Job:40-42

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* Moreover the LORD answered Job , and said , * Shall he that contendeth with the Almighty instruct him ? he that reproveth God , let him answer it . * Then Job answered the LORD , and said , * Behold , I am vile ; what shall I answer thee ? I will lay mine hand upon my mouth . * Once have I spoken ; but I will not answer : yea , twice ; but I will proceed no further . * Then answered the LORD unto Job out of the whirlwind , and said , * Gird up thy loins now like a man : I will demand of thee , and declare thou unto me . * Wilt thou also disannul my judgment ? wilt thou condemn me , that thou mayest be righteous ? * Hast thou an arm like God ? or canst thou thunder with a voice like him ? * Deck thyself now with majesty and excellency ; and array thyself with glory and beauty . * Cast abroad the rage of thy wrath : and behold every one that is proud , and abase him . * Look on every one that is proud , and bring him low ; and tread down the wicked in their place . * Hide them in the dust together ; and bind their faces in secret . * Then will I also confess unto thee that thine own right hand can save thee . * Behold now behemoth , which I made with thee ; he eateth grass as an ox . * Lo now , his strength is in his loins , and his force is in the navel of his belly . * He moveth his tail like a cedar : the sinews of his stones are wrapped together . * His bones are as strong pieces of brass ; his bones are like bars of iron . * He is the chief of the ways of God : he that made him can make his sword to approach unto him . * Surely the mountains bring him forth food , where all the beasts of the field play . * He lieth under the shady trees , in the covert of the reed , and fens . * The shady trees cover him with their shadow ; the willows of the brook compass him about . * Behold , he drinketh up a river , and hasteth not : he trusteth that he can draw up Jordan into his mouth . * He taketh it with his eyes : his nose pierceth through snares . * Canst thou draw out leviathan with an hook ? or his tongue with a cord which thou lettest down ? * Canst thou put an hook into his nose ? or bore his jaw through with a thorn ? * Will he make many supplications unto thee ? will he speak soft words unto thee ? * Will he make a covenant with thee ? wilt thou take him for a servant for ever ? * Wilt thou play with him as with a bird ? or wilt thou bind him for thy maidens ? * Shall the companions make a banquet of him ? shall they part him among the merchants ? * Canst thou fill his skin with barbed irons ? or his head with fish spears ? * Lay thine hand upon him , remember the battle , do no more . * Behold , the hope of him is in vain : shall not one be cast down even at the sight of him ? * None is so fierce that dare stir him up : who then is able to stand before me ? * Who hath prevented me , that I should repay him ? whatsoever is under the whole heaven is mine . * I will not conceal his parts , nor his power , nor his comely proportion . * Who can discover the face of his garment ? or who can come to him with his double bridle ? * Who can open the doors of his face ? his teeth are terrible round about . * His scales are his pride , shut up together as with a close seal . * One is so near to another , that no air can come between them . * They are joined one to another , they stick together , that they cannot be sundered . * By his neesings a light doth shine , and his eyes are like the eyelids of the morning . * Out of his mouth go burning lamps , and sparks of fire leap out . * Out of his nostrils goeth smoke , as out of a seething pot or caldron . * His breath kindleth coals , and a flame goeth out of his mouth . * In his neck remaineth strength , and sorrow is turned into joy before him . * The flakes of his flesh are joined together : they are firm in themselves ; they cannot be moved . * His heart is as firm as a stone ; yea , as hard as a piece of the nether millstone . * When he raiseth up himself , the mighty are afraid : by reason of breakings they purify themselves . * The sword of him that layeth at him cannot hold : the spear , the dart , nor the habergeon . * He esteemeth iron as straw , and brass as rotten wood . * The arrow cannot make him flee : slingstones are turned with him into stubble . * Darts are counted as stubble : he laugheth at the shaking of a spear . * Sharp stones are under him : he spreadeth sharp pointed things upon the mire . * He maketh the deep to boil like a pot : he maketh the sea like a pot of ointment . * He maketh a path to shine after him ; one would think the deep to be hoary . * Upon earth there is not his like , who is made without fear . * He beholdeth all high things : he is a king over all the children of pride . * Then Job answered the LORD , and said , * I know that thou canst do every thing , and that no thought can be withholden from thee . * Who is he that hideth counsel without knowledge ? therefore have I uttered that I understood not ; things too wonderful for me , which I knew not . * Hear , I beseech thee , and I will speak : I will demand of thee , and declare thou unto me . * I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear : but now mine eye seeth thee . * Wherefore I abhor myself , and repent in dust and ashes . * And it was so , that after the LORD had spoken these words unto Job , the LORD said to Eliphaz the Temanite , My wrath is kindled against thee , and against thy two friends : for ye have not spoken of me the thing that is right , as my servant Job hath . * Therefore take unto you now seven bullocks and seven rams , and go to my servant Job , and offer up for yourselves a burnt offering ; and my servant Job shall pray for you : for him will I accept : lest I deal with you after your folly , in that ye have not spoken of me the thing which is right , like my servant Job . * So Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite went , and did according as the LORD commanded them : the LORD also accepted Job . * And the LORD turned the captivity of Job , when he prayed for his friends : also the LORD gave Job twice as much as he had before . * Then came there unto him all his brethren , and all his sisters , and all they that had been of his acquaintance before , and did eat bread with him in his house : and they bemoaned him , and comforted him over all the evil that the LORD had brought upon him : every man also gave him a piece of money , and every one an earring of gold . * So the LORD blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning : for he had fourteen thousand sheep , and six thousand camels , and a thousand yoke of oxen , and a thousand she asses . * He had also seven sons and three daughters . * And he called the name of the first , Jemima ; and the name of the second , Kezia ; and the name of the third , Kerenhappuch . * And in all the land were no women found so fair as the daughters of Job : and their father gave them inheritance among their brethren . * After this lived Job an hundred and forty years , and saw his sons , and his sons ' sons , even four generations . * So Job died , being old and full of days . * Though these three men , Noah , Daniel , and Job , were in it , they should deliver but their own souls by their righteousness , saith the Lord GOD . * Though Noah , Daniel , and Job , were in it , as I live , saith the Lord GOD , they shall deliver neither son nor daughter ; they shall but deliver their own souls by their righteousness . * Behold , we count them happy which endure . Ye have heard of the patience of Job , and have seen the end of the Lord ; that the Lord is very pitiful , and of tender mercy .

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