gives me life.
033:005 If you can, answer me. Set your words in order before me,
and stand forth.
033:006 Behold, I am toward God even as you are. I am also formed
out of the clay.
033:007 Behold, my terror shall not make you afraid, neither shall
my pressure be heavy on you.
033:008 "Surely you have spoken in my hearing, I have heard the voice
of your words, saying,
033:009 'I am clean, without disobedience. I am innocent, neither is
there iniquity in me.
033:010 Behold, he finds occasions against me. He counts me for his enemy.
033:011 He puts my feet in the stocks. He marks all my paths.'
033:012 "Behold, I will answer you. In this you are not just,
for God is greater than man.
033:013 Why do you strive against him, because he doesn't give account
of any of his matters?
033:014 For God speaks once, yes twice, though man pays no attention.
033:015 In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falls
on men, in slumbering on the bed;
033:016 Then he opens the ears of men, and seals their instruction,
033:017 That he may withdraw man from his purpose, and hide pride from man.
033:018 He keeps back his soul from the pit, and his life from perishing
by the sword.
033:019 He is chastened also with pain on his bed, with continual
strife in his bones;
033:020 So that his life abhors bread, and his soul dainty food.
033:021 His flesh is so consumed away, that it can't be seen.
His bones that were not seen stick out.
033:022 Yes, his soul draws near to the pit, and his life to the destroyers.
033:023 "If there is beside him an angel, an interpreter, one among
a thousand, to show to man what is right for him;
033:024 then God is gracious to him, and says, 'Deliver him from going
down to the pit, I have found a ransom.'
033:025 His flesh shall be fresher than a child's. He returns to the days
of his youth.
033:026 He prays to God, and he is favorable to him, so that he sees
his face with joy. He restores to man his righteousness.
033:027 He sings before men, and says, 'I have sinned, and perverted
that which was right, and it didn't profit me.
033:028 He has redeemed my soul from going into the pit.
My life shall see the light.'
033:029 "Behold, God works all these things, twice, yes three times,
with a man,
033:030 to bring back his soul from the pit, that he may be enlightened
with the light of the living.
033:031 Mark well, Job, and listen to me. Hold your peace,
and I will speak.
033:032 If you have anything to say, answer me. Speak, for I desire
to justify you.
033:033 If not, listen to me. Hold your peace, and I will teach you wisdom."
034:001 Moreover Elihu answered,
034:002 "Hear my words, you wise men. Give ear to me,
you who have knowledge.
034:003 For the ear tries words, as the palate tastes food.
034:004 Let us choose for us that which is right. Let us know among
ourselves what is good.
034:005 For Job has said, 'I am righteous, God has taken away my right:
034:006 Notwithstanding my right I am considered a liar.
My wound is incurable, though I am without disobedience.'
034:007 What man is like Job, who drinks scorn like water,
034:008 Who goes in company with the workers of iniquity, and walks
with wicked men?
034:009 For he has said, 'It profits a man nothing that he should
delight himself with God.'
034:010 "Therefore listen to me, you men of understanding: far be it
from God, that he should do wickedness, from the Almighty,
that he should commit iniquity.
034:011 For the work of a man he will render to him, and cause every
man to find according to his ways.
034:012 Yes surely, God will not do wickedly, neither will the
Almighty pervert justice.
034:013 Who gave him a charge over the earth? or who has appointed
him over the whole world?
034:014 If he set his heart on himself, If he gathered to himself
his spirit and his breath,
034:015 all flesh would perish together, and man would turn again to dust.
034:016 "If now you have understanding, hear this. Listen to the voice
of my words.
034:017 Shall even one who hates justice govern? Will you condemn
him who is righteous and mighty?--
034:018 Who says to a king, 'Vile!' or to nobles, 'Wicked!'?
034:019 Who doesn't respect the persons of princes, nor regards the rich
more than the poor; for they all are the work of his hands.
034:020 In a moment they die, even at midnight. The people are shaken
and pass away. The mighty are taken away without a hand.
034:021 "For his eyes are on the ways of a man. He sees all his goings.
034:022 There is no darkness, nor thick gloom, where the workers
of iniquity may hide themselves.
034:023 For he doesn't need to consider a man further, that he should
go before God in judgment.
034:024 He breaks in pieces mighty men in ways past finding out,
and sets others in their place.
034:025 Therefore he takes knowledge of their works. He overturns
them in the night, so that they are destroyed.
034:026 He strikes them as wicked men in the open sight of others;
034:027 because they turned aside from following him, and wouldn't
pay attention to any of his ways,
034:028 so that they caused the cry of the poor to come to him.
He heard the cry of the afflicted.
034:029 When he gives quietness, who then can condemn? When he hides
his face, who then can see him? Alike whether to a nation,
or to a man,
034:030 that the godless man may not reign, that there be no one
to ensnare the people.
034:031 "For has any said to God, 'I am guilty, but I will not
offend any more.
034:032 Teach me that which I don't see. If I have done iniquity,
I will do it no more'?
034:033 Shall his recompense be as you desire, that you refuse it?
For you must choose, and not I. Therefore speak what you know.
034:034 Men of understanding will tell me, yes, every wise man
who hears me:
034:035 'Job speaks without knowledge. His words are without wisdom.'
034:036 I wish that Job were tried to the end, because of his answering
like wicked men.
034:037 For he adds rebellion to his sin. He claps his hands among us,
and multiplies his words against God."
035:001 Moreover Elihu answered,
035:002 "Do you think this to be your right, or do you say,
'My righteousness is more than God's,'
035:003 That you ask, 'What advantage will it be to you?
What profit shall I have, more than if I had sinned?'
035:004 I will answer you, and your companions with you.
035:005 Look to the heavens, and see. See the skies, which are
higher than you.
035:006 If you have sinned, what effect do you have against him?
If your transgressions are multiplied, what do you do to him?
035:007 If you are righteous, what do you give him? Or what does
he receive from your hand?
035:008 Your wickedness may hurt a man as you are, and your righteousness
may profit a son of man.
035:009 "By reason of the multitude of oppressions they cry out.
They cry for help by reason of the arm of the mighty.
035:010 But none says, 'Where is God my Maker, who gives songs
in the night,
035:011 who teaches us more than the animals of the earth, and makes
us wiser than the birds of the sky?'
035:012 There they cry, but none gives answer, because of the pride
of evil men.
035:013 Surely God will not hear an empty cry, neither will the
Almighty regard it.
035:014 How much less when you say you don't see him. The cause
is before him, and you wait for him!
035:015 But now, because he has not visited in his anger, neither does
he greatly regard arrogance.
035:016 Therefore Job opens his mouth with empty talk, and he multiplies
words without knowledge."
036:001 Elihu also continued, and said,
036:002 "Bear with me a little, and I will show you; for I still
have something to say on God's behalf.
036:003 I will get my knowledge from afar, and will ascribe righteousness
to my Maker.
036:004 For truly my words are not false. One who is perfect in knowledge
is with you.
036:005 "Behold, God is mighty, and doesn't despise anyone.
He is mighty in strength of understanding.
036:006 He doesn't preserve the life of the wicked, but gives to
the afflicted their right.
036:007 He doesn't withdraw his eyes from the righteous, but with kings
on the throne, he sets them forever, and they are exalted.
036:008 If they are bound in fetters, and are taken in the
cords of afflictions,
036:009 then he shows them their work, and their transgressions,
that they have behaved themselves proudly.
036:010 He also opens their ears to instruction, and commands that they
return from iniquity.
036:011 If they listen and serve him, they shall spend their days
in prosperity, and their years in pleasures.
036:012 But if they don't listen, they shall perish by the sword;
they shall die without knowledge.
036:013 "But those who are godless in heart lay up anger.
They don't cry for help when he binds them.
036:014 They die in youth. Their life perishes among the unclean.
036:015 He delivers the afflicted by their affliction, and opens
their ear in oppression.
036:016 Yes, he would have allured you out of distress, into a broad place,
where there is no restriction. That which is set on your table
would be full of fatness.
036:017 "But you are full of the judgment of the wicked.
Judgment and justice take hold of you.
036:018 Don't let riches entice you to wrath, neither let the great
size of a bribe turn you aside.
036:019 Would your wealth sustain you in distress, or all the might
of your strength?
036:020 Don't desire the night, when people are cut off in their place.
036:021 Take heed, don't regard iniquity; for you have chosen this
rather than affliction.
036:022 Behold, God is exalted in his power. Who is a teacher like him?
036:023 Who has prescribed his way for him? Or who can say,
'You have committed unrighteousness?'
036:024 "Remember that you magnify his work, whereof men have sung.
036:025 All men have looked thereon. Man sees it afar off.
036:026 Behold, God is great, and we don't know him. The number
of his years is unsearchable.
036:027 For he draws up the drops of water, which distill in rain
from his vapor,
036:028 Which the skies pour down and which drop on man abundantly.
036:029 Yes, can any understand the spreading of the clouds,
and the thunderings of his pavilion?
036:030 Behold, he spreads his light around him. He covers the bottom
of the sea.
036:031 For by these he judges the people. He gives food in abundance.
036:032 He covers his hands with the lightning, and commands it
to strike the mark.
036:033 Its noise tells about him, and the livestock also concerning
the storm that comes up.
037:001 "Yes, at this my heart trembles, and is moved out of its place.
037:002 Hear, oh, hear the noise of his voice, the sound that goes
out of his mouth.
037:003 He sends it forth under the whole sky, and his lightning
to the ends of the earth.
037:004 After it a voice roars. He thunders with the voice of his majesty.
He doesn't hold back anything when his voice is heard.
037:005 God thunders marvelously with his voice. He does great things,
which we can't comprehend.
037:006 For he says to the snow, 'Fall on the earth;' likewise to
the shower of rain, and to the showers of his mighty rain.
037:007 He seals up the hand of every man, that all men whom he has
made may know it.
037:008 Then the animals take cover, and remain in their dens.
037:009 Out of its chamber comes the storm, and cold out of the north.
037:010 By the breath of God, ice is given, and the breadth of the
waters is frozen.
037:011 Yes, he loads the thick cloud with moisture. He spreads abroad
the cloud of his lightning.
037:012 It is turned round about by his guidance, that they may do
whatever he commands them on the surface of the habitable world,
037:013 Whether it is for correction, or for his land, or for loving kindness,
that he causes it to come.
037:014 "Listen to this, Job. Stand still, and consider the wondrous
works of God.
037:015 Do you know how God controls them, and causes the lightning
of his cloud to shine?
037:016 Do you know the workings of the clouds, the wondrous works
of him who is perfect in knowledge?
037:017 You whose clothing is warm, when the earth is still by reason
of the south wind?
037:018 Can you, with him, spread out the sky, which is strong as a
cast metal mirror?
037:019 Teach us what we shall tell him, for we can't make our case
by reason of darkness.
037:020 Shall it be told him that I would speak? Or should a man wish
that he were swallowed up?
037:021 Now men don't see the light which is bright in the skies,
but the wind passes, and clears them.
037:022 Out of the north comes golden splendor. With God is awesome majesty.
037:023 We can't reach the Almighty. He is exalted in power.
In justice and great righteousness, he will not oppress.
037:024 Therefore men revere him. He doesn't regard any who are
wise of heart."
038:001 Then Yahweh answered Job out of the whirlwind,
038:002 "Who is this who darkens counsel by words without knowledge?
038:003 Brace yourself like a man, for I will question you,
then you answer me!
038:004 "Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth?
Declare, if you have understanding.
038:005 Who determined the measures of it, if you know?
Or who stretched the line on it?
038:006 Whereupon were the foundations of it fastened?
Or who laid its cornerstone,
038:007 when the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God
shouted for joy?
038:008 "Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it broke forth
from the womb,
038:009 when I made clouds its garment, and wrapped it in thick darkness,
038:010 marked out for it my bound, set bars and doors,
038:011 and said, 'Here you may come, but no further. Here shall
your proud waves be stayed?'
038:012 "Have you commanded the morning in your days, and caused
the dawn to know its place;
038:013 that it might take hold of the ends of the earth, and shake
the wicked out of it?
038:014 It is changed as clay under the seal, and stands forth
as a garment.
038:015 From the wicked, their light is withheld. The high arm is broken.
038:016 "Have you entered into the springs of the sea? Or have you
walked in the recesses of the deep?
038:017 Have the gates of death been revealed to you? Or have you
seen the gates of the shadow of death?
038:018 Have you comprehended the earth in its breadth? Declare, if you
know it all.
038:019 "What is the way to the dwelling of light? As for darkness,
where is its place,
038:020 that you should take it to its bound, that you should discern
the paths to its house?
038:021 Surely you know, for you were born then, and the number of your
days is great!
038:022 Have you entered the treasuries of the snow, or have you seen
the treasures of the hail,
038:023 which I have reserved against the time of trouble, against the day
of battle and war?
038:024 By what way is the lightning distributed, or the east wind
scattered on the earth?
038:025 Who has cut a channel for the flood water, or the path
for the thunderstorm;
038:026 To cause it to rain on a land where no man is; on the wilderness,
in which there is no man;
038:027 to satisfy the waste and desolate ground, to cause the tender
grass to spring forth?
038:028 Does the rain have a father? Or who fathers the drops of dew?
038:029 Out of whose womb came the ice? The gray frost of the sky,
who has given birth to it?
038:030 The waters become hard like stone, when the surface of the
deep is frozen.
038:031 "Can you bind the cluster of the Pleiades, or loosen
the cords of Orion?
038:032 Can you lead forth the constellations in their season?
Or can you guide the Bear with her cubs?
038:033 Do you know the laws of the heavens? Can you establish
the dominion of it over the earth?
038:034 "Can you lift up your voice to the clouds, That abundance
of waters may cover you?
038:035 Can you send forth lightnings, that they may go?
Do they report to you, 'Here we are?'
038:036 Who has put wisdom in the inward parts? Or who has given
understanding to the mind?
038:037 Who can number the clouds by wisdom? Or who can pour out
the bottles of the sky,
038:038 when the dust runs into a mass, and the clods of
earth stick together?
038:039 "Can you hunt the prey for the lioness, or satisfy the appetite
of the young lions,
038:040 when they crouch in their dens, and lie in wait in the thicket?
038:041 Who provides for the raven his prey, when his young ones cry
to God, and wander for lack of food?
039:001 "Do you know the time when the mountain goats give birth?
Do you watch when the doe bears fawns?
039:002 Can you number the months that they fulfill? Or do you know
the time when they give birth?
039:003 They bow themselves, they bring forth their young, they end
their labor pains.
039:004 Their young ones become strong. They grow up in the open field.
They go forth, and don't return again.
039:005 "Who has set the wild donkey free? Or who has loosened
the bonds of the swift donkey,
039:006 Whose home I have made the wilderness, and the salt land
his dwelling place?
039:007 He scorns the tumult of the city, neither does he hear
the shouting of the driver.
039:008 The range of the mountains is his pasture, He searches after
every green thing.
039:009 "Will the wild ox be content to serve you? Or will he stay
by your feeding trough?
039:010 Can you hold the wild ox in the furrow with his harness?
Or will he till the valleys after you?
039:011 Will you trust him, because his strength is great?
Or will you leave to him your labor?
039:012 Will you confide in him, that he will bring home your seed,
and gather the grain of your threshing floor?
039:013 "The wings of the ostrich wave proudly; but are they the feathers
and plumage of love?
039:014 For she leaves her eggs on the earth, warms them in the dust,
039:015 and forgets that the foot may crush them, or that the wild
animal may trample them.
039:016 She deals harshly with her young ones, as if they were not hers.
Though her labor is in vain, she is without fear,
039:017 because God has deprived her of wisdom, neither has he imparted
to her understanding.
039:018 When she lifts up herself on high, she scorns the horse
and his rider.
039:019 "Have you given the horse might? Have you clothed his neck
with a quivering mane?
039:020 Have you made him to leap as a locust? The glory of his
snorting is awesome.
039:021 He paws in the valley, and rejoices in his strength.
He goes out to meet the armed men.
039:022 He mocks at fear, and is not dismayed, neither does he turn
back from the sword.
039:023 The quiver rattles against him, the flashing spear and the javelin.
039:024 He eats up the ground with fierceness and rage, neither does
he stand still at the sound of the trumpet.
039:025 As often as the trumpet sounds he snorts, 'Aha!' He smells
the battle afar off, the thunder of the captains,
and the shouting.
039:026 "Is it by your wisdom that the hawk soars, and stretches her
wings toward the south?
039:027 Is it at your command that the eagle mounts up, and makes
his nest on high?
039:028 On the cliff he dwells, and makes his home, on the point
of the cliff, and the stronghold.
039:029 From there he spies out the prey. His eyes see it afar off.
039:030 His young ones also suck up blood. Where the slain are,
there he is."
040:001 Moreover Yahweh answered Job,
040:002 "Shall he who argues contend with the Almighty? He who argues
with God, let him answer it."
040:003 Then Job answered Yahweh,
040:004 "Behold, I am of small account. What shall I answer you?
I lay my hand on my mouth.
040:005 I have spoken once, and I will not answer; Yes, twice, but I
will proceed no further."
040:006 Then Yahweh answered Job out of the whirlwind,
040:007 "Now brace yourself like a man. I will question you, and you
will answer me.
040:008 Will you even annul my judgment? Will you condemn me,
that you may be justified?
040:009 Or do you have an arm like God? Can you thunder with a
voice like him?
040:010 "Now deck yourself with excellency and dignity.
Array yourself with honor and majesty.
040:011 Pour out the fury of your anger. Look at everyone who is proud,
and bring him low.
040:012 Look at everyone who is proud, and humble him. Crush the wicked
in their place.
040:013 Hide them in the dust together. Bind their faces in
the hidden place.
040:014 Then I will also admit to you that your own right hand
can save you.
040:015 "See now, behemoth, which I made as well as you.
He eats grass as an ox.
040:016 Look now, his strength is in his thighs. His force is in
the muscles of his belly.
040:017 He moves his tail like a cedar. The sinews of his thighs
are knit together.
040:018 His bones are like tubes of brass. His limbs are like
bars of iron.
040:019 He is the chief of the ways of God. He who made him gives
him his sword.
040:020 Surely the mountains produce food for him, where all the animals
of the field play.
040:021 He lies under the lotus trees, in the covert of the reed,
and the marsh.
040:022 The lotuses cover him with their shade. The willows of
the brook surround him.
040:023 Behold, if a river overflows, he doesn't tremble.
He is confident, though the Jordan swells even to his mouth.
040:024 Shall any take him when he is on the watch, or pierce through
his nose with a snare?
041:001 "Can you draw out Leviathan{Leviathan is a name for a crocodile
or similar creature.} with a fishhook, or press down his tongue
with a cord?
041:002 Can you put a rope into his nose, or pierce his jaw through
with a hook?
041:003 Will he make many petitions to you, or will he speak soft
words to you?
041:004 Will he make a covenant with you, that you should take him
for a servant forever?
041:005 Will you play with him as with a bird? Or will you bind him
for your girls?
041:006 Will traders barter for him? Will they part him among the merchants?
041:007 Can you fill his skin with barbed irons, or his head
with fish spears?
041:008 Lay your hand on him. Remember the battle, and do so no more.
041:009 Behold, the hope of him is in vain. Won't one be cast down
even at the sight of him?
041:010 None is so fierce that he dare stir him up. Who then is
he who can stand before me?
041:011 Who has first given to me, that I should repay him?
Everything under the heavens is mine.
041:012 "I will not keep silence concerning his limbs, nor his
mighty strength, nor his goodly frame.
041:013 Who can strip off his outer garment? Who shall come
within his jaws?
041:014 Who can open the doors of his face? Around his teeth is terror.
041:015 Strong scales are his pride, shut up together with a close seal.
041:016 One is so near to another, that no air can come between them.
041:017 They are joined one to another. They stick together,
so that they can't be pulled apart.
041:018 His sneezing flashes out light. His eyes are like the eyelids
of the morning.
041:019 Out of his mouth go burning torches. Sparks of fire leap forth.
041:020 Out of his nostrils a smoke goes, as of a boiling pot over
a fire of reeds.
041:021 His breath kindles coals. A flame goes forth from his mouth.
041:022 There is strength in his neck. Terror dances before him.
041:023 The flakes of his flesh are joined together. They are firm on him.
They can't be moved.
041:024 His heart is as firm as a stone, yes, firm as the lower millstone.
041:025 When he raises himself up, the mighty are afraid.
They retreat before his thrashing.
041:026 If one attacks him with the sword, it can't prevail;
nor the spear, the dart, nor the pointed shaft.
041:027 He counts iron as straw; and brass as rotten wood.
041:028 The arrow can't make him flee. Sling stones are like chaff to him.
041:029 Clubs are counted as stubble. He laughs at the rushing
of the javelin.
041:030 His undersides are like sharp potsherds, leaving a trail
in the mud like a threshing sledge.
041:031 He makes the deep to boil like a pot. He makes the sea
like a pot of ointment.
041:032 He makes a path shine after him. One would think the deep
had white hair.
041:033 On earth there is not his equal, that is made without fear.
041:034 He sees everything that is high. He is king over all
the sons of pride."
042:001 Then Job answered Yahweh,
042:002 "I know that you can do all things, and that no purpose of yours
can be restrained.
042:003 You asked, 'Who is this who hides counsel without knowledge?'
therefore I have uttered that which I did not understand,
things too wonderful for me, which I didn't know.
042:004 You said, 'Listen, now, and I will speak; I will question you,
and you will answer me.'
042:005 I had heard of you by the hearing of the ear, but now my
eye sees you.
042:006 Therefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes."