rsv Job:40-42
rsv@Job:40:1 @ And the LORD said to Job:
rsv@Job:40:2 @ "Shall a faultfinder contend with the Almighty? He who argues with God, let him answer it."
rsv@Job:40:3 @ Then Job answered the LORD:
rsv@Job:40:4 @ "Behold, I am of small account; what shall I answer thee? I lay my hand on my mouth.
rsv@Job:40:5 @ I have spoken once, and I will not answer; twice, but I will proceed no further."
rsv@Job:40:6 @ Then the LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind:
rsv@Job:40:7 @ "Gird up your loins like a man; I will question you, and you declare to me.
rsv@Job:40:8 @ Will you even put me in the wrong? Will you condemn me that you may be justified?
rsv@Job:40:9 @ Have you an arm like God, and can you thunder with a voice like his?
rsv@Job:40:10 @ "Deck yourself with majesty and dignity; clothe yourself with glory and splendor.
rsv@Job:40:11 @ Pour forth the overflowings of your anger, and look on every one that is proud, and abase him.
rsv@Job:40:12 @ Look on every one that is proud, and bring him low; and tread down the wicked where they stand.
rsv@Job:40:13 @ Hide them all in the dust together; bind their faces in the world below.
rsv@Job:40:14 @ Then will I also acknowledge to you, that your own right hand can give you victory.
rsv@Job:40:15 @ "Behold, Be'hemoth, which I made as I made you; he eats grass like an ox.
rsv@Job:40:16 @ Behold, his strength in his loins, and his power in the muscles of his belly.
rsv@Job:40:17 @ He makes his tail stiff like a cedar; the sinews of his thighs are knit together.
rsv@Job:40:18 @ His bones are tubes of bronze, his limbs like bars of iron.
rsv@Job:40:19 @ "He is the first of the works of God; let him who made him bring near his sword!
rsv@Job:40:20 @ For the mountains yield food for him where all the wild beasts play.
rsv@Job:40:21 @ Under the lotus plants he lies, in the covert of the reeds and in the marsh.
rsv@Job:40:22 @ For his shade the lotus trees cover him; the willows of the brook surround him.
rsv@Job:40:23 @ Behold, if the river is turbulent he is not frightened; he is confident though Jordan rushes against his mouth.
rsv@Job:40:24 @ Can one take him with hooks, or pierce his nose with a snare?
rsv@Job:41:1 @ "Can you draw out Levi'athan with a fishhook, or press down his tongue with a cord?
rsv@Job:41:2 @ Can you put a rope in his nose, or pierce his jaw with a hook?
rsv@Job:41:3 @ Will he make many supplications to you? Will he speak to you soft words?
rsv@Job:41:4 @ Will he make a covenant with you to take him for your servant for ever?
rsv@Job:41:5 @ Will you play with him as with a bird, or will you put him on leash for your maidens?
rsv@Job:41:6 @ Will traders bargain over him? Will they divide him up among the merchants?
rsv@Job:41:7 @ Can you fill his skin with harpoons, or his head with fishing spears?
rsv@Job:41:8 @ Lay hands on him; think of the battle; you will not do it again!
rsv@Job:41:9 @ Behold, the hope of a man is disappointed; he is laid low even at the sight of him.
rsv@Job:41:10 @ No one is so fierce that he dares to stir him up. Who then is he that can stand before me?
rsv@Job:41:11 @ Who has given to me, that I should repay him? Whatever is under the whole heaven is mine.
rsv@Job:41:12 @ "I will not keep silence concerning his limbs, or his mighty strength, or his goodly frame.
rsv@Job:41:13 @ Who can strip off his outer garment? Who can penetrate his double coat of mail?
rsv@Job:41:14 @ Who can open the doors of his face? Round about his teeth is terror.
rsv@Job:41:15 @ His back is made of rows of shields, shut up closely as with a seal.
rsv@Job:41:16 @ One is so near to another that no air can come between them.
rsv@Job:41:17 @ They are joined one to another; they clasp each other and cannot be separated.
rsv@Job:41:18 @ His sneezings flash forth light, and his eyes are like the eyelids of the dawn.
rsv@Job:41:19 @ Out of his mouth go flaming torches; sparks of fire leap forth.
rsv@Job:41:20 @ Out of his nostrils comes forth smoke, as from a boiling pot and burning rushes.
rsv@Job:41:21 @ His breath kindles coals, and a flame comes forth from his mouth.
rsv@Job:41:22 @ In his neck abides strength, and terror dances before him.
rsv@Job:41:23 @ The folds of his flesh cleave together, firmly cast upon him and immovable.
rsv@Job:41:24 @ His heart is hard as a stone, hard as the nether millstone.
rsv@Job:41:25 @ When he raises himself up the mighty are afraid; at the crashing they are beside themselves.
rsv@Job:41:26 @ Though the sword reaches him, it does not avail; nor the spear, the dart, or the javelin.
rsv@Job:41:27 @ He counts iron as straw, and bronze as rotten wood.
rsv@Job:41:28 @ The arrow cannot make him flee; for him slingstones are turned to stubble.
rsv@Job:41:29 @ Clubs are counted as stubble; he laughs at the rattle of javelins.
rsv@Job:41:30 @ His underparts are like sharp potsherds; he spreads himself like a threshing sledge on the mire.
rsv@Job:41:31 @ He makes the deep boil like a pot; he makes the sea like a pot of ointment.
rsv@Job:41:32 @ Behind him he leaves a shining wake; one would think the deep to be hoary.
rsv@Job:41:33 @ Upon earth there is not his like, a creature without fear.
rsv@Job:41:34 @ He beholds everything that is high; he is king over all the sons of pride."
rsv@Job:42:1 @ Then Job answered the LORD:
rsv@Job:42:2 @ "I know that thou canst do all things, and that no purpose of thine can be thwarted.
rsv@Job:42:3 @ `ho is this that hides counsel without knowledge?' Therefore I have uttered what I did not understand, things too wonderful for me, which I did not know.
rsv@Job:42:4 @ `ear, and I will speak; I will question you, and you declare to me.'
rsv@Job:42:5 @ I had heard of thee by the hearing of the ear, but now my eye sees thee;
rsv@Job:42:6 @ therefore I despise myself, and repent in dust and ashes."
rsv@Job:42:7 @ After the LORD had spoken these words to Job, the LORD said to Eli'phaz the Te'manite: "My wrath is kindled against you and against your two friends; for you have not spoken of me what is right, as my servant Job has.
rsv@Job:42:8 @ Now therefore take seven bulls 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 I will accept his prayer not to deal with you according to your folly; for you have not spoken of me what is right, as my servant Job has."
rsv@Job:42:9 @ So Eli'phaz the Te'manite and Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Na'amathite went and did what the LORD had told them; and the LORD accepted Job's prayer.
rsv@Job:42:10 @ And the LORD restored the fortunes of Job, when he had prayed for his friends; and the LORD gave Job twice as much as he had before.
rsv@Job:42:11 @ Then came to him all his brothers and sisters and all who had known him before, and ate bread with him in his house; and they showed him sympathy and comforted him for all the evil that the LORD had brought upon him; and each of them gave him a piece of money and a ring of gold.
rsv@Job:42:12 @ And the LORD blessed the latter days of Job more than his beginning; and he had fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand she-asses.
rsv@Job:42:13 @ He had also seven sons and three daughters.
rsv@Job:42:14 @ And he called the name of the first Jemi'mah; and the name of the second Kezi'ah; and the name of the third Ker'en-hap'puch.
rsv@Job:42:15 @ And in all the land there were no women so fair as Job's daughters; and their father gave them inheritance among their brothers.
rsv@Job:42:16 @ And after this Job lived a hundred and forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons' sons, four generations.
rsv@Job:42:17 @ And Job died, an old man, and full of days.
rsv@Ezekiel:14:14 @ even if these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, they would deliver but their own lives by their righteousness, says the Lord GOD.
rsv@Ezekiel:14:20 @ even if Noah, Daniel, and Job were in it, as I live, says the Lord GOD, they would deliver neither son nor daughter; they would deliver but their own lives by their righteousness.
rsv@James:5:11 @ Behold, we call those happy who were steadfast. You have heard of the steadfastness of Job, and you have seen the purpose of the Lord, how the Lord is compassionate and merciful.