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

⁸ Would you indeed annul my justice? Would you declare me guilty so that you might be right? ⁹ Do you have an arm as powerful as God's, and can you thunder with a voice like his?

¹⁰ Adorn yourself, then, with majesty and excellency, and clothe yourself with glory and honor! ¹¹ Scatter abroad the abundance of your anger. Look at every proud man and bring him low; ¹² Look at every proud man and abase him; crush the wicked on the spot! ¹³ Hide them in the dust together, imprison them in the grave. ¹⁴ Then I myself will acknowledge to you that your own right hand can save you.

¹⁵ "Look now at Behemoth, which I made as I made you; it eats grass like the ox. ¹⁶ Look at its strength in its loins, and its power in the muscles of its belly. ¹⁷ It makes its tail stiff like a cedar, the sinews of its thighs are tightly wound. ¹⁸ Its bones are tubes of bronze, its limbs like bars of iron. ¹⁹ It ranks first among the works of God, the One who made it has furnished it with a sword. ²⁰ For the hills bring it food, where all the wild animals play. ²¹ Under the lotus trees it lies, in the secrecy of the reeds and the marsh. ²² The lotus trees conceal it in their shadow; the poplars by the stream conceal it. ²³ If the river rages, it is not disturbed, it is secure, though the Jordan should surge up to its mouth. ²⁴ Can anyone catch it by its eyes, or pierce its nose with a snare?

¹ "Can you pull in Leviathan with a hook, and tie down its tongue with a rope? ² Can you put a cord through its nose, or pierce its jaw with a hook? ³ Will it make numerous supplications to you, will it speak to you with tender words? ⁴ Will it make a pact with you, so you could take it as your slave for life? ⁵ Can you play with it, like a bird, or tie it on a leash for your girls? ⁶ Will partners bargain for it? Will they divide it up among the merchants? ⁷ Can you fill its hide with harpoons or its head with fishing spears? ⁸ If you lay your hand on it, you will remember the fight, and you will never do it again! ⁹ See, his expectation is wrong, he is laid low even at the sight of it. ¹⁰ Is it not fierce when it is awakened? Who is he, then, who can stand before it? ¹¹ (Who has confronted me that I should repay? Everything under heaven belongs to me!)

¹² I will not keep silent about its limbs, and the extent of its might, and the grace of its arrangement. ¹³ Who can uncover its outer covering? Who can penetrate to the inside of its armor? ¹⁴ Who can open the doors of its mouth? Its teeth all around are fearsome. ¹⁵ Its back has rows of shields, shut up closely together as with a seal; ¹⁶ each one is so close to the next that no air can come between them. ¹⁷ They lock tightly together, one to the next; they cling together and cannot be separated. ¹⁸ Its snorting throws out flashes of light; its eyes are like the red glow of dawn. ¹⁹ Out of its mouth go flames, sparks of fire shoot forth! ²⁰ Smoke streams from its nostrils as from a boiling pot over burning rushes. ²¹ Its breath sets coals ablaze and a flame shoots from its mouth. ²² Strength lodges in its neck, and despair runs before it. ²³ The folds of its flesh are tightly joined; they are firm on it, immovable. ²⁴ Its heart is hard as rock, hard as a lower millstone. ²⁵ When it rises up, the mighty are terrified, at its thrashing about they withdraw. ²⁶ Whoever strikes it with a sword will have no effect, nor with the spear, arrow, or dart. ²⁷ It regards iron as straw and bronze as rotten wood. ²⁸ Arrows do not make it flee; slingstones become like chaff to it. ²⁹ A club is counted as a piece of straw; it laughs at the rattling of the lance. ³⁰ Its underparts are the sharp points of potsherds, it leaves its mark in the mud like a threshing sledge. ³¹ It makes the deep boil like a cauldron and stirs up the sea like a pot of ointment, ³² It leaves a glistening wake behind it; one would think the deep had a head of white hair. ³³ The likes of it is not on earth, a creature without fear. ³⁴ It looks on every haughty being; it is king over all that are proud."