web - Job:38-41

web@Job:38:1 @Then Yahweh answered Job out of the whirlwind,

web@Job:38:2 @"Who is this who darkens counsel by words without knowledge?

web@Job:38:3 @Brace yourself like a man, for I will question you, then you answer me!

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

web@Job:38:5 @Who determined its measures, if you know? Or who stretched the line on it?

web@Job:38:6 @Whereupon were its foundations fastened? Or who laid its cornerstone,

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

web@Job:38:8 @"Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it broke forth from the womb,

web@Job:38:9 @when I made clouds its garment, and wrapped it in thick darkness,

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

web@Job:38:11 @and said, 'Here you may come, but no further. Here your proud waves shall be stayed?'

web@Job:38:12 @"Have you commanded the morning in your days, and caused the dawn to know its place;

web@Job:38:13 @that it might take hold of the ends of the earth, and shake the wicked out of it?

web@Job:38:14 @It is changed as clay under the seal, and stands forth as a garment.

web@Job:38:15 @From the wicked, their light is withheld. The high arm is broken.

web@Job:38:16 @"Have you entered into the springs of the sea? Or have you walked in the recesses of the deep?

web@Job:38:17 @Have the gates of death been revealed to you? Or have you seen the gates of the shadow of death?

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

web@Job:38:19 @"What is the way to the dwelling of light? As for darkness, where is its place,

web@Job:38:20 @that you should take it to its bound, that you should discern the paths to its house?

web@Job:38:21 @Surely you know, for you were born then, and the number of your days is great!

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

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

web@Job:38:24 @By what way is the lightning distributed, or the east wind scattered on the earth?

web@Job:38:25 @Who has cut a channel for the flood water, or the path for the thunderstorm;

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

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

web@Job:38:28 @Does the rain have a father? Or who fathers the drops of dew?

web@Job:38:29 @Out of whose womb came the ice? The gray frost of the sky, who has given birth to it?

web@Job:38:30 @The waters become hard like stone, when the surface of the deep is frozen.

web@Job:38:31 @"Can you bind the cluster of the Pleiades, or loosen the cords of Orion?

web@Job:38:32 @Can you lead forth the constellations in their season? Or can you guide the Bear with her cubs?

web@Job:38:33 @Do you know the laws of the heavens? Can you establish its dominion over the earth?

web@Job:38:34 @"Can you lift up your voice to the clouds, That abundance of waters may cover you?

web@Job:38:35 @Can you send forth lightnings, that they may go? Do they report to you, 'Here we are?'

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

web@Job:38:37 @Who can number the clouds by wisdom? Or who can pour out the bottles of the sky,

web@Job:38:38 @when the dust runs into a mass, and the clods of earth stick together?

web@Job:38:39 @"Can you hunt the prey for the lioness, or satisfy the appetite of the young lions,

web@Job:38:40 @when they crouch in their dens, and lie in wait in the thicket?

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

web@Job:39:1 @"Do you know the time when the mountain goats give birth? Do you watch when the doe bears fawns?

web@Job:39:2 @Can you number the months that they fulfill? Or do you know the time when they give birth?

web@Job:39:3 @They bow themselves, they bring forth their young, they end their labor pains.

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

web@Job:39:5 @"Who has set the wild donkey free? Or who has loosened the bonds of the swift donkey,

web@Job:39:6 @Whose home I have made the wilderness, and the salt land his dwelling place?

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

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

web@Job:39:9 @"Will the wild ox be content to serve you? Or will he stay by your feeding trough?

web@Job:39:10 @Can you hold the wild ox in the furrow with his harness? Or will he till the valleys after you?

web@Job:39:11 @Will you trust him, because his strength is great? Or will you leave to him your labor?

web@Job:39:12 @Will you confide in him, that he will bring home your seed, and gather the grain of your threshing floor?

web@Job:39:13 @"The wings of the ostrich wave proudly; but are they the feathers and plumage of love?

web@Job:39:14 @For she leaves her eggs on the earth, warms them in the dust,

web@Job:39:15 @and forgets that the foot may crush them, or that the wild animal may trample them.

web@Job:39:16 @She deals harshly with her young ones, as if they were not hers. Though her labor is in vain, she is without fear,

web@Job:39:17 @because God has deprived her of wisdom, neither has he imparted to her understanding.

web@Job:39:18 @When she lifts up herself on high, she scorns the horse and his rider.

web@Job:39:19 @"Have you given the horse might? Have you clothed his neck with a quivering mane?

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

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

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

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

web@Job:39:24 @He eats up the ground with fierceness and rage, neither does he stand still at the sound of the trumpet.

web@Job:39:25 @As often as the trumpet sounds he snorts, 'Aha!' He smells the battle afar off, the thunder of the captains, and the shouting.

web@Job:39:26 @"Is it by your wisdom that the hawk soars, and stretches her wings toward the south?

web@Job:39:27 @Is it at your command that the eagle mounts up, and makes his nest on high?

web@Job:39:28 @On the cliff he dwells, and makes his home, on the point of the cliff, and the stronghold.

web@Job:39:29 @From there he spies out the prey. His eyes see it afar off.

web@Job:39:30 @His young ones also suck up blood. Where the slain are, there he is."

web@Job:40:1 @Moreover Yahweh answered Job,

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

web@Job:40:3 @Then Job answered Yahweh,

web@Job:40:4 @"Behold, I am of small account. What shall I answer you? I lay my hand on my mouth.

web@Job:40:5 @I have spoken once, and I will not answer; Yes, twice, but I will proceed no further."

web@Job:40:6 @Then Yahweh answered Job out of the whirlwind,

web@Job:40:7 @"Now brace yourself like a man. I will question you, and you will answer me.

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

web@Job:40:9 @Or do you have an arm like God? Can you thunder with a voice like him?

web@Job:40:10 @"Now deck yourself with excellency and dignity. Array yourself with honor and majesty.

web@Job:40:11 @Pour out the fury of your anger. Look at everyone who is proud, and bring him low.

web@Job:40:12 @Look at everyone who is proud, and humble him. Crush the wicked in their place.

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

web@Job:40:14 @Then I will also admit to you that your own right hand can save you.

web@Job:40:15 @"See now, behemoth, which I made as well as you. He eats grass as an ox.

web@Job:40:16 @Look now, his strength is in his thighs. His force is in the muscles of his belly.

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

web@Job:40:18 @His bones are like tubes of brass. His limbs are like bars of iron.

web@Job:40:19 @He is the chief of the ways of God. He who made him gives him his sword.

web@Job:40:20 @Surely the mountains produce food for him, where all the animals of the field play.

web@Job:40:21 @He lies under the lotus trees, in the covert of the reed, and the marsh.

web@Job:40:22 @The lotuses cover him with their shade. The willows of the brook surround him.

web@Job:40:23 @Behold, if a river overflows, he doesn't tremble. He is confident, though the Jordan swells even to his mouth.

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

web@Job:41:1 @"Can you draw out Leviathan {Leviathan is a name for a crocodile or similar creature.} with a fishhook, or press down his tongue with a cord?

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

web@Job:41:3 @Will he make many petitions to you, or will he speak soft words to you?

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

web@Job:41:5 @Will you play with him as with a bird? Or will you bind him for your girls?

web@Job:41:6 @Will traders barter for him? Will they part him among the merchants?

web@Job:41:7 @Can you fill his skin with barbed irons, or his head with fish spears?

web@Job:41:8 @Lay your hand on him. Remember the battle, and do so no more.

web@Job:41:9 @Behold, the hope of him is in vain. Won't one be cast down even at the sight of him?

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

web@Job:41:11 @Who has first given to me, that I should repay him? Everything under the heavens is mine.

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

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

web@Job:41:14 @Who can open the doors of his face? Around his teeth is terror.

web@Job:41:15 @Strong scales are his pride, shut up together with a close seal.

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

web@Job:41:17 @They are joined one to another. They stick together, so that they can't be pulled apart.

web@Job:41:18 @His sneezing flashes out light. His eyes are like the eyelids of the morning.

web@Job:41:19 @Out of his mouth go burning torches. Sparks of fire leap forth.

web@Job:41:20 @Out of his nostrils a smoke goes, as of a boiling pot over a fire of reeds.

web@Job:41:21 @His breath kindles coals. A flame goes forth from his mouth.

web@Job:41:22 @There is strength in his neck. Terror dances before him.

web@Job:41:23 @The flakes of his flesh are joined together. They are firm on him. They can't be moved.

web@Job:41:24 @His heart is as firm as a stone, yes, firm as the lower millstone.

web@Job:41:25 @When he raises himself up, the mighty are afraid. They retreat before his thrashing.

web@Job:41:26 @If one attacks him with the sword, it can't prevail; nor the spear, the dart, nor the pointed shaft.

web@Job:41:27 @He counts iron as straw; and brass as rotten wood.

web@Job:41:28 @The arrow can't make him flee. Sling stones are like chaff to him.

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

web@Job:41:30 @His undersides are like sharp potsherds, leaving a trail in the mud like a threshing sledge.

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

web@Job:41:32 @He makes a path shine after him. One would think the deep had white hair.

web@Job:41:33 @On earth there is not his equal, that is made without fear.

web@Job:41:34 @He sees everything that is high. He is king over all the sons of pride."

web@Job:42:1 @Then Job answered Yahweh,