Book of Job bible study chapters 32 through 42

 

            Here are the concluding 11 chapters of the book of Job, which basically consist of two discourses, one by this fourth friend of Job, Elihu and then the Lord Himself gives Job a whole bunch of rhetorical questions and discussions in His discourse and session, then chapter 42 is the wrap up and ending to the book. Here is a link to the study of chapters 21 through 31 of the book of Job

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Chapters 32 through 37 are the discourse of Elihu which will be presented without comment between chapters

(Job 32:1)  So these three men ceased to answer Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes.

 

(Job 32:2)  Then Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite, of the family of Ram, burned with anger. He burned with anger at Job because he justified himself rather than God.

 

(Job 32:3)  He burned with anger also at Job's three friends because they had found no answer, although they had declared Job to be in the wrong.

 

(Job 32:4)  Now Elihu had waited to speak to Job because they were older than he.

 

(Job 32:5)  And when Elihu saw that there was no answer in the mouth of these three men, he burned with anger.

 

(Job 32:6)  And Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite answered and said: "I am young in years, and you are aged; therefore I was timid and afraid to declare my opinion to you.

 

(Job 32:7)  I said, 'Let days speak, and many years teach wisdom.'

 

(Job 32:8)  But it is the spirit in man, the breath of the Almighty, that makes him understand.

 

(Job 32:9)  It is not the old who are wise, nor the aged who understand what is right.

 

(Job 32:10)  Therefore I say, 'Listen to me; let me also declare my opinion.'

 

(Job 32:11)  "Behold, I waited for your words, I listened for your wise sayings, while you searched out what to say.

 

(Job 32:12)  I gave you my attention, and, behold, there was none among you who refuted Job or who answered his words.

 

(Job 32:13)  Beware lest you say, 'We have found wisdom; God may vanquish him, not a man.'

 

(Job 32:14)  He has not directed his words against me, and I will not answer him with your speeches.

 

(Job 32:15)  "They are dismayed; they answer no more; they have not a word to say.

 

(Job 32:16)  And shall I wait, because they do not speak, because they stand there, and answer no more?

 

(Job 32:17)  I also will answer with my share; I also will declare my opinion.

 

(Job 32:18)  For I am full of words; the spirit within me constrains me.

 

(Job 32:19)  Behold, my belly is like wine that has no vent; like new wineskins ready to burst.

 

(Job 32:20)  I must speak, that I may find relief; I must open my lips and answer.

 

(Job 32:21)  I will not show partiality to any man or use flattery toward any person.

 

(Job 32:22)  For I do not know how to flatter, else my Maker would soon take me away.

 

(Job 33:1)  "But now, hear my speech, O Job, and listen to all my words.

 

(Job 33:2)  Behold, I open my mouth; the tongue in my mouth speaks.

 

(Job 33:3)  My words declare the uprightness of my heart, and what my lips know they speak sincerely.

 

(Job 33:4)  The Spirit of God has made me, and the breath of the Almighty gives me life.

 

(Job 33:5)  Answer me, if you can; set your words in order before me; take your stand.

 

(Job 33:6)  Behold, I am toward God as you are; I too was pinched off from a piece of clay.

 

(Job 33:7)  Behold, no fear of me need terrify you; my pressure will not be heavy upon you.

 

(Job 33:8)  "Surely you have spoken in my ears, and I have heard the sound of your words.

 

(Job 33:9)  You say, 'I am pure, without transgression; I am clean, and there is no iniquity in me.

 

(Job 33:10)  Behold, he finds occasions against me, he counts me as his enemy,

 

(Job 33:11)  he puts my feet in the stocks and watches all my paths.'

 

(Job 33:12)  "Behold, in this you are not right. I will answer you, for God is greater than man.

 

(Job 33:13)  Why do you contend against him, saying, 'He will answer none of man's words'?

 

(Job 33:14)  For God speaks in one way, and in two, though man does not perceive it.

 

(Job 33:15)  In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falls on men, while they slumber on their beds,

 

(Job 33:16)  then he opens the ears of men and terrifies them with warnings,

 

(Job 33:17)  that he may turn man aside from his deed and conceal pride from a man;

 

(Job 33:18)  he keeps back his soul from the pit, his life from perishing by the sword.

 

(Job 33:19)  "Man is also rebuked with pain on his bed and with continual strife in his bones,

 

(Job 33:20)  so that his life loathes bread, and his appetite the choicest food.

 

(Job 33:21)  His flesh is so wasted away that it cannot be seen, and his bones that were not seen stick out.

 

(Job 33:22)  His soul draws near the pit, and his life to those who bring death.

 

(Job 33:23)  If there be for him an angel, a mediator, one of the thousand, to declare to man what is right for him,

 

(Job 33:24)  and he is merciful to him, and says, 'Deliver him from going down into the pit; I have found a ransom;

 

(Job 33:25)  let his flesh become fresh with youth; let him return to the days of his youthful vigor';

 

(Job 33:26)  then man prays to God, and he accepts him; he sees his face with a shout of joy, and he restores to man his righteousness.

 

(Job 33:27)  He sings before men and says: 'I sinned and perverted what was right, and it was not repaid to me.

 

(Job 33:28)  He has redeemed my soul from going down into the pit, and my life shall look upon the light.'

 

(Job 33:29)  "Behold, God does all these things, twice, three times, with a man,

 

(Job 33:30)  to bring back his soul from the pit, that he may be lighted with the light of life.

 

(Job 33:31)  Pay attention, O Job, listen to me; be silent, and I will speak.

 

(Job 33:32)  If you have any words, answer me; speak, for I desire to justify you.

 

(Job 33:33)  If not, listen to me; be silent, and I will teach you wisdom."

 

(Job 34:1)  Then Elihu answered and said:

 

(Job 34:2)  "Hear my words, you wise men, and give ear to me, you who know;

 

(Job 34:3)  for the ear tests words as the palate tastes food.

 

(Job 34:4)  Let us choose what is right; let us know among ourselves what is good.

 

(Job 34:5)  For Job has said, 'I am in the right, and God has taken away my right;

 

(Job 34:6)  in spite of my right I am counted a liar; my wound is incurable, though I am without transgression.'

 

(Job 34:7)  What man is like Job, who drinks up scoffing like water,

 

(Job 34:8)  who travels in company with evildoers and walks with wicked men?

 

(Job 34:9)  For he has said, 'It profits a man nothing that he should take delight in God.'

 

(Job 34:10)  "Therefore, hear me, you men of understanding: far be it from God that he should do wickedness, and from the Almighty that he should do wrong.

 

(Job 34:11)  For according to the work of a man he will repay him, and according to his ways he will make it befall him.

 

(Job 34:12)  Of a truth, God will not do wickedly, and the Almighty will not pervert justice.

 

(Job 34:13)  Who gave him charge over the earth, and who laid on him the whole world?

 

(Job 34:14)  If he should set his heart to it and gather to himself his spirit and his breath,

 

(Job 34:15)  all flesh would perish together, and man would return to dust.

 

(Job 34:16)  "If you have understanding, hear this; listen to what I say.

 

(Job 34:17)  Shall one who hates justice govern? Will you condemn him who is righteous and mighty,

 

(Job 34:18)  who says to a king, 'Worthless one,' and to nobles, 'Wicked man,'

 

(Job 34:19)  who shows no partiality to princes, nor regards the rich more than the poor, for they are all the work of his hands?

 

(Job 34:20)  In a moment they die; at midnight the people are shaken and pass away, and the mighty are taken away by no human hand.

 

(Job 34:21)  "For his eyes are on the ways of a man, and he sees all his steps.

 

(Job 34:22)  There is no gloom or deep darkness where evildoers may hide themselves.

 

(Job 34:23)  For God has no need to consider a man further, that he should go before God in judgment.

 

(Job 34:24)  He shatters the mighty without investigation and sets others in their place.

 

(Job 34:25)  Thus, knowing their works, he overturns them in the night, and they are crushed.

 

(Job 34:26)  He strikes them for their wickedness in a place for all to see,

 

(Job 34:27)  because they turned aside from following him and had no regard for any of his ways,

 

(Job 34:28)  so that they caused the cry of the poor to come to him, and he heard the cry of the afflicted--

 

(Job 34:29)  When he is quiet, who can condemn? When he hides his face, who can behold him, whether it be a nation or a man?--

 

(Job 34:30)  that a godless man should not reign, that he should not ensnare the people.

 

(Job 34:31)  "For has anyone said to God, 'I have borne punishment; I will not offend any more;

 

(Job 34:32)  teach me what I do not see; if I have done iniquity, I will do it no more'?

 

(Job 34:33)  Will he then make repayment to suit you, because you reject it? For you must choose, and not I; therefore declare what you know.

 

(Job 34:34)  Men of understanding will say to me, and the wise man who hears me will say:

 

(Job 34:35)  'Job speaks without knowledge; his words are without insight.'

 

(Job 34:36)  Would that Job were tried to the end, because he answers like wicked men.

 

(Job 34:37)  For he adds rebellion to his sin; he claps his hands among us and multiplies his words against God."

 

(Job 35:1)  And Elihu answered and said:

 

(Job 35:2)  "Do you think this to be just? Do you say, 'It is my right before God,'

 

(Job 35:3)  that you ask, 'What advantage have I? How am I better off than if I had sinned?'

 

(Job 35:4)  I will answer you and your friends with you.

 

(Job 35:5)  Look at the heavens, and see; and behold the clouds, which are higher than you.

 

(Job 35:6)  If you have sinned, what do you accomplish against him? And if your transgressions are multiplied, what do you do to him?

 

(Job 35:7)  If you are righteous, what do you give to him? Or what does he receive from your hand?

 

(Job 35:8)  Your wickedness concerns a man like yourself, and your righteousness a son of man.

 

(Job 35:9)  "Because of the multitude of oppressions people cry out; they call for help because of the arm of the mighty.

 

(Job 35:10)  But none says, 'Where is God my Maker, who gives songs in the night,

 

(Job 35:11)  who teaches us more than the beasts of the earth and makes us wiser than the birds of the heavens?'

 

(Job 35:12)  There they cry out, but he does not answer, because of the pride of evil men.

 

(Job 35:13)  Surely God does not hear an empty cry, nor does the Almighty regard it.

 

(Job 35:14)  How much less when you say that you do not see him, that the case is before him, and you are waiting for him!

 

(Job 35:15)  And now, because his anger does not punish, and he does not take much note of transgression,

 

(Job 35:16)  Job opens his mouth in empty talk; he multiplies words without knowledge."

 

(Job 36:2)  "Bear with me a little, and I will show you, for I have yet something to say on God's behalf.

 

(Job 36:3)  I will get my knowledge from afar and ascribe righteousness to my Maker.

 

(Job 36:4)  For truly my words are not false; one who is perfect in knowledge is with you.

 

(Job 36:5)  "Behold, God is mighty, and does not despise any; he is mighty in strength of understanding.

 

(Job 36:6)  He does not keep the wicked alive, but gives the afflicted their right.

 

(Job 36:7)  He does not withdraw his eyes from the righteous, but with kings on the throne he sets them forever, and they are exalted.

 

(Job 36:8)  And if they are bound in chains and caught in the cords of affliction,

 

(Job 36:9)  then he declares to them their work and their transgressions, that they are behaving arrogantly.

 

(Job 36:10)  He opens their ears to instruction and commands that they return from iniquity.

 

(Job 36:11)  If they listen and serve him, they complete their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasantness.

 

(Job 36:12)  But if they do not listen, they perish by the sword and die without knowledge.

 

(Job 36:13)  "The godless in heart cherish anger; they do not cry for help when he binds them.

 

(Job 36:14)  They die in youth, and their life ends among the cult prostitutes.

 

(Job 36:15)  He delivers the afflicted by their affliction and opens their ear by adversity.

 

(Job 36:16)  He also allured you out of distress into a broad place where there was no cramping, and what was set on your table was full of fatness.

 

(Job 36:17)  "But you are full of the judgment on the wicked; judgment and justice seize you.

 

(Job 36:18)  Beware lest wrath entice you into scoffing, and let not the greatness of the ransom turn you aside.

 

(Job 36:19)  Will your cry for help avail to keep you from distress, or all the force of your strength?

 

(Job 36:20)  Do not long for the night, when peoples vanish in their place.

 

(Job 36:21)  Take care; do not turn to iniquity, for this you have chosen rather than affliction.

 

(Job 36:22)  Behold, God is exalted in his power; who is a teacher like him?

 

(Job 36:23)  Who has prescribed for him his way, or who can say, 'You have done wrong'?

 

(Job 36:24)  "Remember to extol his work, of which men have sung.

 

(Job 36:25)  All mankind has looked on it; man beholds it from afar.

 

(Job 36:26)  Behold, God is great, and we know him not; the number of his years is unsearchable.

 

(Job 36:27)  For he draws up the drops of water; they distill his mist in rain,

 

(Job 36:28)  which the skies pour down and drop on mankind abundantly.

 

(Job 36:29)  Can anyone understand the spreading of the clouds, the thunderings of his pavilion?

 

(Job 36:30)  Behold, he scatters his lightning about him and covers the roots of the sea.

 

(Job 36:31)  For by these he judges peoples; he gives food in abundance.

 

(Job 36:32)  He covers his hands with the lightning and commands it to strike the mark.

 

(Job 36:33)  Its crashing declares his presence; the cattle also declare that he rises.

 

(Job 37:1)  "At this also my heart trembles and leaps out of its place.

 

(Job 37:2)  Keep listening to the thunder of his voice and the rumbling that comes from his mouth.

 

(Job 37:3)  Under the whole heaven he lets it go, and his lightning to the corners of the earth.

 

(Job 37:4)  After it his voice roars; he thunders with his majestic voice, and he does not restrain the lightnings when his voice is heard.

 

(Job 37:5)  God thunders wondrously with his voice; he does great things that we cannot comprehend.

 

(Job 37:6)  For to the snow he says, 'Fall on the earth,' likewise to the downpour, his mighty downpour.

 

(Job 37:7)  He seals up the hand of every man, that all men whom he made may know it.

 

(Job 37:8)  Then the beasts go into their lairs, and remain in their dens.

 

(Job 37:9)  From its chamber comes the whirlwind, and cold from the scattering winds.

 

(Job 37:10)  By the breath of God ice is given, and the broad waters are frozen fast.

 

(Job 37:11)  He loads the thick cloud with moisture; the clouds scatter his lightning.

 

(Job 37:12)  They turn around and around by his guidance, to accomplish all that he commands them on the face of the habitable world.

 

(Job 37:13)  Whether for correction or for his land or for love, he causes it to happen.

 

(Job 37:14)  "Hear this, O Job; stop and consider the wondrous works of God.

 

(Job 37:15)  Do you know how God lays his command upon them and causes the lightning of his cloud to shine?

 

(Job 37:16)  Do you know the balancings of the clouds, the wondrous works of him who is perfect in knowledge,

 

(Job 37:17)  you whose garments are hot when the earth is still because of the south wind?

 

(Job 37:18)  Can you, like him, spread out the skies, hard as a cast metal mirror?

 

(Job 37:19)  Teach us what we shall say to him; we cannot draw up our case because of darkness.

 

(Job 37:20)  Shall it be told him that I would speak? Did a man ever wish that he would be swallowed up?

 

(Job 37:21)  "And now no one looks on the light when it is bright in the skies, when the wind has passed and cleared them.

 

(Job 37:22)  Out of the north comes golden splendor; God is clothed with awesome majesty.

 

(Job 37:23)  The Almighty--we cannot find him; he is great in power; justice and abundant righteousness he will not violate.

 

(Job 37:24)  Therefore men fear him; he does not regard any who are wise in their own conceit."

 

In the next four turns it is the Lord’s turn to speak to Job and God sure does have a lot of powerful things to say to Job and to ask Job as well. Again, I won’t comment between the chapters so as not to disrupt their flow and impact

(Job 38:1)  Then the LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind and said:

 

(Job 38:2)  "Who is this that darkens counsel by words without knowledge?

 

(Job 38:3)  Dress for action like a man; I will question you, and you make it known to me.

 

(Job 38:4)  "Where were you when I laid the foundation of the earth? Tell me, if you have understanding.

 

(Job 38:5)  Who determined its measurements--surely you know! Or who stretched the line upon it?

 

(Job 38:6)  On what were its bases sunk, or who laid its cornerstone,

 

(Job 38:7)  when the morning stars sang together and all the sons of God shouted for joy?

 

(Job 38:8)  "Or who shut in the sea with doors when it burst out from the womb,

 

(Job 38:9)  when I made clouds its garment and thick darkness its swaddling band,

 

(Job 38:10)  and prescribed limits for it and set bars and doors,

 

(Job 38:11)  and said, 'Thus far shall you come, and no farther, and here shall your proud waves be stayed'?

 

(Job 38:12)  "Have you commanded the morning since your days began, and caused the dawn to know its place,

 

(Job 38:13)  that it might take hold of the skirts of the earth, and the wicked be shaken out of it?

 

(Job 38:14)  It is changed like clay under the seal, and its features stand out like a garment.

 

(Job 38:15)  From the wicked their light is withheld, and their uplifted arm is broken.

 

(Job 38:16)  "Have you entered into the springs of the sea, or walked in the recesses of the deep?

 

(Job 38:17)  Have the gates of death been revealed to you, or have you seen the gates of deep darkness?

 

(Job 38:18)  Have you comprehended the expanse of the earth? Declare, if you know all this.

 

(Job 38:19)  "Where is the way to the dwelling of light, and where is the place of darkness,

 

(Job 38:20)  that you may take it to its territory and that you may discern the paths to its home?

 

(Job 38:21)  You know, for you were born then, and the number of your days is great!

 

(Job 38:22)  "Have you entered the storehouses of the snow, or have you seen the storehouses of the hail,

 

(Job 38:23)  which I have reserved for the time of trouble, for the day of battle and war?

 

(Job 38:24)  What is the way to the place where the light is distributed, or where the east wind is scattered upon the earth?

 

(Job 38:25)  "Who has cleft a channel for the torrents of rain and a way for the thunderbolt,

 

(Job 38:26)  to bring rain on a land where no man is, on the desert in which there is no man,

 

(Job 38:27)  to satisfy the waste and desolate land, and to make the ground sprout with grass?

 

(Job 38:28)  "Has the rain a father, or who has begotten the drops of dew?

 

(Job 38:29)  From whose womb did the ice come forth, and who has given birth to the frost of heaven?

 

(Job 38:30)  The waters become hard like stone, and the face of the deep is frozen.

 

(Job 38:31)  "Can you bind the chains of the Pleiades or loose the cords of Orion?

 

(Job 38:32)  Can you lead forth the Mazzaroth in their season, or can you guide the Bear with its children?

 

(Job 38:33)  Do you know the ordinances of the heavens? Can you establish their rule on the earth?

 

(Job 38:34)  "Can you lift up your voice to the clouds, that a flood of waters may cover you?

 

(Job 38:35)  Can you send forth lightnings, that they may go and say to you, 'Here we are'?

 

(Job 38:36)  Who has put wisdom in the inward parts or given understanding to the mind?

 

(Job 38:37)  Who can number the clouds by wisdom? Or who can tilt the waterskins of the heavens,

 

(Job 38:38)  when the dust runs into a mass and the clods stick fast together?

 

(Job 38:39)  "Can you hunt the prey for the lion, or satisfy the appetite of the young lions,

 

(Job 38:40)  when they crouch in their dens or lie in wait in their thicket?

 

(Job 38:41)  Who provides for the raven its prey, when its young ones cry to God for help, and wander about for lack of food?

 

(Job 39:1)  "Do you know when the mountain goats give birth? Do you observe the calving of the does?

 

(Job 39:2)  Can you number the months that they fulfill, and do you know the time when they give birth,

 

(Job 39:3)  when they crouch, bring forth their offspring, and are delivered of their young?

 

(Job 39:4)  Their young ones become strong; they grow up in the open; they go out and do not return to them.

 

(Job 39:5)  "Who has let the wild donkey go free? Who has loosed the bonds of the swift donkey,

 

(Job 39:6)  to whom I have given the arid plain for his home and the salt land for his dwelling place?

 

(Job 39:7)  He scorns the tumult of the city; he hears not the shouts of the driver.

 

(Job 39:8)  He ranges the mountains as his pasture, and he searches after every green thing.

 

(Job 39:9)  "Is the wild ox willing to serve you? Will he spend the night at your manger?

 

(Job 39:10)  Can you bind him in the furrow with ropes, or will he harrow the valleys after you?

 

(Job 39:11)  Will you depend on him because his strength is great, and will you leave to him your labor?

 

(Job 39:12)  Do you have faith in him that he will return your grain and gather it to your threshing floor?

 

(Job 39:13)  "The wings of the ostrich wave proudly, but are they the pinions and plumage of love?

 

(Job 39:14)  For she leaves her eggs to the earth and lets them be warmed on the ground,

 

(Job 39:15)  forgetting that a foot may crush them and that the wild beast may trample them.

 

(Job 39:16)  She deals cruelly with her young, as if they were not hers; though her labor be in vain, yet she has no fear,

 

(Job 39:17)  because God has made her forget wisdom and given her no share in understanding.

 

(Job 39:18)  When she rouses herself to flee, she laughs at the horse and his rider.

 

(Job 39:19)  "Do you give the horse his might? Do you clothe his neck with a mane?

 

(Job 39:20)  Do you make him leap like the locust? His majestic snorting is terrifying.

 

(Job 39:21)  He paws in the valley and exults in his strength; he goes out to meet the weapons.

 

(Job 39:22)  He laughs at fear and is not dismayed; he does not turn back from the sword.

 

(Job 39:23)  Upon him rattle the quiver, the flashing spear, and the javelin.

 

(Job 39:24)  With fierceness and rage he swallows the ground; he cannot stand still at the sound of the trumpet.

 

(Job 39:25)  When the trumpet sounds, he says 'Aha!' He smells the battle from afar, the thunder of the captains, and the shouting.

 

(Job 39:26)  "Is it by your understanding that the hawk soars and spreads his wings toward the south?

 

(Job 39:27)  Is it at your command that the eagle mounts up and makes his nest on high?

 

(Job 39:28)  On the rock he dwells and makes his home, on the rocky crag and stronghold.

 

(Job 39:29)  From there he spies out the prey; his eyes behold it from far away.

 

(Job 39:30)  His young ones suck up blood, and where the slain are, there is he."

 

(Job 40:1)  And the LORD said to Job:

 

(Job 40:2)  "Shall a faultfinder contend with the Almighty? He who argues with God, let him answer it."

 

(Job 40:3)  Then Job answered the LORD and said:

 

(Job 40:4)  "Behold, I am of small account; what shall I answer you? I lay my hand on my mouth.

 

(Job 40:5)  I have spoken once, and I will not answer; twice, but I will proceed no further."

 

(Job 40:6)  Then the LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind and said:

 

(Job 40:7)  "Dress for action like a man; I will question you, and you make it known to me.

 

(Job 40:8)  Will you even put me in the wrong? Will you condemn me that you may be in the right?

 

(Job 40:9)  Have you an arm like God, and can you thunder with a voice like his?

 

(Job 40:10)  "Adorn yourself with majesty and dignity; clothe yourself with glory and splendor.

 

(Job 40:11)  Pour out the overflowings of your anger, and look on everyone who is proud and abase him.

 

(Job 40:12)  Look on everyone who is proud and bring him low and tread down the wicked where they stand.

 

(Job 40:13)  Hide them all in the dust together; bind their faces in the world below.

 

(Job 40:14)  Then will I also acknowledge to you that your own right hand can save you.

 

(Job 40:15)  "Behold, Behemoth, which I made as I made you; he eats grass like an ox.

 

(Job 40:16)  Behold, his strength in his loins, and his power in the muscles of his belly.

 

(Job 40:17)  He makes his tail stiff like a cedar; the sinews of his thighs are knit together.

 

(Job 40:18)  His bones are tubes of bronze, his limbs like bars of iron.

 

(Job 40:19)  "He is the first of the works of God; let him who made him bring near his sword!

 

(Job 40:20)  For the mountains yield food for him where all the wild beasts play.

 

(Job 40:21)  Under the lotus plants he lies, in the shelter of the reeds and in the marsh.

 

(Job 40:22)  For his shade the lotus trees cover him; the willows of the brook surround him.

 

(Job 40:23)  Behold, if the river is turbulent he is not frightened; he is confident though Jordan rushes against his mouth.

 

(Job 40:24)  Can one take him by his eyes, or pierce his nose with a snare?

 

(Job 41:1)  "Can you draw out Leviathan with a fishhook or press down his tongue with a cord?

 

(Job 41:2)  Can you put a rope in his nose or pierce his jaw with a hook?

 

(Job 41:3)  Will he make many pleas to you? Will he speak to you soft words?

 

(Job 41:4)  Will he make a covenant with you to take him for your servant forever?

 

(Job 41:5)  Will you play with him as with a bird, or will you put him on a leash for your girls?

 

(Job 41:6)  Will traders bargain over him? Will they divide him up among the merchants?

 

(Job 41:7)  Can you fill his skin with harpoons or his head with fishing spears?

 

(Job 41:8)  Lay your hands on him; remember the battle--you will not do it again!

 

(Job 41:9)  Behold, the hope of a man is false; he is laid low even at the sight of him.

 

(Job 41:10)  No one is so fierce that he dares to stir him up. Who then is he who can stand before me?

 

(Job 41:11)  Who has first given to me, that I should repay him? Whatever is under the whole heaven is mine.

 

(Job 41:12)  "I will not keep silence concerning his limbs, or his mighty strength, or his goodly frame.

 

(Job 41:13)  Who can strip off his outer garment? Who would come near him with a bridle?

 

(Job 41:14)  Who can open the doors of his face? Around his teeth is terror.

 

(Job 41:15)  His back is made of rows of shields, shut up closely as with a seal.

 

(Job 41:16)  One is so near to another that no air can come between them.

 

(Job 41:17)  They are joined one to another; they clasp each other and cannot be separated.

 

(Job 41:18)  His sneezings flash forth light, and his eyes are like the eyelids of the dawn.

 

(Job 41:19)  Out of his mouth go flaming torches; sparks of fire leap forth.

 

(Job 41:20)  Out of his nostrils comes forth smoke, as from a boiling pot and burning rushes.

 

(Job 41:21)  His breath kindles coals, and a flame comes forth from his mouth.

 

(Job 41:22)  In his neck abides strength, and terror dances before him.

 

(Job 41:23)  The folds of his flesh stick together, firmly cast on him and immovable.

 

(Job 41:24)  His heart is hard as a stone, hard as the lower millstone.

 

(Job 41:25)  When he raises himself up the mighty are afraid; at the crashing they are beside themselves.

 

(Job 41:26)  Though the sword reaches him, it does not avail, nor the spear, the dart, or the javelin.

 

(Job 41:27)  He counts iron as straw, and bronze as rotten wood.

 

(Job 41:28)  The arrow cannot make him flee; for him sling stones are turned to stubble.

 

(Job 41:29)  Clubs are counted as stubble; he laughs at the rattle of javelins.

 

(Job 41:30)  His underparts are like sharp potsherds; he spreads himself like a threshing sledge on the mire.

 

(Job 41:31)  He makes the deep boil like a pot; he makes the sea like a pot of ointment.

 

(Job 41:32)  Behind him he leaves a shining wake; one would think the deep to be white-haired.

 

(Job 41:33)  On earth there is not his like, a creature without fear.

 

(Job 41:34)  He sees everything that is high; he is king over all the sons of pride."

 

Here is the end chapter of Job, where Job, now realizing how great God is repents. God then turns to Job’s friends chastising them for what they said about Job, making them repent by offering a burnt offering, or face the wrath of God because the didn’t speak right, and they do choose wisely and do all commanded with them. Then Job is blessed by God with twice what he originally had

(Job 42:1)  Then Job answered the LORD and said:

 

(Job 42:2)  "I know that you can do all things, and that no purpose of yours can be thwarted.

 

(Job 42:3)  '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.

 

(Job 42:4)  'Hear, and I will speak; I will question you, and you make it known to me.'

 

(Job 42:5)  I had heard of you by the hearing of the ear, but now my eye sees you;

 

(Job 42:6)  therefore I despise myself, and repent in dust and ashes."

 

(Job 42:7)  After the LORD had spoken these words to Job, the LORD said to Eliphaz the Temanite: "My anger burns against you and against your two friends, for you have not spoken of me what is right, as my servant Job has.

 

(Job 42:8)  Now therefore take seven bulls and seven rams and go to my servant Job and offer up a burnt offering for yourselves. 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."

 

(Job 42:9)  So Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite went and did what the LORD had told them, and the LORD accepted Job's prayer.

 

(Job 42:10)  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.

 

(Job 42:11)  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.

 

(Job 42:12)  And the LORD blessed the latter days of Job more than his beginning. And he had 14,000 sheep, 6,000 camels, 1,000 yoke of oxen, and 1,000 female donkeys.

 

(Job 42:13)  He had also seven sons and three daughters.

 

(Job 42:14)  And he called the name of the first daughter Jemimah, and the name of the second Keziah, and the name of the third Keren-happuch.

 

(Job 42:15)  And in all the land there were no women so beautiful as Job's daughters. And their father gave them an inheritance among their brothers.

 

(Job 42:16)  And after this Job lived 140 years, and saw his sons, and his sons' sons, four generations.

 

(Job 42:17)  And Job died, an old man, and full of days.

 

The loss of Job’s possessions and family were no doubt devastating, yet he bore it through, trusting God even though he likely never, ever understood what was going on. Jesus knew fully well that He would suffer a horrible death long before He did, but did it in love, wanting people to be forgiven of their sins, redeemed and in a right relationship with God. There is nothing that can be compared to a relationship with God, either, nothing at all. He is so good. I am now including a prayer which you can use to invite Jesus into your heart for this relationship to start or to come back to it, if you have drifted away for God is so merciful and good, not wanting any to be lost. Please pray this prayer with me:

Dear God in heaven, I come to you in the name of Jesus. I acknowledge to You that I am a sinner, and I am sorry for my sins and the life that I have lived; I need your forgiveness. I believe that your only begotten Son Jesus Christ shed His precious blood on the cross at Calvary and died for my sins, and I am now willing to turn from my sin. You said in Your Holy Word, Romans 10:9 that if we confess Jesus as our Lord and believe in our hearts that God raised Jesus from the dead, we will be saved. Right now I confess Jesus as the Lord of my soul. With my heart, I believe that God raised Jesus from the dead. This very moment I accept Jesus Christ as my own personal Savior and according to His Word, right now I am saved. Thank you Jesus for your unlimited grace which has saved me from my sins. I thank you Jesus that your grace never leads to license, but rather it always leads to repentance. Therefore Lord Jesus transform my life so that I may bring glory and honor to you alone and not to myself. Thank you Jesus for dying for me and giving me eternal life.

Amen.

God bless you and yours