1 10 None is so fierce that he dare stir him up, Who then is he, that can stand before me? 11 Who hath done me a favour, that I should repay him? Whatever is under the whole heaven is mine. 12 I will not be silent concerning his limbs, And his strength, and the beauty of his armour. 13 Who can remove his garment? Who will approach his jaws? 14 Who will open the doors of his face? The rows of his teeth are terrible. 15 His pride is in his strong bucklers, Which are united with each other, as with a close seal. 16 One is fitted to another, So that no air can come between them. 17 They cleave fast to each other, They are compact, and cannot be separated. 18 When he sneezeth, the light sparkleth, And his eyes are like the eyelids of the morning. 19 Out of his mouth go firebrands, And sparks of fire leap forth. 20 From his nostrils issueth smoke, as from a seething pot, or caldron. 21 His breath kindleth coals; And a flame issueth from his mouth. 22 In his neck dwelleth Strength, And Terror danceth before him. 23 The muscles of his flesh are compacted together; They are firm upon him, and cannot be moved. 24 His heart is as hard as a stone; 25 Yea, as hard as the nether-millstone. When he riseth up, the mighty are afraid; 26 The sword of him that assaileth him cannot stand; The spear, the dart, nor the javelin. 27 He regardeth iron as straw, And brass as rotten wood. 28 The arrow cannot make him flee; 29 Clubs are accounted by him as straw; 30 Under him are sharp potsherds; He spreadeth out harrows upon the mire. 31 He maketh the deep to boil like a caldron ; He maketh the sea like a pot of ointment. 32 Behind him he leaveth a shining path; One would think the deep to be hoary. 33 Upon the earth there is not his like; He is made without fear. 34 He despiseth every high thing; 1 2 CHAP. XLII. Then Job answered Jehovah, and said: I know that thou canst do every thing, And that no purpose of thine can be hindered. 3 Who is he, that darkeneth thy counsels by words without knowledge? Thus have I uttered what I understood not; Things too wonderful for me, which I knew not. 4 Hear thou then, I beseech thee, and I will speak; I will ask thee, and do thou instruct me. 5 I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear, But now mine eye seeth thee 6 Wherefore I abhor myself, And repent in dust and ashes. ; And when Jehovah had spoken these words unto Job, he said to Eliphaz the Temanite, "My wrath is kindled against thee, and against thy two friends; for ye have not spoken 8 concerning me that which is right, as hath my servant Job. Take, therefore, seven bullocks, and seven rams, and go to my servant Job, and offer for yourselves a burnt-offering, and my servant Job shall pray for you; (for to him will I have regard ;) lest I deal with you according to your folly. For ye have not spoken concerning me that which is right, as hath my servant Job." 9 So Eliphaz, the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite, went and did as Jehovah commanded 10 them; and Jehovah had regard to the prayer of Job. And Jehovah restored the prosperity of Job, when he had prayed for his friends, and Jehovah gave him twice as much as he 11 had before. Then came unto him all his brethren, and all his sisters, and all his former acquaintances, and ate bread with him in his house; and condoled with him, and com forted him over all the evil, which Jehovah had brought upon him; and every one gave him a piece of money, and every one an earring of gold. 12 Thus Jehovah blessed the latter end of Job more than the beginning; for 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. And he called 14 the name of the first Jemima, of the second, Kezia, and of 15 the third, Kerenhappuch. And in all the land were no women found so beautiful as the daughters of Job; and their father gave them an inheritance among their brethren16 And Job lived after this a hundred and forty years, and saw 17 his sons, and his sons' sons, even four generations. Then Job died, being old, and satisfied with days. END. |