Moff JOB Chapter 40

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Will critics still dispute with the Almighty?

To argue with God, answer all these questions.

Will you seek to discredit my just ruling?

To justify yourself, will you condemn me?

If you have an arm like God’s

if you can thunder with a voice like his,

then deck yourself in majesty and pomp,

array yourself in grandeur and in glory;

pour out the fury of your wrath

abase all who are proud,

lay all the lofty low,

and crush the wicked on the spot,

bury them all in the dust,

and shroud their faces with the darkness;

then I will offer praise to you,

because your own right hand wins victory!”

3 Then Eyob replied to the Eternal:

“I am of small account: how can I answer thee?

I lay my hand upon my lips;

once I have spoken--never again!

twice--but I will not say one other word!

I admit thou canst do anything,

that nothing is too hard for thee.

I thoughtlessly confused the issues;

I spoke without intelligence,

of wonders far beyond my ken.

I had heard of thee by hearsay,

but now mine eyes have seen thee;

so I despise myself,

in dust and ashes I repent.”

7 Now after the Eternal had spoken thus to Eyob, the Eternal said to Eliphaz the Temanite, "My anger is hot against you and your two friends, for, unlike my servant Eyob, you have not told the truth about me." 8 But go to my servant Eyob with seven bullocks and seven rams: offer them as a burnt-sacrifice for yourselves, and my servant Eyob shall intercede for you; out of regard for him, I will not wreak destruction upon you for your impiety.” 9 Whereupon Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Minaean, went and did as the Eternal had told them; and the Eternal paid regard to Eyob’s intercession. 10 Also, when Eyob prayed for his friends, the Eternal turned his own fortunes; the Eternal gave Eyob twice as much as he had before. 11 Then came all his brothers and sisters and his old friends; they dined with Eyob in his house, condoling with him and consoling him for all the misery that the Eternal had brought upon him; they each presented him with a piece of money and a gold ring.

12 In the end, then, the Eternal made Eyob more prosperous than he had been at first; he had fourteen thousand sheep and goats, six thousand camels, a thousand pair of oxen, and a thousand she-asses; 13 also, he had seven sons, and three daughters 14 whom he called Ringdove, Cassia, and Applescent. 15 In all the world there were no women to be found as handsome as the daughters of Eyob; their father even let them share the right of inheritance along with their brothers. 16 After this Eyob lived for a hundred and forty years; he lived to see his grandsons and great-grandsons--four generations. 17 Then Eyob died, old, after a full life.

[[Look at the hippopotamus there,

munching grass like an ox!

Look at the strength of his thighs,

and the stout muscles of his belly;

his tail is stiff as any cedar,

the sinews of his thighs are closely knit;

his bones are tubes of bronze,

his ribs like iron bars,

He is God’s very masterpiece,

made to be lord of his fellows.

The rivers furnish him with food;

wild animals are all amazed at him,

as there he lies, below the lotus-trees,

in covert of the reed and fen,

in the shade of thorny thickets,

surrounded by the water-willows.

He never trembles, though the torrent rages;

he is unmoved amid the swollen streams.

Who catches him with any barb?

Who runs a rope through his nose?

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