041:016 One is so near to another, that no air can come between them.
041:017 They are joined one to another. They stick together,
so that they can't be pulled apart.
041:018 His sneezing flashes out light. His eyes are like the eyelids
of the morning.
041:019 Out of his mouth go burning torches. Sparks of fire leap forth.
041:020 Out of his nostrils a smoke goes, as of a boiling pot over
a fire of reeds.
041:021 His breath kindles coals. A flame goes forth from his mouth.
041:022 There is strength in his neck. Terror dances before him.
041:023 The flakes of his flesh are joined together. They are firm on him.
They can't be moved.
041:024 His heart is as firm as a stone, yes, firm as the lower millstone.
041:025 When he raises himself up, the mighty are afraid.
They retreat before his thrashing.
041:026 If one attacks him with the sword, it can't prevail;
nor the spear, the dart, nor the pointed shaft.
041:027 He counts iron as straw; and brass as rotten wood.
041:028 The arrow can't make him flee. Sling stones are like chaff to him.
041:029 Clubs are counted as stubble. He laughs at the rushing
of the javelin.
041:030 His undersides are like sharp potsherds, leaving a trail
in the mud like a threshing sledge.
041:031 He makes the deep to boil like a pot. He makes the sea
like a pot of ointment.
041:032 He makes a path shine after him. One would think the deep
had white hair.
041:033 On earth there is not his equal, that is made without fear.
041:034 He sees everything that is high. He is king over all
the sons of pride."
042:001 Then Job answered Yahweh,
042:002 "I know that you can do all things, and that no purpose of yours
can be restrained.
042:003 You asked, 'Who is this who hides counsel without knowledge?'
therefore I have uttered that which I did not understand,
things too wonderful for me, which I didn't know.
042:004 You said, 'Listen, now, and I will speak; I will question you,
and you will answer me.'
042:005 I had heard of you by the hearing of the ear, but now my
eye sees you.
042:006 Therefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes."
042:007 It was so, that after Yahweh had spoken these words
to Job, Yahweh said to Eliphaz the Temanite, "My wrath
is kindled against you, and against your two friends;
for you have not spoken of me the thing that is right,
as my servant Job has.
042:008 Now therefore, take to yourselves seven bulls 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 I will accept him,
that I not deal with you according to your folly.
For you have not spoken of me the thing that is right,
as my servant Job has."
042:009 So Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar
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