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| [9] From its chamber comes the whirlwind, | | [9] From its chamber comes the whirlwind, |
| and cold from the scattering winds. | | and cold from the scattering winds. |
− | [10 | + | [10 10] By the breath of God ice is given, |
| + | and the broad waters are frozen fast. |
| + | [11] He loads the thick cloud with moisture; |
| + | the clouds scatter his lightning. |
| + | [12] They turn round and round by his guidance, |
| + | to accomplish all that he commands them |
| + | on the face of the habitable world. |
| + | [13] Whether for correction, or for his land, |
| + | or for love, he causes it to happen. |
| + | [14] "Hear this, O Job; |
| + | stop and consider the wondrous works of God. |
| + | [15] Do you know how God lays his command upon them, |
| + | and causes the lightning of his cloud to shine? |
| + | [16] Do you know the balancings of the clouds, |
| + | the wondrous works of him who is perfect in knowledge, |
| + | [17] you whose garments are hot |
| + | when the earth is still because of the south wind? |
| + | [18] Can you, like him, spread out the skies, |
| + | hard as a molten mirror? |
| + | [19] Teach us what we shall say to him; |
| + | we cannot draw up our case because of darkness. |
| + | [20] Shall it be told him that I would speak? |
| + | Did a man ever wish that he would be swallowed up? |
| + | [21] "And now men cannot look on the light |
| + | when it is bright in the skies, |
| + | when the wind has passed and cleared them. |
| + | [22] Out of the north comes golden splendor; |
| + | God is clothed with terrible majesty. |
| + | [23] The Almighty -- we cannot find him; |
| + | he is great in power and justice, |
| + | and abundant righteousness he will not violate. |
| + | [24] Therefore men fear him; |
| + | he does not regard any who are wise in their own conceit." |
| + | ==Job.38== |
| + | [1] Then the LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind: |
| + | [2] "Who is this that darkens counsel by words without knowledge? |
| + | [3] Gird up your loins like a man, |
| + | I will question you, and you shall declare to me. |
| + | [4] "Where were you when I laid the foundation of the earth? |
| + | Tell me, if you have understanding. |
| + | [5] Who determined its measurements -- surely you know! |
| + | Or who stretched the line upon it? |
| + | [6] On what were its bases sunk, |
| + | or who laid its cornerstone, |
| + | [7] when the morning stars sang together, |
| + | and all the sons of God shouted for joy? |
| + | [8] "Or who shut in the sea with doors, |
| + | when it burst forth from the womb; |
| + | [9] when I made clouds its garment, |
| + | and thick darkness its swaddling band, |
| + | [10] and prescribed bounds for it, |
| + | and set bars and doors, |
| + | [11] and said, `Thus far shall you come, and no farther, |
| + | and here shall your proud waves be stayed'? |
| + | [12] "Have you commanded the morning since your days began, |
| + | and caused the dawn to know its place, |
| + | [13] that it might take hold of the skirts of the earth, |
| + | and the wicked be shaken out of it? |
| + | [14] It is changed like clay under the seal, |
| + | and it is dyed like a garment. |
| + | [15] From the wicked their light is withheld, |
| + | and their uplifted arm is broken. |
| + | [16] "Have you entered into the springs of the sea, |
| + | or walked in the recesses of the deep? |
| + | [17] Have the gates of death been revealed to you, |
| + | or have you seen the gates of deep darkness? |
| + | [18] Have you comprehended the expanse of the earth? |
| + | Declare, if you know all this. |
| + | [19] "Where is the way to the dwelling of light, |
| + | and where is the place of darkness, |
| + | [20] that you may take it to its territory |
| + | and that you may discern the paths to its home? |
| + | [21] You know, for you were born then, |
| + | and the number of your days is great! |
| + | [22] "Have you entered the storehouses of the snow, |
| + | or have you seen the storehouses of the hail, |
| + | [23] which I have reserved for the time of trouble, |
| + | for the day of battle and war? |
| + | [24] What is the way to the place where the light is distributed, |
| + | or where the east wind is scattered upon the earth? |
| + | [25] "Who has cleft a channel for the torrents of rain, |
| + | and a way for the thunderbolt, |
| + | [26] to bring rain on a land where no man is, |
| + | on the desert in which there is no man; |
| + | [27] to satisfy the waste and desolate land, |
| + | and to make the ground put forth grass? |
| + | [28] "Has the rain a father, |
| + | or who has begotten the drops of dew? |
| + | [29] From whose womb did the ice come forth, |
| + | and who has given birth to the hoarfrost of heaven? |
| + | [30] The waters become hard like stone, |
| + | and the face of the deep is frozen. |
| + | [31] "Can you bind the chains of the Plei'ades, |
| + | or loose the cords of Orion? |
| + | [32] Can you lead forth the Maz'zaroth in their season, |
| + | or can you guide the Bear with its children? |
| + | [33] Do you know the ordinances of the heavens? |
| + | Can you establish their rule on the earth? |
| + | [34] "Can you lift up your voice to the clouds, |
| + | that a flood of waters may cover you? |
| + | [35] Can you send forth lightnings, that they may go |
| + | and say to you, `Here we are'? |
| + | [36] Who has put wisdom in the clouds, |
| + | or given understanding to the mists? |
| + | [37] Who can number the clouds by wisdom? |
| + | Or who can tilt the waterskins of the heavens, |
| + | [38] when the dust runs into a mass |
| + | and the clods cleave fast together? |
| + | [39] "Can you hunt the prey for the lion, |
| + | or satisfy the appetite of the young lions, |
| + | [40] when they crouch in their dens, |
| + | or lie in wait in their covert? |
| + | [41] Who provides for the raven its prey, |
| + | when its young ones cry to God, |
| + | and wander about for lack of food? |
| + | ==Job.39== |
| + | [1] "Do you know when the mountain goats bring forth? |
| + | Do you observe the calving of the hinds? |
| + | [2] Can you number the months that they fulfil, |
| + | and do you know the time when they bring forth, |
| + | [3] when they crouch, bring forth their offspring, |
| + | and are delivered of their young? |
| + | [4] Their young ones become strong, they grow up in the open; |
| + | they go forth, and do not return to them. |
| + | [5] "Who has let the wild ass go free? |
| + | Who has loosed the bonds of the swift ass, |
| + | [6] to whom I have given the steppe for his home, |
| + | and the salt land for his dwelling place? |
| + | [7] He scorns the tumult of the city; |
| + | he hears not the shouts of the driver. |
| + | [8] He ranges the mountains as his pasture, |
| + | and he searches after every green thing. |
| + | [9] "Is the wild ox willing to serve you? |
| + | Will he spend the night at your crib? |
| + | [10] Can you bind him in the furrow with ropes, |
| + | or will he harrow the valleys after you? |
| + | [11] Will you depend on him because his strength is great, |
| + | and will you leave to him your labor? |
| + | [12] Do you have faith in him that he will return, |
| + | and bring your grain to your threshing floor? |
| + | [13] "The wings of the ostrich wave proudly; |
| + | but are they the pinions and plumage of love? |
| + | [14] For she leaves her eggs to the earth, |
| + | and lets them be warmed on the ground, |
| + | [15] forgetting that a foot may crush them, |
| + | and that the wild beast may trample them. |
| + | [16] She deals cruelly with her young, as if they were not hers; |
| + | though her labor be in vain, yet she has no fear; |
| + | [17] because God has made her forget wisdom, |
| + | and given her no share in understanding. |
| + | [18] When she rouses herself to flee, |
| + | she laughs at the horse and his rider. |
| + | [19] "Do you give the horse his might? |
| + | Do you clothe his neck with strength? |
| + | [20] Do you make him leap like the locust? |
| + | His majestic snorting is terrible. |
| + | [21] He paws in the valley, and exults in his strength; |
| + | he goes out to meet the weapons. |
| + | [22] He laughs at fear, and is not dismayed; |
| + | he does not turn back from the sword. |
| + | [23] Upon him rattle the quiver, |
| + | the flashing spear and the javelin. |
| + | [24] With fierceness and rage he swallows the ground; |
| + | he cannot stand still at the sound of the trumpet. |
| + | [25] When the trumpet sounds, he says `Aha!' |
| + | He smells the battle from afar, |
| + | the thunder of the captains, and the shouting. |
| + | [26] "Is it by your wisdom that the hawk soars, |
| + | and spreads his wings toward the south? |
| + | [27] Is it at your command that the eagle mounts up |
| + | and makes his nest on high? |
| + | [28] On the rock he dwells and makes his home |
| + | in the fastness of the rocky crag. |
| + | [29] Thence he spies out the prey; |
| + | his eyes behold it afar off. |
| + | [30] His young ones suck up blood; |
| + | and where the slain are, there is he." |
| + | ==Job.40== |
| + | [1] And the LORD said to Job: |
| + | [2] "Shall a faultfinder contend with the Almighty? |
| + | He who argues with God, let him answer it." |
| + | [3] Then Job answered the LORD: |
| + | [4] "Behold, I am of small account; what shall I answer thee? |
| + | I lay my hand on my mouth. |
| + | [5] I have spoken once, and I will not answer; |
| + | twice, but I will proceed no further." |
| + | [6] Then the LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind: |
| + | [7] "Gird up your loins like a man; |
| + | I will question you, and you declare to me. |
| + | [8] Will you even put me in the wrong? |
| + | Will you condemn me that you may be justified? |
| + | [9] Have you an arm like God, |
| + | and can you thunder with a voice like his? |
| + | [10] "Deck yourself with majesty and dignity; |
| + | clothe yourself with glory and splendor. |
| + | [11] Pour forth the overflowings of your anger, |
| + | and look on every one that is proud, and abase him. |
| + | [12] Look on every one that is proud, and bring him low; |
| + | and tread down the wicked where they stand. |
| + | [13] Hide them all in the dust together; |
| + | bind their faces in the world below. |
| + | [14] Then will I also acknowledge to you, |
| + | that your own right hand can give you victory. |
| + | [15] "Behold, Be'hemoth, |
| + | which I made as I made you; |
| + | he eats grass like an ox. |
| + | [16] Behold, his strength in his loins, |
| + | and his power in the muscles of his belly. |
| + | [17] He makes his tail stiff like a cedar; |
| + | the sinews of his thighs are knit together. |
| + | [18] His bones are tubes of bronze, |
| + | his limbs like bars of iron. |
| + | [19] "He is the first of the works of God; |
| + | let him who made him bring near his sword! |
| + | [20] For the mountains yield food for him |
| + | where all the wild beasts play. |
| + | [21] Under the lotus plants he lies, |
| + | in the covert of the reeds and in the marsh. |
| + | [22] For his shade the lotus trees cover him; |
| + | the willows of the brook surround him. |
| + | [23] Behold, if the river is turbulent he is not frightened; |
| + | he is confident though Jordan rushes against his mouth. |
| + | [24] Can one take him with hooks, |
| + | or pierce his nose with a snare? |
| + | ==Job.41== |
| + | [1] "Can you draw out Levi'athan with a fishhook, |
| + | or press down his tongue with a cord? |
| + | [2] Can you put a rope in his nose, |
| + | or pierce his jaw with a hook? |
| + | [3] Will he make many supplications to you? |
| + | Will he speak to you soft words? |
| + | [4] Will he make a covenant with you |
| + | to take him for your servant for ever? |
| + | [5] Will you play with him as with a bird, |
| + | or will you put him on leash for your maidens? |
| + | [6] Will traders bargain over him? |
| + | Will they divide him up among the merchants? |
| + | [7] Can you fill his skin with harpoons, |
| + | or his head with fishing spears? |
| + | [8] Lay hands on him; |
| + | think of the battle; you will not do it again! |
| + | [9] Behold, the hope of a man is disappointed; |
| + | he is laid low even at the sight of him. |
| + | [10] No one is so fierce that he dares to stir him up. |
| + | Who then is he that can stand before me? |
| + | [11] Who has given to me, that I should repay him? |
| + | Whatever is under the whole heaven is mine. |
| + | [12] "I will not keep silence concerning his limbs, |
| + | or his mighty strength, or his goodly frame. |
| + | [13] Who can strip off his outer garment? |
| + | Who can penetrate his double coat of mail? |
| + | [14] Who can open the doors of his face? |
| + | Round about his teeth is terror. |
| + | [15] His back is made of rows of shields, |
| + | shut up closely as with a 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 and cannot be separated. |
| + | [18] His sneezings flash forth light, |
| + | and his eyes are like the eyelids of the dawn. |
| + | [19] Out of his mouth go flaming torches; |
| + | sparks of fire leap forth. |
| + | [20] Out of his nostrils comes forth smoke, |
| + | as from a boiling pot and burning rushes. |
| + | [21] His breath kindles coals, |
| + | and a flame comes forth from his mouth. |
| + | [22] In his neck abides strength, |
| + | and terror dances before him. |
| + | [23] The folds of his flesh cleave together, |
| + | firmly cast upon him and immovable. |
| + | [24] His heart is hard as a stone, |
| + | hard as the nether millstone. |
| + | [25] When he raises himself up the mighty are afraid; |
| + | at the crashing they are beside themselves. |
| + | [26] Though the sword reaches him, it does not avail; |
| + | nor the spear, the dart, or the javelin. |
| + | [27] He counts iron as straw, |
| + | and bronze as rotten wood. |
| + | [28] The arrow cannot make him flee; |
| + | for him slingstones are turned to stubble. |
| + | [29] Clubs are counted as stubble; |
| + | he laughs at the rattle of javelins. |
| + | [30] His underparts are like sharp potsherds; |
| + | he spreads himself like a threshing sledge on the mire. |
| + | [31] He makes the deep boil like a pot; |
| + | he makes the sea like a pot of ointment. |
| + | [32] Behind him he leaves a shining wake; |
| + | one would think the deep to be hoary. |
| + | [33] Upon earth there is not his like, |
| + | a creature without fear. |
| + | [34] He beholds everything that is high; |
| + | he is king over all the sons of pride." |
| + | ==Job.42== |
| + | [1] Then Job answered the LORD: |
| + | [2] "I know that thou canst do all things, |
| + | and that no purpose of thine can be thwarted. |
| + | [3] `Who is this that hides counsel without knowledge?' |
| + | Therefore I have uttered what I did not understand, |
| + | things too wonderful for me, which I did not know. |
| + | [4] `Hear, and I will speak; |
| + | I will question you, and you declare to me.' |
| + | [5] I had heard of thee by the hearing of the ear, |
| + | but now my eye sees thee; |
| + | [6] therefore I despise myself, |
| + | and repent in dust and ashes." |
| + | [7]After the LORD had spoken these words to Job, the LORD said to Eli'phaz the Te'manite: "My wrath is kindled against you and against your two friends; for you have not spoken of me what is right, as my servant Job has. |
| + | [8] Now therefore take seven bulls 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 I will accept his prayer not to deal with you according to your folly; for you have not spoken of me what is right, as my servant Job has." |
| + | [9] So Eli'phaz the Te'manite and Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Na'amathite went and did what the LORD had told them; and the LORD accepted Job's prayer. |
| + | [10]And the LORD restored the fortunes of Job, when he had prayed for his friends; and the LORD gave Job twice as much as he had before. |
| + | [11] Then came to him all his brothers and sisters and all who had known him before, and ate bread with him in his house; and they showed him sympathy and comforted him for all the evil that the LORD had brought upon him; and each of them gave him a piece of money and a ring of gold. |
| + | [12] And the LORD blessed the latter days of Job more than his beginning; and he had fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand she-asses. |
| + | [13] He had also seven sons and three daughters. |
| + | [14] And he called the name of the first Jemi'mah; and the name of the second Kezi'ah; and the name of the third Ker'en-hap'puch. |
| + | [15] And in all the land there were no women so fair as Job's daughters; and their father gave them inheritance among their brothers. |
| + | [16] And after this Job lived a hundred and forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons' sons, four generations. |
| + | [17] And Job died, an old man, and full of days. |
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