Job 40:8-Job 41:34 - Yahweh Interrogates Job Again

⁸ Will you even make my right of no value? will you say that I am wrong in order to make clear that you are right? ⁹ Have you an arm like God? have you a voice of thunder like his?

¹⁰ Put on the ornaments of your pride; be clothed with glory and power: ¹¹ Let your wrath be overflowing; let your eyes see all the sons of pride, and make them low. ¹² Send destruction on all who are lifted up, pulling down the sinners from their places. ¹³ Let them be covered together in the dust; let their faces be dark in the secret place of the underworld. ¹⁴ Then I will give praise to you, saying that your right hand is able to give you salvation.

¹⁵ See now the Great Beast, whom I made, even as I made you; he takes grass for food, like the ox. ¹⁶ His strength is in his body, and his force in the muscles of his stomach. ¹⁷ His tail is curving like a cedar; the muscles of his legs are joined together. ¹⁸ His bones are pipes of brass, his legs are like rods of iron. ¹⁹ He is the chief of the ways of God, made by him for his pleasure. ²⁰ He takes the produce of the mountains, where all the beasts of the field are at play. ²¹ He takes his rest under the trees of the river, and in the pool, under the shade of the water-plants. ²² He is covered by the branches of the trees; the grasses of the stream are round him. ²³ Truly, if the river is overflowing, it gives him no cause for fear; he has no sense of danger, even if Jordan is rushing against his mouth. ²⁴ Will anyone take him when he is on the watch, or put metal teeth through his nose?

¹ Is it possible for Leviathan to be pulled out with a fish-hook, or for a hook to be put through the bone of his mouth? ² Will you put a cord into his nose, or take him away with a cord round his tongue? ³ Will he make prayers to you, or say soft words to you? ⁴ Will he make an agreement with you, so that you may take him as a servant for ever? ⁵ Will you make sport with him, as with a bird? or put him in chains for your young women? ⁶ Will the fishermen make profit out of him? will they have him cut up for the traders? ⁷ Will you put sharp-pointed irons into his skin, or fish-spears into his head? ⁸ Only put your hand on him, and see what a fight you will have; you will not do it again! ⁹ Truly, the hope of his attacker is false; he is overcome even on seeing him! ¹⁰ He is so cruel that no one is ready to go against him. Who then is able to keep his place before me? ¹¹ Who ever went against me, and got the better of me? There is no one under heaven!

¹² I will not keep quiet about the parts of his body, or about his power, and the strength of his frame. ¹³ Who has ever taken off his outer skin? who may come inside his inner coat of iron? ¹⁴ Who has made open the doors of his face? Fear is round about his teeth. ¹⁵ His back is made of lines of plates, joined tight together, one against the other, like a stamp. ¹⁶ One is so near to the other that no air may come between them. ¹⁷ They take a grip of one another; they are joined together, so that they may not be parted. ¹⁸ His sneezings give out flames, and his eyes are like the eyes of the dawn. ¹⁹ Out of his mouth go burning lights, and flames of fire are jumping up. ²⁰ Smoke comes out of his nose, like a pot boiling on the fire. ²¹ His breath puts fire to coals, and a flame goes out of his mouth. ²² Strength is in his neck, and fear goes dancing before him. ²³ The plates of his flesh are joined together, fixed, and not to be moved. ²⁴ His heart is as strong as a stone, hard as the lower crushing-stone. ²⁵ When he gets ready for the fight, the strong are overcome with fear. ²⁶ The sword may come near him but is not able to go through him; the spear, or the arrow, or the sharp-pointed iron. ²⁷ Iron is to him as dry grass, and brass as soft wood. ²⁸ The arrow is not able to put him to flight: stones are no more to him than dry stems. ²⁹ A thick stick is no better than a leaf of grass, and he makes sport of the onrush of the spear. ³⁰ Under him are sharp edges of broken pots: as if he was pulling a grain-crushing instrument over the wet earth. ³¹ The deep is boiling like a pot of spices, and the sea like a perfume-vessel. ³² After him his way is shining, so that the deep seems white. ³³ On earth there is not another like him, who is made without fear. ³⁴ Everything which is high goes in fear of him; he is king over all the sons of pride.