A word was brought to me in secret;
my ears caught a whisper of it.

He traps the wise in their craftiness
so that the plans of the deceptive
are quickly brought to an end.

If I am proud, You hunt me like a lion
and again display Your miraculous power against me.

Were you the first person ever born,
or were you brought forth before the hills?

Their bulls breed without fail;
their cows calve and do not miscarry.

They are exalted for a moment, then they are gone;
they are brought low and shrivel up like everything else.
They wither like heads of grain.

No bird of prey knows that path;
no falcon’s eye has seen it.

Proud beasts have never walked on it;
no lion has ever prowled over it.

in order to turn a person from his actions
and suppress his pride.

so that he detests bread,
and his soul despises his favorite food.

There they cry out, but He does not answer,
because of the pride of evil men.

when I declared: “You may come this far, but no farther;
your proud waves stop here”?

Do you make him leap like a locust?
His proud snorting fills one with terror.

Its brood gulps down blood,
and where the slain are, it is there.

Unleash your raging anger;
look on every proud person and humiliate him.

Look on every proud person and humble him;
trample the wicked where they stand.

Can you play with him like a bird
or put him on a leash for your girls?

His pride is in his rows of scales,
closely sealed together.

He surveys everything that is haughty;
he is king over all the proud beasts.

All his brothers, sisters, and former acquaintances came to his house and dined with him in his house. They sympathized with him and comforted him concerning all the adversity the Lord had brought on him. Each one gave him a qesitah and a gold earring.

So the Lord blessed the last part of Job’s life more than the first. He owned 14,000 sheep, 6,000 camels, 1,000 yoke of oxen, and 1,000 female donkeys.