| 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." |
| 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. |
