God reasoneth with Job.

B. C.

20 That thou shouldest take it

|| Or, at.

q Ps. 135. 7.

r Ex. 9. 18. Josh. 10. 11. Is. 30. 30.

know the paths to the house thereof? 21 Knowest thou it, because thou wast then born? or because the number of thy days is great?

22 Hast thou entered into the treasures of the snow? or hast thou seen the treasures of the hail,

23 Which I have reserved against the time of trouble, against the day Ez. 13. 11, 13. of battle and war?

Rev. 16. 21.

s ch. 28. 26.

t Ps. 107. 35.

u Ps. 147. 8. Jer. 14. 22.

I Ps. 147. 16. y ch. 37. 10. z ch. 9. 9. Am. 5. 8. + Heb. is taken.

|| Or, The seven stars. Heb. Cimah.

+ Heb. Cecil. Or, The twelve signs. + Heb. guide them.

a Jer. 31. 35.

+ Heb. Behold us?

b ch. 32. 8.

Ps. 51. 6.
Ecc. 2. 26.

+ Heb. who can cause to lie down. || Or, When the dust is turned into mire.

24 By what way is the light parted, which scattereth the east wind upon the earth?

25 Who hath divided a watercourse for the overflowing of waters, or a way for the lightning of thunder; 26 To cause it to rain on the earth, where no man is; on the wilderness, wherein there is no man;

27 To satisfy the desolate and waste ground; and to cause the bud of the tender herb to spring forth?

28 Hath the rain a father? or who hath begotten the drops of dew?

29 Out of whose womb came the ice? and the hoary frost of heaven, who hath gendered it?

30 The waters are hid as with a stone, and the face of the deep is frozen. 31 Canst thou bind the sweet influences of Pleiades, or loose the bands of Orion?

32 Canst thou bring forth Mazzaroth in his season? or canst thou + guide Arcturus with his sons?

a

33 Knowest thou the ordinances of heaven? canst thou set the dominion thereof in the earth?

34 Canst thou lift up thy voice to the clouds, that abundance of waters may cover thee?

35 Canst thou send lightnings, that they may go, and say unto thee, + Here we are?

36 b Who hath put wisdom in the inward parts? or who hath given understanding to the heart?

37 Who can number the clouds in wisdom? or + who can stay the bottles of heaven,

38 When the dust groweth into hardness, and the clods cleave fast together? 39 Wilt thou hunt the prey for the lion? or fill the appetite of the Heb. the life. young lions,

B. C.

the wild goats of the rock bring about 1520. forth? or canst thou mark when the hinds do calve?

2 Canst thou number the months that they fulfil? or knowest thou the time when they bring forth?

3 They bow themselves, they bring forth their young ones, they cast out their sorrows.

4 Their young ones are in good liking, they grow up with corn; they go forth, and return not unto them. 5 Who hath sent out the wild ass free? or who hath loosed the bands of the wild ass?

6 Whose house I have made the wilderness, and the barren land his dwellings.

7 He scorneth the multitude of the city, neither regardeth he the crying of the driver.

8 The range of the mountains is his pasture, and he searcheth after every green thing.

16 She is hardened against her & Lam. 4.3. young ones, as though they were not hers: her labour is in vain without fear;

17 Because God hath deprived her of wisdom, neither hath he impart- • ch. 35. 11. ed to her understanding.

18 What time she lifteth up herself on high, she scorneth the horse and his rider.

19 Hast thou given the horse strength? hast thou clothed his neck with thunder?

20 Canst thou make him afraid as a grasshopper? the glory of his nostrils is terrible.

+ Heb. terror

dig.

21 He paweth in the valley, and Or, His feet rejoiceth in his strength: 'he goeth on to meet the armed men.

22 He mocketh at fear, and is not affrighted; neither turneth he back from the sword.

+ Heb. the armour.

! Jer. 8. 6.

MOREOVER the LORD answered

Job, and said,

God's power and majesty.

16 Lo now, his strength is in his loins, and his force is in the navel of his belly.

17 He moveth his tail like a cedar: the sinews of his stones are wrapped together.

18 His bones are as strong pieces of brass; his bones are like bars of iron. 19 He is the chief of the ways of God: he that made him can make his sword to approach unto him.

B. C. about 1520.

Or, He setteth up.

20 Surely the mountains 'bring him 1 Ps. 104. 14. forth food, where all the beasts of the field play.

21 He lieth under the shady trees, in the covert of the reed, and fens.

22 The shady trees cover him with their shadow; the willows of the brook compass him about.

presseth.

23 Behold, the drinketh up a river, Heb. he opand hasteth not: he trusteth that he can draw up Jordan into his mouth. 24 He taketh it with his eyes: his Or, will any nose pierceth through snares.

CHAPTER XLI.

CANST

4 b Behold, I am vile; what shall I answer thee? I will lay mine hand upon my mouth.

5 Once have I spoken; but I will not answer: yea, twice; but I will proceed no further.

6 Then answered the LORD unto Job out of the whirlwind, and said, 7 Gird up thy loins now like a man: I will demand of thee, and declare thou unto me.

8 Wilt thou also disannul my judgment? wilt thou condemn me, that thou mayest be righteous?

9 Hast thou an arm like God? or canst thou thunder with a voice like him? 10 Deck thyself now with majesty and excellency; and array thyself with glory and beauty.

11 Cast abroad the rage of thy wrath and behold every one that is proud, and abase him.

12 Look on every one that is proud, and bring him low; and tread down the wicked in their place.

13 Hide them in the dust together; and bind their faces in secret.

14 Then will I also confess unto thee that thine own right hand can save thee.

15 Behold now behemoth, which I made with thee; he eateth grass as

an ox.

b

3 Will he make many supplications unto thee? will he speak soft words unto thee?

4 Will he make a covenant with thee? wilt thou take him for a servant for ever?

5 Wilt thou play with him as with a bird? or wilt thou bind him for thy maidens?

6 Shall the companions make a banquet of him? shall they part him among the merchants?

7 Canst thou fill his skin with barbed irons? or his head with fish spears? 8 Lay thine hand upon him, remember the battle, do no more.

9 Behold, the hope of him is in vain : shall not one be cast down even at the sight of him?

10 None is so fierce that dare stir him up; who then is able to stand before me?

take him in his sight, or, bore his nose with a gin? ch. 41. 1, 2.

That is, a

whale, or, a whirlpool.

+ Heb. which thou drownest?

a Ps. 104. 26.
Is. 27. 1.
b Is. 37. 29.

Job's deep humiliation.

B. C.

15 His scales are his pride, shut about 1520. up together as with a close seal.

+ Heb. strong pieces of shields.

+ Heb. sorrow rejoiceth. + Heb. The fallings.

Or, breastplate.

16 One is so near to another, that no air can come between them.

17 They are joined one to another, they stick together, that they cannot be sundered.

18 By his neesings a light doth shine, and his eyes are like the eyelids of the morning.

19 Out of his mouth go burning lamps, and sparks of fire leap out. 20 Out of his nostrils goeth smoke, as out of a seething pot or caldron. 21 His breath kindleth coals, and a flame goeth out of his mouth.

22 In his neck remaineth strength, and sorrow is turned into joy before him.

23 The flakes of his flesh are joined together they are firm in themselves; they cannot be moved.

24 His heart is as firm as a stone; yea, as hard as a piece of the nether millstone.

25 When he raiseth up himself, the mighty are afraid by reason of breakings they purify themselves.

26 The sword of him that layeth at him cannot hold: the spear, the dart, nor the habergeon.

27 He esteemeth iron as straw, and brass as rotten wood.

28 The arrow cannot make him flee sling stones are turned with him into stubble.

29 Darts are counted as stubble: he laugheth at the shaking of a spear. 30 Sharp stones are under him: he pieces of pot spreadeth sharp pointed things upon

+ Heb. Sharp

sherd.

II Or, who be have themselves without fear.

a Gen. 18. 14. Matt. 19. 26. Mark 10. 27. & 14. 36. Luke 18.27. | Or, no thought of thine can be hindered.

b ch. 38. 2.

© Ps. 40. 5. & 131.1. & 139.6.

the mire.

His great prosperity.

4 Hear, I beseech thee, and I will speak: I will demand of thee, and declare thou unto 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 it was so, that after the LORD had spoken these words unto Job, the LORD said to Eliphaz the Temanite, My wrath is kindled against thee, and against thy two friends: for ye have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job hath.

h

B. C. about 1520.

d ch. 33. 3. & 40.7.

Ezra 9. 6. ch. 40. 4.

Num. 23. 1.

g Matt. 5. 24.

Gen. 20. 17.

James 5, 15, 16. 1 John 5.

8 Therefore take unto you now 'seven bullocks 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 + him will I accept: lest I deal with + Heb. his you after your folly, in that ye have not spoken of me the thing which is right, like my servant Job.

9 So Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite went, and did according as the LORD commanded them: the LORD also accepted † Job.

i

16.

face, or, person,

1 Sam. 25. 35. Mal. 1. 8.

+ Heb. the face of Job.

i Ps. 14. 7. & 126. 1.

10 And the LORD turned the captivity of Job, when he prayed for his friends: also the LORD t gave Job Heb. added twice as much as he had before.

11 Then came there unto him 'all his brethren, and all his sisters, and all they that had been of his acquaintance before, and did eat bread with him in his house: and they bemoaned him, and comforted him over all the evil that the LORD had brought upon him: every man also gave him a piece of money, and every one an earring of gold.

12 So the LORD blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning: for he had fourteen thousand sheep, and six thousand camels, and a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand she asses.

all to Job unto the double. k Is. 40. 2. 1 See ch. 19. 13.

ch. 8. 7. James 5. 11 a See ch. 1.3

13 He had also seven sons and och. 1.2 three daughters.

14 And he called the name of the first, Jemima; and the name of the second, Kezia; and the name of the third, Keren-happuch.

15 And in all the land were no women found so fair as the daughters of Job: and their father gave them inheritance among their brethren.

16 After this lived Job a hundred and forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons' sons, even four generations.

17 So Job died, being old and full of days.

Pch. 5. 26.

Prov. S. 16.

4 Gen. 25. &