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

⁸ Will you also set aside My judgment? Will you condemn Me so that you may be justified? ⁹ And have you an arm like God? Or can you thunder with a voice like His?

¹⁰ Adorn yourself now with majesty and grandeur, and with glory and honor clothe yourself. ¹¹ Pour forth the rage of your wrath; and behold everyone who is proud, and abase him. ¹² Look on everyone who is proud, and bring him low; and tread down the wicked in their place. ¹³ Hide them in the dust together; and bind their faces in darkness. ¹⁴ Then I also will confess to you that your own right hand can save you.

¹⁵ Now behold behemoth, which I made along with you; he eats grass like an ox; ¹⁶ see, now, his strength is in his loins, and his force is in the muscles of his belly. ¹⁷ He hangs his tail like a cedar; the sinews of his thighs are knit together. ¹⁸ His bones are like tubes of bronze; his bones are like bars of iron. ¹⁹ He is the first of the ways of God; his Maker brings near his sword. ²⁰ For the mountains yield food for him, and all the beasts of the field play there. ²¹ He lies under the lotus, in the hiding place of the reed and the marsh. ²² The lotus trees cover him with their shadow; the willows of the brook surround him. ²³ Behold, though a flood presses, he does not run away; he feels safe even if Jordan swells up to his mouth. ²⁴ Shall any take him before his eyes, or pierce through his nose with cords?

¹ Can you draw out the leviathan with a hook, or hold down his tongue with a cord? ² Can you put a reed rope into his nose, or pierce his jaw with a thorn? ³ Will he multiply pleas for help to you? Will he speak soft words to you? ⁴ Will he make a covenant with you? Will you take him for a servant for ever? ⁵ Will you play with him as with a bird? Or will you bind him for your maidens? ⁶ Shall your companions bargain over him? Shall they divide him among the merchants? ⁷ Can you fill his skin with barbed irons, or his head with fishing spears? ⁸ Lay your hand on him, think of the battle; you will never do it again. ⁹ Behold, his hope has been made false; will not one be cast down at the sight of him? ¹⁰ None is so fierce as to dare to stir him up; who then is able to stand before Me? ¹¹ Who has gone before Me that I should repay? All that is the heavens is Mine.

¹² I will not keep silent concerning his limbs, or his mighty strength, or the grace of his frame. ¹³ Who can take off the surface of his skin; who can come to him with his double bridle? ¹⁴ Who can open the doors to his face? Terror is round about his teeth. ¹⁵ The rows of shields are his pride, shut up with a close seal; ¹⁶ one is so near to another that no air can come between them; ¹⁷ they are joined one to another, they clasp each other so that they can not be separated. ¹⁸ His sneezings flash forth light, and his eyes are like the eyelids of the dawn. ¹⁹ Out of his mouth go burning torches, sparks of fire leap out. ²⁰ Out of his nostrils goes smoke, as out of a boiling pot fired by reeds. ²¹ His breath kindles coals, and a flame goes out of his mouth. ²² In his neck remains strength, and terror dances before him. ²³ The folds of his flesh are joined together, cast firm on him; he cannot be moved. ²⁴ His heart is cast hard as a stone, even cast hard as a piece of a riding millstone. ²⁵ The mighty are afraid from his rising; they are beside themselves from the crashing. ²⁶ The sword overtakes him, but will not hold firm. The spear, the dart, and the javelin also. ²⁷ He counts iron as straw, bronze as rotten wood. ²⁸ An arrow cannot make him flee; slingstones are turned by him into stubble. ²⁹ Darts are counted as straw; he laughs at the shaking of a javelin. ³⁰ Points of potsherds are under him; he spreads sharp pointed marks on the mire. ³¹ He makes the deep boil like a pot; he makes the sea like a pot of ointment. ³² He makes a path to shine after him; one would think the deep to be gray-headed. ³³ On earth there is nothing like him, one made without fear. ³⁴ He beholds all high things; he is a king over all the sons of pride.