morning.

acv@Job:41:19 @ Out of his mouth go burning torches, and sparks of fire leap forth.

acv@Job:41:20 @ Out of his nostrils a smoke goes, as of a boiling pot and [burning] rushes.

acv@Job:41:21 @ His breath kindles coals, and a flame goes forth from his mouth.

acv@Job:41:22 @ In his neck abides strength, and terror dances before him.

acv@Job:41:23 @ The flakes of his flesh are joined together. They are firm upon him. They cannot be moved.

acv@Job:41:24 @ His heart is as firm as a stone, Yea, firm as the nether millstone.

acv@Job:41:25 @ When he raises himself up the mighty are afraid. Because of consternation they are beside themselves.

acv@Job:41:26 @ If a man lays at him with the sword it cannot avail, nor the spear, the dart, nor the pointed shaft.

acv@Job:41:27 @ He counts iron as straw, [and] brass as rotten wood.

acv@Job:41:28 @ The arrow cannot make him flee. Sling-stones are turned into stubble with him.

acv@Job:41:29 @ Clubs are counted as stubble. He laughs at the rushing of the javelin.

acv@Job:41:30 @ His underparts are [like] sharp potsherds. He spreads out [as] a threshing-wagon upon the mire.

acv@Job:41:31 @ He makes the deep to boil like a pot. He makes the sea like a pot of ointment.

acv@Job:41:32 @ He makes a path to shine after him. [A man] would think the deep to be hoary.

acv@Job:41:33 @ Upon earth there is not his like who is made without fear.

acv@Job:41:34 @ He beholds everything that is high. He is king over all the sons of pride.

acv@Job:42:1 @ Then Job answered LORD, and said,