They are solid and cannot be moved.

24 Its chest is solid like a rock, solid like a millstone.

25 "The mighty are afraid when Leviathan rises.

Broken down, they draw back.

26 A sword may strike it but not pierce it.

Neither will a spear, lance, or dart.

27 It considers iron to be like straw and bronze to be like rotten wood.

28 An arrow won't make it run away.

Stones from a sling turn to dust against it.

29 It considers clubs to be like stubble, and it laughs at a rattling javelin.

30 Its underside is like sharp pieces of broken pottery.

It stretches out like a threshinga sledge on the mud.

31 It makes the deep sea boil like a pot.

It stirs up the ocean like a boiling kettle.

32 It leaves a shining path behind it so that the sea appears to have silvery hair.

33 Nothing on land can compare to it.

It was made fearless.

34 It looks down on all high things.

It is king of everyone who is arrogant."

Job Speaks: I Admit That I Was Wrong 421 Then Job answered Yahweh, 2 "I know that you can do everything and that your plans are unstoppable.

3 "You said, 'Who is this that belittles my advice without having any knowledge about it?'

Yes, I have stated things I didn't understand, things too mysterious for me to know.

4 "You said, 'Listen now, and I will speak.

I will ask you, and you will teach me.'

5 I had heard about you with my own ears, but now I have seen you with my own eyes.

6 That is why I take back what I said, and I sit in dust and ashes to show that I am sorry."

Job's Life Is Restored 7 After Yahweh had said those things to Job, Yahweh said to Eliphaz from Teman, "I'm very angry with you and your two friends because you didn't speak what is right about me as my servant Job has done. 8 So take seven young bulls and seven rams. Go to my servant Job, and make a burnt offering for yourselves. My servant Job will pray for you. Then I will accept his prayer not to treat you as godless fools. After all, you didn't speak what is right about me as my servant Job has done."

9 Then Eliphaz of Teman, Bildad of Shuah, and Zophar of Naama went and did what Yahweh had told them to do. And Yahweh accepted Job's prayer.

10 After Job prayed for his friends, Yahweh restored Job's prosperity and gave him twice as much as he had before. 11 Then all his brothers and sisters and everyone who had previously known him came to him. They ate with him at his house, sympathized with him, and comforted him for all the evil Yahweh had brought to him. Each one gave him some moneya and a gold ring.

12 Yahweh blessed the latter years of Job's life more than the earlier years. He had 14,000 sheep and goats, 6,000 camels, 2,000 oxen, and 1,000 donkeys. 13 He also had seven sons and three daughters. 14 He named the first daughter Jemimah, the second Cassia, and the third Keren Happuch. 15 Nowhere in the whole country could be found women who were as beautiful as Job's daughters. Their father gave them and their brothers an inheritance.

16 Job lived 140 years after this. He saw his children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren.b 17 Then at a very old age, Job died.

a 3:8 Or "those who curse the sea."

b 3:8 Hebrew meaning uncertain.

a 5:5 Hebrew meaning of the last two lines uncertain.

a 6:6 Hebrew meaning of "white of an egg" uncertain.

b 6:7 Hebrew meaning of this line uncertain.

c 6:16 Hebrew meaning of this verse uncertain.

d 6:21 Hebrew meaning of this line uncertain.

a 7:15 Or "bones."

b 7:19 English equivalent of this verse difficult.

a 8:6 English equivalent of this line difficult.

a 9:13 Rahab is the name of a demonic creature who opposes God.

a 9:30 Or "with water made from snow."

b 9:33-34 Or "If there were a mediator between us to put his hand on both of us, he would remove his rod from me, and no longer terrify me."

c 9:35 Hebrew meaning of this line uncertain.

d 10:8 Hebrew meaning of this line uncertain.

a 10:16 Hebrew meaning of this verse uncertain.

b 11:6 Hebrew meaning of this line uncertain.

a 11:20 Hebrew meaning of this verse uncertain.

b 12:6 Hebrew meaning of this line uncertain.

a 12:12 Or "Wisdom is with the elderly, and understanding with those who have lived a long time."

a 13:12 Or "proverbs of ashes."

b 13:12 Or "are just answers of clay."

c 13:15 Or "If God would kill me, I would still have hope."

a 14:4 "Unclean" refers to anything that Moses' Teachings say is not presentable to God. "Clean" refers to anything that Moses' Teachings say is presentable to God.

b 14:6 Hebrew meaning uncertain.

a 15:23 Or "He wanders around as if he were food for vultures."

a 15:24 The Hebrew text divides verses 23 and 24 at this point.

b 15:34 Or "those who take bribes."

a 16:13 Or "bile."

b 16:20 Or "my friends mock me."

c 16:22 Verse 22 has been placed before verse 21 to express the complex Hebrew sentence structure more clearly in English.

d 17:4 English equivalent difficult.

a 19:24 The order of the lines has been reversed because the English equivalent is difficult.

b 20:7 Or "he will be dead forever."

a 22:6 Clothes were often used as security deposits for loans in biblical times.

b 22:14 English equivalent difficult.

a 22:29 Or "you will say, 'It's conceit.' But he will save the humble person."

b 23:14 Hebrew meaning uncertain.

a 24:24 Hebrew meaning of this line uncertain.

b 26:7 Or "the north."

c 26:9 Or "the face of the moon."

a 28:6 Hebrew meaning uncertain.

b 28:11 Or "dam up."

c 28:13 Or "how valuable it is."

a 28:17 Hebrew meaning uncertain.

a 29:24 Hebrew meaning uncertain.

b 30:3 Hebrew meaning of this line uncertain.

c 30:4 Or "they use the roots of the broom plant for warmth."

a 30:12 Hebrew meaning of this verse uncertain.

b 30:17 Hebrew meaning uncertain.

a 32:3 Masoretic Text "Job." At times some scribes would alter the text when they thought it was disrespectful to God.

a 33:17 Or "and cover a person's pride."

b 33:26 Or "restores them to his righteousness."

a 35:15 Hebrew meaning of this verse uncertain.

a 36:21 Hebrew meaning of verses 17-21 uncertain. The first two words of verse 18 (in Hebrew) were added to the end of verse 17 to express the complex Hebrew sentence structure more clearly in English.

a 37:7 Or "He seals up every person's hand."

b 37:9 Hebrew meaning uncertain.

a 38:36 Hebrew meaning uncertain.

a 39:12 A threshing floor is an outdoor area where grain is separated from its husks.

b 39:13 Or "Do its wings compare well with the wings and feathers of the stork?"

a 40:15 The Hebrew word Behemoth means "beast, animal."

a 40:24 Or "catch it with a trap."

b 41:1 Job 41:1-34 in English Bibles is Job 40:25-41:26 in the Hebrew Bible.

c 41:1 Hebrew meaning uncertain.

d 41:10 Some Hebrew manuscripts; many Hebrew manuscripts "it."

a 41:30 Threshing is the process of beating stalks to separate them from the grain.

a 42:11 Hebrew meaning uncertain.

b 42:16 Or "grandchildren, four generations."