[40:2] "Shall he who argues contend with the Almighty? He who argues with God, let him answer it."
[40:3] Then Job answered Yahweh,
[40:4] "Behold, I am of small account. What shall I answer you? I lay my hand on my mouth. [40:5] I have spoken once, and I will not answer; Yes, twice, but I will proceed no further."
[40:6] Then Yahweh answered Job out of the whirlwind,
[40:7] "Now brace yourself like a man. I will question you, and you will answer me. [40:8] Will you even annul my judgment? Will you condemn me, that you may be justified? [40:9] Or do you have an arm like God? Can you thunder with a voice like him? [40:10] "Now deck yourself with excellency and dignity. Array yourself with honor and majesty. [40:11] Pour out the fury of your anger. Look at everyone who is proud, and bring him low. [40:12] Look at everyone who is proud, and humble him. Crush the wicked in their place. [40:13] Hide them in the dust together. Bind their faces in the hidden place. [40:14] Then I will also admit to you that your own right hand can save you. [40:15] "See now, behemoth, which I made as well as you. He eats grass as an ox. [40:16] Look now, his strength is in his thighs. His force is in the muscles of his belly. [40:17] He moves his tail like a cedar. The sinews of his thighs are knit together. [40:18] His bones are like tubes of brass. His limbs are like bars of iron. [40:19] He is the chief of the ways of God. He who made him gives him his sword. [40:20] Surely the mountains produce food for him, where all the animals of the field play. [40:21] He lies under the lotus trees, in the covert of the reed, and the marsh. [40:22] The lotuses cover him with their shade. The willows of the brook surround him. [40:23] Behold, if a river overflows, he doesn't tremble. He is confident, though the Jordan swells even to his mouth. [40:24] Shall any take him when he is on the watch, or pierce through his nose with a snare?
[41:1] "Can you draw out [Leviathan] with a fishhook, or press down his tongue with a cord? [41:2] Can you put a rope into his nose, or pierce his jaw through with a hook? [41:3] Will he make many petitions to you, or will he speak soft words to you? [41:4] Will he make a covenant with you, that you should take him for a servant forever? [41:5] Will you play with him as with a bird? Or will you bind him for your girls? [41:6] Will traders barter for him? Will they part him among the merchants? [41:7] Can you fill his skin with barbed irons, or his head with fish spears? [41:8] Lay your hand on him. Remember the battle, and do so no more. [41:9] Behold, the hope of him is in vain. Won't one be cast down even at the sight of him? [41:10] None is so fierce that he dare stir him up. Who then is he who can stand before me? [41:11] Who has first given to me, that I should repay him? Everything under the heavens is mine. [41:12] "I will not keep silence concerning his limbs, nor his mighty strength, nor his goodly frame. [41:13] Who can strip off his outer garment? Who shall come within his jaws? [41:14] Who can open the doors of his face? Around his teeth is terror. [41:15] Strong scales are his pride, shut up together with a close seal. [41:16] One is so near to another, that no air can come between them. [41:17] They are joined one to another. They stick together, so that they can't be pulled apart. [41:18] His sneezing flashes out light. His eyes are like the eyelids of the morning. [41:19] Out of his mouth go burning torches. Sparks of fire leap forth. [41:20] Out of his nostrils a smoke goes, as of a boiling pot over a fire of reeds. [41:21] His breath kindles coals. A flame goes forth from his mouth. [41:22] There is strength in his neck. Terror dances before him. [41:23] The flakes of his flesh are joined together. They are firm on him. They can't be moved. [41:24] His heart is as firm as a stone, yes, firm as the lower millstone. [41:25] When he raises himself up, the mighty are afraid. They retreat before his thrashing. [41:26] If one attacks him with the sword, it can't prevail; nor the spear, the dart, nor the pointed shaft. [41:27] He counts iron as straw; and brass as rotten wood. [41:28] The arrow can't make him flee. Sling stones are like chaff to him. [41:29] Clubs are counted as stubble. He laughs at the rushing of the javelin. [41:30] His undersides are like sharp potsherds, leaving a trail in the mud like a threshing sledge. [41:31] He makes the deep to boil like a pot. He makes the sea like a pot of ointment. [41:32] He makes a path shine after him. One would think the deep had white hair. [41:33] On earth there is not his equal, that is made without fear. [41:34] He sees everything that is high. He is king over all the sons of pride."
[42:1] Then Job answered Yahweh,
[42:2] "I know that you can do all things, and that no purpose of yours can be restrained. [42:3] 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. [42:4] You said, 'Listen, now, and I will speak; I will question you, and you will answer me.' [42:5] I had heard of you by the hearing of the ear, but now my eye sees you. [42:6] Therefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes."
[42:7] It was so, that after Yahweh had spoken these words to Job, Yahweh said to Eliphaz the Temanite, "My wrath is kindled against you, and against your two friends; for you have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job has. [42:8] Now therefore, take to yourselves 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 him, that I not deal with you according to your folly. For you have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job has."
[42:9] So Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite went, and did what Yahweh commanded them, and Yahweh accepted Job.