Job 41

¹In that day the Lord will take His sharp, great, and mighty sword, and bring judgment on Leviathan the fleeing serpent—Leviathan the coiling serpent—and He will slay the dragon of the sea.

⁸May it be cursed by those who curse the day—those prepared to rouse Leviathan.

¹⁴You crushed the heads of Leviathan; You fed him to the creatures of the desert.

²⁶There the ships pass, and Leviathan, which You formed to frolic there.

²⁹Because your rage and arrogance against Me have reached My ears, I will put My hook in your nose and My bit in your mouth; I will send you back the way you came.’

⁴But I will put hooks in your jaws and cause the fish of your streams to cling to your scales. I will haul you up out of your rivers, and all the fish of your streams will cling to your scales.

⁵I will leave you in the desert, you and all the fish of your streams. You will fall on the open field and will not be taken away or gathered for burial. I have given you as food to the beasts of the earth and the birds of the air.

²⁸Because your rage and arrogance against Me have reached My ears, I will put My hook in your nose and My bit in your mouth; I will send you back the way you came.’

¹In that day the Lord will take His sharp, great, and mighty sword, and bring judgment on Leviathan the fleeing serpent—Leviathan the coiling serpent—and He will slay the dragon of the sea.

²³The poor man pleads for mercy, but the rich man answers harshly.

¹⁰They say to the seers, “Stop seeing visions!” and to the prophets, “Do not prophesy to us the truth! Speak to us pleasant words; prophesy illusions.

¹⁵Through patience a ruler can be persuaded, and a gentle tongue can break a bone.

¹A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.

²¹His speech is smooth as butter, but war is in his heart. His words are softer than oil, yet they are swords unsheathed.

⁶then his master is to bring him before the judges. And he shall take him to the door or doorpost and pierce his ear with an awl. Then he shall serve his master for life.

¹⁷then take an awl and pierce it through his ear into the door, and he will become your servant for life. And treat your maidservant the same way.

³¹Then the servants of Ben-hadad said to him, “Look now, we have heard that the kings of the house of Israel are merciful. Let us go out to the king of Israel with sackcloth around our waists and ropes around our heads. Perhaps he will spare your life.”

³²So with sackcloth around their waists and ropes around their heads, they went to the king of Israel and said, “Your servant Ben-hadad says, ‘Please spare my life.’” And the king answered, “Is he still alive? He is my brother.”

²⁸God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it; rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and every creature that crawls upon the earth.”

⁵You made him a little lower than the angels; You crowned him with glory and honor.

⁶You made him ruler of the works of Your hands; You have placed everything under his feet:

²⁵And while their hearts were merry, they said, “Call for Samson to entertain us.” So they called Samson out of the prison to entertain them. And they stationed him between the pillars.

²⁶Samson said to the servant who held his hand, “Lead me where I can feel the pillars supporting the temple, so I can lean against them.”

¹¹He stops up the sources of the streams to bring what is hidden to light.

¹¹And when the Philistines saw him, they selected thirty men to accompany him.

¹¹And the king of Israel replied, “Tell him: ‘The one putting on his armor should not boast like one taking it off.’”

³¹Or what king on his way to war with another king will not first sit down and consider whether he can engage with ten thousand men the one coming against him with twenty thousand?

³²And if he is unable, he will send a delegation while the other king is still far off, to ask for terms of peace.

⁴But they were terrified and reasoned, “If two kings could not stand against him, how can we?”

¹¹There will be great earthquakes, famines, and pestilences in various places, along with fearful sights and great signs from heaven.

¹¹Then the Lord said to Samuel, “I am about to do something in Israel at which the ears of all who hear it will tingle.

¹⁹As often as it passes through, it will carry you away; it will sweep through morning after morning, by day and by night.” The understanding of this message will bring sheer terror.

³⁴You will be driven mad by the sights you see.

⁴God is wise in heart and mighty in strength. Who has resisted Him and prospered?

⁵“If you have raced with men on foot and they have worn you out, how can you compete with horses? If you stumble in a peaceful land, how will you do in the thickets of the Jordan?

⁹He crouches, he lies down like a lion, like a lioness—who dares to rouse him? Blessed are those who bless you and cursed are those who curse you.”

⁸May it be cursed by those who curse the day—those prepared to rouse Leviathan.

²²Are we trying to provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than He?

⁹Do you have an arm like God’s? Can you thunder with a voice like His?

³⁵“Who has first given to God, that God should repay him?”

¹A Psalm of David. The earth is the Lord’s, and the fullness thereof, the world and all who dwell therein.

¹¹Yours, O Lord, is the greatness and the power and the glory and the splendor and the majesty, for everything in heaven and on earth belongs to You. Yours, O Lord, is the kingdom, and You are exalted as head over all.

¹²Both riches and honor come from You, and You are the ruler over all. In Your hands are power and might to exalt and give strength to all.

⁷If you are righteous, what do you give Him, or what does He receive from your hand?

¹⁴Behold, to the Lord your God belong the heavens, even the highest heavens, and the earth and everything in it.

¹²If I were hungry, I would not tell you, for the world is Mine, and the fullness thereof.

²⁵God made the beasts of the earth according to their kinds, the livestock according to their kinds, and everything that crawls upon the earth according to its kind. And God saw that it was good.

³When we put bits into the mouths of horses to make them obey us, we can guide the whole animal.

²⁸Because your rage and arrogance against Me have reached My ears, I will put My hook in your nose and My bit in your mouth; I will send you back the way you came.’

⁹Do not be like the horse or mule, which have no understanding; they must be controlled with bit and bridle to make them come to you.

⁴when the doors to the street are shut and the sound of the mill fades away, when one rises at the sound of a bird and all the daughters of song grow faint,

⁶O God, shatter their teeth in their mouths; O Lord, tear out the fangs of the lions.

⁷After this, as I watched in my vision in the night, suddenly a fourth beast appeared, and it was terrifying—dreadful and extremely strong—with large iron teeth. It devoured and crushed; then it trampled underfoot whatever was left. It was different from all the beasts before it, and it had ten horns.

⁴My soul is among the lions; I lie down with ravenous beasts—with men whose teeth are spears and arrows, whose tongues are sharp swords.

¹⁰when I fixed its boundaries and set in place its bars and doors,

¹⁴there is a generation whose teeth are swords and whose jaws are knives, devouring the oppressed from the earth and the needy from among men.

²³This is what the Lord says: “Let not the wise man boast in his wisdom, nor the strong man in his strength, nor the wealthy man in his riches.

²And I saw a mighty angel proclaiming in a loud voice, “Who is worthy to break the seals and open the scroll?”

³But no one in heaven or on earth or under the earth was able to open the scroll or look inside it.

⁵Then one of the elders said to me, “Do not weep! Behold, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has triumphed to open the scroll and its seven seals.”

⁹May its morning stars grow dark; may it wait in vain for daylight; may it not see the breaking of dawn.

¹⁴The hair of His head was white like wool, as white as snow, and His eyes were like a blazing fire.

⁸Smoke rose from His nostrils, and consuming fire came from His mouth; glowing coals blazed forth.

¹³Again the word of the Lord came to me, asking, “What do you see?” “I see a boiling pot,” I replied, “and it is tilting toward us from the north.”

¹⁴Then the Lord said to me, “Disaster from the north will be poured out on all who live in the land.

⁸Smoke rose from His nostrils, and consuming fire came from His mouth; glowing coals blazed forth.

³³For Topheth has long been prepared; it has been made ready for the king. Its funeral pyre is deep and wide, with plenty of fire and wood. The breath of the Lord, like a torrent of burning sulfur, sets it ablaze.

⁵Plague went before Him, and fever followed in His steps.

¹²From the brightness of His presence His clouds advanced—hailstones and coals of fire.

¹⁴I will ransom them from the power of Sheol; I will redeem them from Death. Where, O Death, are your plagues? Where, O Sheol, is your sting? Compassion is hidden from My eyes.

¹⁶See the strength of his loins and the power in the muscles of his belly.

⁵⁵“Where, O Death, is your victory? Where, O Death, is your sting?”

⁵⁶The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law.

¹⁹Do you give strength to the horse or adorn his neck with a mane?

⁴For I knew that you are stubborn; your neck is iron and your forehead is bronze.

³O Lord, do not Your eyes look for truth? You struck them, but they felt no pain. You finished them off, but they refused to accept discipline. They have made their faces harder than stone and refused to repent.

¹²They made their hearts like flint and would not listen to the law or to the words that the Lord of Hosts had sent by His Spirit through the earlier prophets. Therefore great anger came from the Lord of Hosts.

⁴Then the Lord hurled a great wind upon the sea, and such a violent storm arose that the ship was in danger of breaking apart.

⁵The sailors were afraid, and each cried out to his own god. And they threw the ship’s cargo into the sea to lighten the load. But Jonah had gone down to the lowest part of the vessel, where he lay down and fell into a deep sleep.

²⁸Then they cried out to the Lord in their trouble, and He brought them out of their distress.

²¹He paws in the valley and rejoices in his strength; he charges into battle.

²²He laughs at fear, frightened of nothing; he does not turn back from the sword.

⁷He scorns the tumult of the city and never hears the shouts of a driver.

¹⁰They scoff at kings and make rulers an object of scorn. They laugh at every fortress and build up siege ramps to seize it.

¹⁴Uzziah supplied the entire army with shields, spears, helmets, armor, bows, and slingstones.

¹⁵Behold, I will make you into a threshing sledge, new and sharp, with many teeth. You will thresh the mountains and crush them, and reduce the hills to chaff.

⁸And at a ripe old age he breathed his last and died, old and contented, and was gathered to his people.

³⁰when the waters become hard as stone and the surface of the deep is frozen?

³¹Gray hair is a crown of glory; it is attained along the path of righteousness.

²⁹The glory of young men is their strength, and gray hair is the splendor of the old.

¹⁶Have you journeyed to the vents of the sea or walked in the trenches of the deep?

²Now the earth was formless and void, and darkness was over the surface of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the surface of the waters.

¹⁹He is the foremost of God’s works; only his Maker can draw the sword against him.

³Speak to him and tell him that this is what the Lord God says: Behold, I am against you, O Pharaoh king of Egypt, O great monster who lies among his rivers, who says, ‘The Nile is mine; I made it myself.’

⁶Therefore pride is their necklace; a garment of violence covers them.

⁸Proud beasts have never trodden it; no lion has ever prowled over it.

¹²By His power He stirred the sea; by His understanding He shattered Rahab.

²But Pharaoh replied, “Who is the Lord that I should obey His voice and let Israel go? I do not know the Lord, and I will not let Israel go.”

¹Woe to the majestic crown of Ephraim’s drunkards, to the fading flower of his glorious splendor, set on the summit above the fertile valley, the pride of those overcome by wine.