Job 41 - 42 - Legacy Standard Bible

Job 41 - 42

Can You Draw Out Leviathan?

“Can you draw out Leviathan with a fishhook?

Or press down its tongue with a cord?

Can you put a rope in its nose

Or pierce its jaw with a hook?

Will it make many supplications to you,

Or will he speak to you soft words?

Will it cut a covenant with you?

Will you take it for a slave forever?

Will you play with it as with a bird,

Or will you bind it for your young women?

Will the traders bargain over it?

Will they divide it among the merchants?

Can you fill its skin with harpoons,

Or its head with fishing spears?

Place your hand on it;

Remember the battle; you will not do that again!

Behold, his expectation is a lie;

Will he be laid low even at the sight of it?

No one is so fierce that he dares to arouse it;

Who then is he that can stand before Me?

Who has given to Me that I should repay him?

Whatever is under the whole heaven is Mine.

“I will not keep silence concerning its limbs,

Or its mighty strength or its graceful frame.

Who can strip off its outer armor?

Who can come with its doubled bridle?

Who can open the doors of its face?

Around its teeth there is dreadful terror.

Its strong scales are its pride,

Shut up as with a tight seal.

One is so near to another

That no air can come between them.

They cling one to another;

They are interlocked and cannot be separated.

Its sneezes flash forth light,

And its eyes are like the eyelids of the morning.

Out of its mouth go burning torches;

Sparks of fire leap forth.

Out of its nostrils smoke goes forth

As from a boiling pot and burning reeds.

Its breath kindles coals,

And a flame goes forth from its mouth.

In its neck lodges strength,

And dismay leaps before it.

The folds of its flesh cling together,

Hardened upon it and is not shaken.

Its heart is as hard as a stone,

Even as hard as a lower millstone.

When it raises itself up, the mighty fear,

Because of the crashing they are bewildered.

The sword that reaches it cannot avail,

Nor the spear, the dart, or the javelin.

It regards iron as straw,

Bronze as rotten wood.

The arrow cannot make it flee;

Slingstones are turned into stubble for it.

Clubs are regarded as stubble;

It laughs at the rattling of the javelin.

Its underparts are like sharp potsherds;

It spreads out like a threshing sledge on the mire.

It makes the depths boil like a pot;

It makes the sea like a jar of ointment.

Behind it, it makes a wake to shine;

One would think the deep to be gray‑haired.

There is nothing upon the dust like it,

One made without terror.

It looks on everything that is high;

It is king over all the sons of pride.”

Job Repents in Dust and Ashes

Then Job answered Yahweh and said, 2

“I know that You can do all things,

And that no purpose of Yours can be thwarted.

‘Who is this that hides counsel without knowledge?’

Therefore I have declared that which I did not understand,

Things too marvelous for me, which I did not know.

‘Hear, now, and I will speak;

I will ask You, and You make me know.’

I have heard of You by the hearing of the ear;

But now my eye sees You;

Therefore I reject myself,

And I repent in dust and ashes.”

Yahweh’s Anger Towards Job’s Friends

7 Now 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 as My servant Job has. 8 So now, take for yourselves seven bulls and seven rams, and go to My servant Job, and offer up a burnt offering for yourselves, and My servant Job will pray for you. For I will accept 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.” 9 So Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite went and did as Yahweh told them; and Yahweh accepted Job.

Yahweh Restores Job’s Fortunes

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

Luke 17

Do All Which Jesus Commands

Now He said to His disciples, “It is inevitable that stumbling blocks come, but woe to him through whom they come! 2 It would 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 Be on your guard! If your brother sins, rebuke him; and if he repents, forgive him. 4 And if he sins against you seven times a day, and returns to you seven times, saying, ‘I repent,’ forgive him.” 5 And the apostles said to the Lord, “Increase our faith!” 6 And the Lord said, “If you have faith like a mustard seed, you would say to this mulberry tree, ‘Be uprooted and be planted in the sea’; and it would obey 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 sit down to eat’? 8 But will he not say to him, ‘Prepare something for me to eat, and, clothing yourself properly, serve me while I eat and drink; and afterward you may 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

11 And it happened that while He was on the way to Jerusalem, He was passing through Samaria and Galilee. 12 And as He entered a village, ten leprous men who stood at a distance met Him. 13 And they raised their voices, saying, “Jesus, Master, have mercy on us!” 14 When He saw them, He said to them, “Go and show yourselves to the priests.” And it happened that as they were going, they were cleansed. 15 Now one of them, when he saw that he had been healed, turned back, glorifying God with a loud voice, 16 and he fell on his face at His feet, giving thanks to Him. And he was a Samaritan. 17 Then Jesus answered and said, “Were there not ten cleansed? But the nine—where are they? 18 Was there no one found who turned back to give glory to God, except this foreigner?” 19 And He said to him, “Stand up and go; your faith has saved you.” 20 Now having been questioned by the Pharisees as to when the kingdom of God was coming, He answered them and said, “The kingdom of God is not coming with signs to be observed, 21 nor will they say, ‘Look, here!’ or, ‘There!’ For behold, the kingdom of God is in your midst.”

The Coming of the Son of Man

22 And He said to the disciples, “The 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 And they will say to you, ‘Look there! Look here!’ Do not go away, and do not run after them. 24 For just like the lightning, when it flashes out of one part of the sky, shines to the other part of the sky, so will the Son of Man be in His day. 25 But first He must suffer many things and be rejected by this generation. 26 And just as it was in the days of Noah, so it will be also in the days of the Son of Man: 27 they 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 It was the same as in the days of Lot—they were eating, they were drinking, they were buying, they were selling, they were planting, they were building; 29 but on the day that Lot went out from Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven and destroyed them all. 30 It will be just the same on the day that the Son of Man is revealed. 31 On that day, the one who is on 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 Remember Lot’s wife. 33 Whoever seeks to keep his life 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 There will be two women grinding grain at the same place; one will be taken and the other will be left. 36 [Two men will be in the field; one will be taken and the other will be left.”] 37 And answering they *said to Him, “Where, Lord?” And He said to them, “Where the body is, there also the vultures will be gathered.”

Psalm 49

Why Should I Fear in Days of Evil?

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

Hear this, all peoples;

Give ear, all inhabitants of the world,

Both low and high,

Rich and poor together.

My mouth will speak wisdom,

And the meditation of my heart will be discernment.

I will incline my ear to a proverb;

I will express my riddle on the harp.

Why should I fear in days of evil,

When the iniquity of my supplanters surrounds me,

Even those who trust in their wealth

And boast in the abundance of their riches?

Truly, no man can redeem his brother;

He cannot give to God a ransom for him—

For the redemption price for their soul is costly,

And it ceases forever—

That he should live on eternally,

That he should not see corruption.

For he sees that even wise men die;

The fool and the senseless alike perish

And leave their wealth to others.

Their inner thought is that their houses are forever

And their dwelling places from generation to generation;

They have called their lands after their own names.

But man in his honor will not endure;

He is like the animals that perish.

This is the way of those who are foolish,

And of those after them who are pleased with their words. Selah.

As sheep they are appointed for Sheol;

Death will shepherd them;

And the upright shall have dominion over them in the morning,

And their form shall be for Sheol to consume,

Far away from his habitation.

But God will redeem my soul from the power of Sheol,

For He will receive me. Selah.

Do not be afraid when a man becomes rich,

When the glory of his house increases;

For when he dies he will not take any of it;

His glory will not descend after him.

For while he lives he blesses his soul—

And men will praise you when you do well for yourself—

But his soul shall go to the generation of his fathers;

They will eternally not see light.

Man in his honor, but who does not understand,

Is like the animals that perish.