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

⁸ Would you undo my justice? Would you condemn me so that you can be righteous? ⁹ Do you have an arm (power) like God's? Can your voice thunder like his?

¹⁰ Then adorn yourself with glory and splendor. Clothe yourself in honor and majesty. ¹¹ Unleash the fury of your wrath, look at every proud man and bring him low! ¹² Look at every proud man and humble him, crush the wicked where they stand. ¹³ Bury them all in the dust together and shroud their faces in the grave. ¹⁴ I will admit to you then that your own right hand can save you.

¹⁵ Look at the behemoth, which I made along with you. It feeds on grass as cattle do. ¹⁶ What strength he has in his loins, what power in the muscles of his belly! ¹⁷ His tail sways like a cedar; the sinews of his thighs are close-knit. ¹⁸ His bones are tubes of bronze, his limbs like rods of iron. ¹⁹ He ranks first among the works of God, yet his Maker can approach him with his sword. ²⁰ The hills bring him their produce. All the wild animals play nearby. ²¹ He lies under the lotus plants, hidden among the reeds in the marsh. ²² The lotuses conceal him in their shadow. The poplars by the stream surround him. ²³ The river rages, but he is not alarmed. He is secure, though the Jordan should surge against his mouth. ²⁴ Can anyone capture him by the eyes, or trap him and pierce his nose?

¹ GOD CONTINUES TO QUESTION JOB: ² Can you catch Leviathan with a fishhook or tie his tongue down with a rope? ³ Can you put a rope through his snout or put a hook through his jaws? ⁴ Will he beg you to let him go? Will he plead with you for mercy? ⁵ Will he make an agreement with you and promise to serve you forever? ⁶ Will you tie him like a pet bird, like something to amuse your servant women? ⁷ Will fishermen bargain over him? Will merchants cut him up to sell? ⁸ Can you fill his hide with fishing spears or pierce his head with a harpoon? ⁹ Indeed, hope of overcoming him is false. Should you be overwhelmed at the sight of him? ¹⁰ No one is as fierce that he would dare stir him up. Who then is able to stand against me? ¹¹ Who has preceded me that I should pay him? Everything under heaven is mine.

¹² I will not conceal his limbs, his mighty power, or his graceful proportions. ¹³ Who can remove his outer coat? Who can approach him with a double bridle? ¹⁴ Who can open the doors of his face, with his terrible teeth all around? ¹⁵ His rows of scales are his pride, Shut up tightly as a seal. ¹⁶ One is so near another that no air can come between them. ¹⁷ They are joined one to another, they stick together and cannot be parted. ¹⁸ Its sneezes flash forth light, and its eyes are like the eyelids of the dawn. ¹⁹ From its mouth go flaming torches; sparks of fire leap out. ²⁰ Out of its nostrils comes smoke, as from a boiling pot and burning rushes. ²¹ Its breath kindles coals, and a flame comes out of its mouth. ²² In its neck abides strength, and terror dances before it. ²³ The folds of its flesh cling together; it is firmly cast and immovable. ²⁴ Its heart is as hard as stone, as hard as the lower millstone. ²⁵ When it raises itself up the gods are afraid; at the crashing they are beside themselves. ²⁶ Though the sword reaches it, it does not avail, nor does the spear, the dart, or the javelin. ²⁷ It considers iron to be like straw and bronze to be like rotten wood. ²⁸ An arrow will not make it run away. Stones from a sling turn to dust against it. ²⁹ It considers clubs to be like stubble, and it laughs at a rattling javelin. ³⁰ Its underside is like sharp pieces of broken pottery. It stretches out like a threshing sledge on the mud. ³¹ It makes the deep sea boil like a pot. It stirs up the ocean like a boiling kettle. ³² It leaves a shining path behind it so that the sea appears to have silvery hair. ³³ Nothing on land can compare to it. It was made fearless. ³⁴ It looks down on all high things. It is king of everyone who is arrogant.