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40 Moreover Hashem answered Iyov, and said,

² Shall he that contendeth with Shaddai correct him? The mokhiach Eloah (rebuker of G-d), let him answer it.

³ Then Iyov answered Hashem, and said,

⁴ See, I am vile; what shall I answer Thee? I will lay mine yad upon my mouth.

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

⁶ Then answered Hashem unto Iyov out of the whirlwind, and said,

⁷ Gird up thy loins now like a gever. I will question thee, and thou shall answer Me.

⁸ Wilt thou also annul My mishpat (justice)? Wilt thou condemn Me, that thou mayest be justified?

⁹ Hast thou a zero’a like El? Or canst thou thunder with a kol (voice) like Him?

¹⁰ Adorn thyself now with majesty and excellency; and array thyself with hod (glory) and hadar (splendor).

¹¹ Unleash thy evrot af (furious wrath); and behold every one that is proud, and bring him low.

¹² Look on every one that is proud, and humble him, and tread down the resha’im in their place.

¹³ Bury them in the aphar together; shroud their faces in the crypt.

¹⁴ Then odecha (will I confess, admit unto thee) that thine own right hand can save thee.

¹⁵ Hinei now behemot (hippopotamus), which I made along with thee; he eateth grass like an ox.

¹⁶ Hinei now, his koach is in his loins, and his force is in the sinews of his beten (belly).

¹⁷ He moveth his zanav (tail) like a cedar branch; the sinews of his thighs are firmly interwoven.

¹⁸ His atzmot are like tubes of nechoshet; his limbs are like rods of barzel (iron).

¹⁹ He is the reshit (firstling) of the ways of El; He, his Maker, can approach it with His cherev.

²⁰ Surely the harim bring forth food for him, where all the wild beasts play.

²¹ He lieth under the shade of lotus plants, beseter (in the covert) of the reed and marsh.

²² The lotus plants cover him with their shadow; the willows by the nakhal (brook, stream) surround him.

²³ See, when the nahar (river) rages, he is not alarmed; he is confident, though Yarden breaketh forth upon his mouth.

²⁴ While he is looking can one capture him? With mokeshim (hooks) can one pierce his nose?

41 Canst thou draw out Leviathan with a khakah (fishhook)? Or tie down his leshon with a cord?

^2 (26) Canst thou put a hook into his af (nose)? Or bore his jaw through with a barb?

^3 (27) Will he make many tachanunim unto thee? Will he speak soft words unto thee?

^4 (28) Will he make a brit (covenant) with thee? Wilt thou take him for an eved olam?

^5 (29) Wilt thou play with him as with a pet bird? Or wilt thou leash him for thy na’arot (maidens)?

^6 (30) Shall traders barter for him? Shall they divide him among the Kena’anim (Canaanites, merchants)?

^7 (31) Canst thou fill his ohr (skin) with harpoons? Or his head with fishing spears?

^8 (32) Lay thine hand upon him; remember the milchamah. Thou wilt not do it more.

^9 (41:1) See, every tokhelet (expectation) is false; shall not one be cast down even at the sight of him?

^10 (41:2) None is so foolhardy that dare stir him up. Mi (who) then is able to stand before Me?

^11 (41:3) Mi (who) hath given Me, that I must repay him? Whatsoever is under the kol HaShomayim is Mine.

^12 (41:4) I will not keep silent about his members, nor his gevurah, nor the grace of his form.

^13 (41:5) Mi (who) can remove his outer garment? Or mi (who) can come near him with a double bridle?

^14 (41:6) Mi (who) can open the doors of his face? Terror is round about his teeth.

^15 (41:7) His scales are his ga’avah (pride), shut up together as with a rigid chotam (seal).

^16 (41:8) One is so near to another, that no ruach (air) can pass between them.

^17 (41:9) They are joined one to another; they stick together, inseparably.

^18 (41:10) By his sneezings ohr flares out, and his eyes are like the eyelids of the shachar.

^19 (41:11) Out of his mouth goeth flame, and sparks of eish leap out.

^20 (41:12) Out of his nostrils goeth forth smoke, like a seething pot or caldron.

^21 (41:13) His breath kindleth coals, and a flame goeth out of his mouth.

^22 (41:14) In his neck resideth oz (strength), and terror dances before him.

^23 (41:15) The flanks of his basar are joined together; they are firm in themselves, immoveable.

^24 (41:16) His lev (chest) is as firm as an even (stone); yea, as hard as the lower millstone.

^25 (41:17) When he raiseth up himself, the mighty are afraid; shuddering they retreat.

^26 (41:18) The cherev of him that reacheth at him cannot hold—the spear, the dart, nor the harpoon.

^27 (41:19) He esteemeth barzel (iron) like straw, and nechoshet as rotten wood.

^28 (41:20) The arrow cannot make him flee; sling stones are turned with him into stubble.

^29 (41:21) Clubs are counted as straw; he laugheth at the shaking of a spear.

^30 (41:22) Sharp shards are his under parts; he leaveth a trail in the mud like a threshing sledge.

^31 (41:23) He maketh the deep to boil like a pot; he stirreth the yam like a pot of ointment.

^32 (41:24) He maketh a wake to shine after him; one would think the deep to be white hair.

^33 (41:25) Upon earth there is not his equal, who is created without fear.

^34 (41:26) He beholdeth all things lofty; he is a melech over every proud beast.

42 Then Iyov answered Hashem, and said,

² I have da’as that Thou canst do all things, and that no purpose of Thine can be thwarted.

³ Who is this that hideth etzah (counsel) without da’as? Therefore have I judged without understanding things too wonderful for me, which I knew not.

⁴ Shema, I beseech Thee, and I will speak; I will ask of Thee, and declare Thou unto me.

⁵ I have heard of Thee by the hearing of the ozen, but now mine eye hath seen Thee.

⁶ Therefore I abhor myself, and nichamti (I am sorry, I make teshuvah) in dust and ashes.

⁷ And it was so, that after Hashem had spoken these words unto Iyov, Hashem said to Eliphaz the Temani, My wrath is kindled against thee, and against thy two friends; for ye have not spoken in reference to Me the thing that is nekhonah (correct), like Avdi Iyov hath.

⁸ Therefore take unto you now seven bulls and seven rams, and go to Avdi Iyov, and offer up for yourselves olah (burnt offering); and Avdi Iyov shall pray for you; for him will I accept; lest I deal with you after your nevalah (folly), in that ye have not spoken in reference to Me the thing which is nekhonah (correct), like Avdi Iyov.

⁹ So Eliphaz the Temani and Bildad the Shuchi and Tzophar the Na’amati went, and did according as Hashem commanded them. Hashem also accepted Iyov.

¹⁰ And Hashem restored the fortunes of Iyov, when he prayed for his friends; also Hashem gave Iyov twice as much as he possessed 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 lechem with him in his bais; and they expressed sympathy with him, and comforted him over all the ra’ah that Hashem had brought upon him; every ish also gave him a kesitah, and every ish a ring of zahav.

¹² So Hashem blessed the acharit (latter end) of Iyov more than his reshit; for he had fourteen thousand tzon, and six thousand gemalim, and a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand she-donkeys.

¹³ He had also seven banim and shalosh banot.

¹⁴ And he called the shem of the first, Yemima, and the shem of the second, Ketziah, and the shem of the third, Keren-hapuch.

¹⁵ And in kol ha’aretz were no nashim found so fair as the banot Iyov; and their av gave them nachalah with their achim.

¹⁶ After this lived Iyov an hundred and forty shanah, and saw his banim, and his banei banim, even arba’ah dorot.

¹⁷ So Iyov died, being zaken and full of yamim.