Job 41 - 42, Luke 17, Psalm 49 — Legacy Standard Bible

Can You Draw Out Leviathan?

41“¹Can you draw out ²^,^aLeviathan with a fishhook?Or press down its tongue with a cord?²“Can you ^aput a ¹rope in its noseOr pierce its jaw with a ²hook?³“Will it make many supplications to you,Or will he speak to you soft words?⁴“Will it cut a covenant with you?Will you take it for a slave forever?⁵“Will you play with it as with a bird,Or will you bind it for your young women?⁶“Will the ¹traders bargain over it?Will they divide it among the merchants?⁷“Can you fill its skin with harpoons,Or its head with fishing spears?⁸“Place your hand on it;Remember the battle; ¹you will not do that again!⁹“¹Behold, ²his expectation is a lie;Will ³he be laid low even at the sight of it?¹⁰“No one is so fierce that he dares to ^aarouse it;Who then is he that can stand before Me?¹¹“Who has ¹^,^agiven to Me that I should repay him?Whatever is ^bunder the whole heaven is Mine.¹²“I will not keep silence concerning its limbs,Or its mighty strength or its graceful frame.¹³“Who can ¹strip off its ²outer armor?Who can come with its doubled ³bridle?¹⁴“Who can open the doors of its face?Around its teeth there is dreadful terror.¹⁵“Its ¹strong scales are its pride,Shut up as with a tight seal.¹⁶“One is so near to anotherThat no air can come between them.¹⁷“They cling one to another;They are interlocked and cannot be separated.¹⁸“Its sneezes flash forth light,And its eyes are like the ^aeyelids of the morning.¹⁹“Out of its mouth go burning torches;Sparks of fire ¹leap forth.²⁰“Out of its nostrils smoke goes forthAs from a boiling pot and burning reeds.²¹“Its breath kindles coals,And a flame goes forth from its mouth.²²“In its neck lodges strength,And dismay leaps before it.²³“The folds of its flesh cling together,Hardened upon it and is not shaken.²⁴“Its heart is as hard as a stone,Even as hard as a lower millstone.²⁵“When it raises itself up, the ¹mighty fear,Because of the crashing they are ²bewildered.²⁶“The sword that reaches it cannot avail,Nor the spear, the dart, or the javelin.²⁷“It regards iron as straw,Bronze as rotten wood.²⁸“The ¹arrow cannot make it flee;Slingstones are turned into stubble for it.²⁹“Clubs are regarded as stubble;It laughs at the rattling of the javelin.³⁰“Its underparts are like sharp potsherds;It ¹spreads out like a threshing sledge on the mire.³¹“It makes the depths boil like a pot;It makes the sea like a jar of ointment.³²“Behind it, it makes a wake to shine;One would think the deep to be gray-haired.³³“^aThere is nothing upon the ¹dust like it,One made without terror.³⁴“¹It looks on everything that is high;It is king over all the ^asons of pride.”

Job Repents in Dust and Ashes

42Then Job answered Yahweh and said,

²“I know that ^aYou can do all things,And that no purpose of Yours can be thwarted.³‘Who is this that ^ahides counsel without knowledge?’Therefore I have declared that which I did not understand,Things ^btoo marvelous for me, which I did not know.⁴‘Hear, now, and I will speak;I will ^aask You, and You make me know.’⁵“I have ^aheard of You by the hearing of the ear;But now my ^beye sees You;⁶Therefore I reject myself,And I repent in dust and ashes.”

Yahweh’s Anger Towards Job’s Friends

⁷Now it happened after Yahweh had spoken these words to Job, that Yahweh said to Eliphaz the Temanite, “My anger burns against you and against your two friends because you have not spoken of Me what is right ^aas My servant Job has. ⁸“So now, take for yourselves ^aseven bulls and seven rams, and go to My servant Job, and offer up a ^bburnt offering for yourselves, and My servant Job will ^cpray for you. ^dFor I will ¹accept him so that I may not do with you according to your folly, because you have not spoken of Me what is right, as My servant Job has.” ⁹So Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite went and did as Yahweh told them; and Yahweh ¹accepted Job.

Yahweh Restores Job’s Fortunes

¹⁰And Yahweh ^arestored the fortunes of Job when he prayed for his friends, and Yahweh increased all that Job had twofold. ¹¹Then all his ^abrothers and all his sisters and all who had known him before came to him, and they ate bread with him in his house; and they ^bconsoled him and comforted him for all the calamity that Yahweh had brought on him. And each one gave him one ¹qesitah, and each a ring of gold. ¹²^aAnd Yahweh blessed the latter days of Job more than his beginning; ^band he had 14,000 sheep and 6,000 camels and 1,000 pairs of oxen and 1,000 female donkeys. ¹³^aHe also had seven sons and three daughters. ¹⁴And he named the first Jemimah and the second Keziah and the third Keren-happuch. ¹⁵Now in all the land no women were found so beautiful as Job’s daughters; and their father gave them inheritance among their brothers. ¹⁶And after this, Job lived 140 years and saw his sons and his grandsons, four generations. ¹⁷^aThen Job died, an old man and full of days.

Do All Which Jesus Commands

17Now He said to His disciples, “^aIt is ¹inevitable that ²stumbling blocks come, but woe to him through whom they come! ²“^aIt ¹would be better for him if a millstone were hung around his neck and he were thrown into the sea, than that he would cause one of these little ones to stumble. ³“¹Be on your guard! ^aIf your brother sins, rebuke him; and if he repents, forgive him. ⁴“And if he sins against you ^aseven times a day, and returns to you seven times, saying, ‘I repent,’ ¹forgive him.”

⁵^aAnd the apostles said to ^bthe Lord, “Increase our faith!” ⁶And ^athe Lord said, “If you have faith like ^ba mustard seed, you would say to this ^cmulberry tree, ‘Be uprooted and be planted in the sea’; and it would ¹obey you.

⁷“But which of you, having a slave plowing or tending sheep, will say to him when he has come in from the field, ‘Come immediately and ¹sit down to eat’? ⁸“But will he not say to him, ‘^aPrepare something for me to eat, and, ¹clothing yourself properly, serve me while I eat and drink; and ²afterward you ³may eat and drink’? ⁹“Is he grateful to the slave because he did the things which were commanded? ¹⁰“In this way, you also, when you do all the things which are commanded of you, say, ‘We are unworthy slaves; we have done only that which we ought to have done.’”

Jesus Cleanses Ten Lepers

¹¹And it happened that while He was ^aon the way to Jerusalem, ^bHe was passing through Samaria and Galilee. ¹²And as He entered a village, ten leprous men who ^astood at a distance met Him. ¹³And they raised their voices, saying, “Jesus, ^aMaster, have mercy on us!” ¹⁴When He saw them, He said to them, “^aGo and show yourselves to the priests.” And it happened that as they were going, they were cleansed. ¹⁵Now one of them, when he saw that he had been healed, turned back, ^aglorifying God with a loud voice, ¹⁶and he fell on his face at His feet, giving thanks to Him. And he was a ^aSamaritan. ¹⁷Then Jesus answered and said, “Were there not ten cleansed? But the nine—where are they? ¹⁸“¹Was there no one found who turned back to ^agive glory to God, except this foreigner?” ¹⁹And He said to him, “Stand up and go; ^ayour faith has ¹saved you.”

²⁰Now having been questioned by the Pharisees ^aas to when the kingdom of God was coming, He answered them and said, “The kingdom of God is not coming with ¹^,^bsigns to be observed, ²¹nor will ^athey say, ‘Look, here!’ or, ‘There!’ For behold, the kingdom of God is in your midst.”

The Coming of the Son of Man

²²And He said to the disciples, “^aThe days will come when you will long to see one of the days of the Son of Man, and you will not see it. ²³“^aAnd they will say to you, ‘Look there! Look here!’ Do not go away, and do not run after them. ²⁴“^aFor just like the lightning, when it flashes out of one part ¹of the sky, shines to the other part ²of the sky, so will the Son of Man be in His day. ²⁵“^aBut first He must suffer many things and be rejected by this generation. ²⁶“^aAnd just as it was ^bin the days of Noah, so it will be also in the days of the Son of Man: ²⁷they were eating, they were drinking, they were marrying, they were being given in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all. ²⁸“¹It was the same as in ^athe days of Lot—they were eating, they were drinking, they were buying, they were selling, they were planting, they were building; ²⁹but on the day that Lot went out from Sodom it rained fire and ¹brimstone from heaven and destroyed them all. ³⁰“It will be ¹just the same on the day that the Son of Man ^ais revealed. ³¹“On that day, the one who is ^aon the housetop and whose goods are in the house must not go down to take them out, and likewise the one who is in the field must not turn back. ³²“^aRemember Lot’s wife. ³³“^aWhoever seeks to keep his ¹life will lose it, and whoever loses his life will preserve it. ³⁴“I tell you, on that night there will be two in one bed; one will be taken and the other will be left. ³⁵“^aThere will be two women grinding grain at the same place; one will be taken and the other will be left. ³⁶¹[“^aTwo men will be in the field; one will be taken and the other will be left.”] ³⁷And answering they *said to Him, “Where, Lord?” And He said to them, “^aWhere the body is, there also the ¹vultures will be gathered.”

Why Should I Fear in Days of Evil?

For the choir director. Of the sons of Korah. A Psalm.

^aHear this, all peoples;Give ear, all ^binhabitants of the world,²Both ¹^,^alow and ²high,Rich and poor together.³My mouth will ^aspeak wisdom,And the meditation of my heart will be ^bdiscernment.⁴I will incline my ear to ^aa proverb;^bI will ¹express my ^criddle on the harp.⁵Why should I ^afear in days of evil,When the iniquity of my ¹supplanters surrounds me,⁶Even those who ^atrust in their wealthAnd boast in the abundance of their riches?⁷Truly, no man can ^aredeem his brother;He cannot give to God a ^bransom for him—⁸For ^athe redemption price for their soul is costly,And it ceases forever—⁹That he should ^alive on eternally,That he should not ^bsee ¹corruption.¹⁰For he sees that even ^awise men die;The ¹^,^bfool and the senseless alike perishAnd ^cleave their wealth to others.¹¹Their ¹^,^ainner thought is that their houses ^bare foreverAnd their dwelling places ²from generation to generation;They have ^ccalled their lands after their own names.¹²But ^aman in his honor will not endure;He is like the animals that ¹perish.¹³This is the ^away of those who are foolish,And of those after them who ^bare pleased ¹with their words. ² Selah.¹⁴As sheep they are appointed ^afor Sheol;Death will shepherd them;And the ^bupright shall have dominion over them in the morning,And their form shall be for Sheol ^cto consume,Far away from his habitation.¹⁵But God will ^aredeem my soul from the ¹power of Sheol,For ^bHe will receive me. Selah.¹⁶Do not be afraid ^awhen a man becomes rich,When the ¹glory of his house increases;¹⁷For when he dies he will not ^atake any of it;His ¹glory will not descend after him.¹⁸For while he lives he ^ablesses his soul—And men will praise you when you do well for yourself—¹⁹But his soul shall ^ago to the generation of his fathers;They will eternally not see ^blight.²⁰^aMan in his honor, but who does not understand,Is ^blike the animals that ¹perish.