It is not we that can find out the Almighty: for in power, equity, and righteousness, he is higher than can be expressed.

Therefore people revered him; he does not regard any {who think that they are wise}."

Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge?

Gird, I pray thee - like a strong man - thy loins, that I may ask thee, and inform thou me:

to take hold of the earth's skirts so that the wicked might be shaken off from it?

It transformeth itself like the clay of a seal, so that things stand forth like one arrayed;

That their light may be withdrawn from the lawless, and, the lofty arm, be shivered.

Have you gone to the springs that fill the sea, or walked about in the recesses of the deep?

That thou dost take it unto its boundary, And that thou dost understand The paths of its house.

That I have kept back for a time of distress, For a day of conflict and battle.

What road leads to the place where light is dispersed?
Where is the source of the east wind that spreads across the earth?

that it watereth and moistureth the dry and barren ground:

That the waters are as hard as stones, and lie congealed above the deep.

Knewest thou the course of heaven, that thou mayest set up the ordinance thereof upon the earth?

Can you lift up your voice to the clouds so that a flood of water may cover you?

Can you send forth lightnings, that they may go? And will they say to you, 'Here we are'?

Do you go after food for the she-lion, or get meat so that the young lions may have enough,

Can you number the months that they fulfill? or know you the time when they bring forth?

That they may give no force for the multitude of people in the cities, neither regard the crying of the driver,

He ranges the mountains that are his pasture to search for anything green.

Canst thou bind the wild-ox, so that - with the ridge - shall run his cord? Or will he harrow the furrows after thee?

Dost thou trust in him That he doth bring back thy seed? And to thy threshing-floor doth gather it?

The wing of the Ostrich that waveth itself joyfully, Is it the pinion of lovingkindness or the plumage?

That she puts her eggs on the earth, warming them in the dust,

And she forgetteth that a foot may press it, And a beast of the field tread it down.

It deals cruelly with its young ones, as [if] [they were] not its [own], as [if] without fear [that] its labor [were] in vain,

And that because God hath taken wisdom from her, and hath not given her understanding.

“Yet when she lifts herself on high,
[So swift is she that] she laughs at the horse and his rider.

Do you give strength to the horse? is it by your hand that his neck is clothed with power?

that he letteth himself be driven forth like a grasshopper, whereas the stout neighing that he maketh, is fearful?

He swalloweth the ground with fierceness and rage: neither believeth he that it is the sound of the trumpet.

"Is it by your wisdom that the hawk soars, and stretches her wings toward the south?

Is it at your command that the eagle mounts up, and makes his nest on high?

Shall he that contends with the Almighty instruct him? he that reproves God, let him answer it.

Gird up thy loins like a man, and tell me the things that I will ask thee.

Dost thou also make void My judgment? Dost thou condemn Me, That thou mayest be righteous?

Put forth the rage of your wrath: and behold every one that is proud, and abase him.

Look on every one that is proud, and bring him low; and tread down the wicked in their place.

buried them in the dust together, and sent them bound to that secret place,

And I will also praise you, that your [own] right hand can save you.

Lo, I pray thee, Behemoth, that I made with thee: Grass as an ox he eateth.

Now take a look at the strength that he has in his loins, and in the muscles of his abdomen.

He is the first of the ways of God: he that made him can make his sword to approach unto him.

that the mountains should give him grass, where all the beasts of the field take their pastime.

The lotus trees cover him with their shade, and willows that line the wadis surround him.

Behold, he drinketh up a river, and hasteth not: he trusteth that he can draw up Jordan into his mouth.

Will he make a covenant with you, that you should take him for a servant forever?

that thy companions may hew him in pieces, to be parted among the merchant men?

Lay your hand on him, and you'll remember the struggle. You'll never do that again!

For when thou thinkest to have hold upon him, he shall beguile thee: Every man also that seeth him, shall go back.

None so fierce that he doth awake him, And who is he before Me stationeth himself?

Who has given to me, that I should repay him? whatsoever is under the whole heaven is mine.

One is so near to another, that no air can come between them.

They are joined one to another, they stick together, that they cannot be parted.

"His neck is so powerful that all who meet him are terrified.

The members of his body are joined so strait one to another, and cleave so fast together, that he cannot be moved.

His heart is as hard as stone, and as fast as the stythie that the hammer man smiteth upon.

The sword of him that reaches him cannot avail: neither the spear, the dart, nor the javelin.

He starteth not away for him that bendeth the bow: and as for sling stones, he careth as much for stubble as for them.

He counteth the hammer no better than a straw, he laugheth him to scorn that shaketh the spear.

Behind it, {it leaves a glistening wake}; one would think [that] the deep [has] gray hair.

There is not on the earth his like, That is made without terror.

It observes all [the] lofty; it [is] king {over all that are proud}."

Thou hast known that for all things Thou art able, And not withheld from Thee is any device:

Who is he that hides counsel without knowledge? therefore have I uttered what I understood not; things too wonderful for me, which I knew not.

O hearken thou unto me also, and let me speak: answer me unto the thing that I will ask thee.

For this cause I give witness that what I said is false, and in sorrow I take my seat in the dust.

And it cometh to pass after Jehovah's speaking these words unto Job, that Jehovah saith unto Eliphaz the Temanite, 'Burned hath Mine anger against thee, and against thy two friends, because ye have not spoken concerning Me rightly, like My servant Job.

Therefore take unto you now seven bullocks and seven rams, and go to my servant Job, and offer up for yourselves a burnt offering; and my servant Job shall pray for you: for him will I accept: lest I deal with you after your folly, in that you have not spoken of me the thing which is right, like my servant Job.

So Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite went, and did according to that which Yahweh had spoken unto them, - and Yahweh accepted Job.

And Jehovah hath turned to the captivity of Job in his praying for his friends, and Jehovah doth add to all that Job hath -- to double.

And come unto him do all his brethren, and all his sisters, and all his former acquaintances, and they eat bread with him in his house, and bemoan him, and comfort him concerning all the evil that Jehovah had brought upon him, and they gave to him each one kesitah, and each one ring of gold.

After this lived Job forty years, so that he saw his children, and his children's children to the fourth generation.