The Koine Bible

And the Lord God answered Job and said

Will he who contends with the Almighty instruct him? He who reproves God, let him answer it.

Then Job answered and says to the Lord

Why then am I still being judged, being admonished and hearing such things as a rebuke of the Lord, though I am nothing? But what answer shall I give to these things? I will put my hand upon my mouth.

Once I have spoken, but upon the second I will not add.

Then the Lord answered and said to Job out of the cloud to Job

No, but gird your loins like a man; and I will ask you, and you answer me.

Do not reject my judgment; and do you suppose that I have dealt with you otherwise, except that you might be shown to be righteous?

Or do you have an arm like the Lord, or do you thunder against him with a voice?

Take up now height and power; and clothe yourself with glory and honor.

Send forth, then, messengers in wrath, and humble every arrogant man.

Look on every proud man and humble him, and crush the wicked immediately

Hide them also in the dust together outside, and fill their faces with dishonor.

I will confess then that your right hand is able to save.

But indeed, behold, the beasts by you eat grass like oxen.

Behold now, his strength is in his loin, and his power in the navel of his belly.

He set his tail like a cypress; and his sinews are intertwined.

His ribs are bronze ribs, and his back is cast iron

It is the beginning of the creation of the Lord, made to be mocked by his angels.

And having come upon a precipitous mountain, he made sport for the quadrupeds in Tartarus

Under every kind of tree it lies down, beside papyrus and reed and bulrush.

The great trees overshadow him, along with reeds and branches of the agnus-tree.

Though a flood should arise, he will not be alarmed; he trusts that the Jordan will dash against his mouth.

In his eye he will take it; as it twists, it will pierce the nostril

Will you draw out the dragon with a hook, and put a rope about his nose?

Can you put a ring in his nose, and bore through his lip with an earring?

Will he speak to you with supplication, with entreaty, softly?

And he shall make a covenant with you, and you shall take him as an eternal servant.

Will you play with it as with a bird, or will you bind it as a sparrow for a child?

Nations feast on him; and clans of Phoenicians divide him up.

But every floating thing gathered together would not be able to lift one hide of his tail, and in fishermen’s boats his head

And you shall lay a hand on him, remembering the war that is taking place in his body, and let it no longer happen.