<p class="poetry">It ranks first among the works of God,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">the One who made itp> <p class="poetry">has furnished it with a sword.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">The likes of it is not on earth,p> <p class="poetry">a creature<n id="1" /> without fear.p>

<p class="poetry">he does great and unsearchable things,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">and wonderful things without number.p>

<p class="poetry">If he snatches away,<n id="1" /> who can turn him back?<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">Who dares to say to him, &#8216;What are you doing?&#8217;p>

<p class="poetry">Which of all these<n id="1" /> does not knowp> <p class="poetry">that the hand of the <sc>Lordsc><n id="2" /> has done<n id="3" /> this,p>

<p class="poetry">Only in two things spare me,<n id="1" /> O God,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">and then I will not hide from your face:p>

<p class="poetry">Since man&#8217;s days<n id="1" /> are determined,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">the number of his months is under your control;<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">you have set his limit<n id="4" /> and he cannot pass it.p>

<p class="poetry">No one denounces his conduct to his face;p> <p class="poetry">no one repays him for what<n id="1" /> he has done.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">then what will I do when God confronts me in judgment;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">when he intervenes,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">how will I respond to him?p>

<p class="poetry">If you sin, how does it affect God?<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">If your transgressions are many,p> <p class="poetry">what does it do to him?<n id="2" />p>

<t /><p class="poetry">&#8220;Look now at Behemoth,<n id="2" /> which I made as<n id="3" /> I made you;p> <p class="poetry">it eats grass like the ox.p>

<p class="bodytext">Now his sons used to go<n id="1" /> and hold<n id="2" /> a feast in the house of each one in turn,<n id="3" /> and they would send and invite<n id="4" /> their three<n id="5" /> sisters to eat and to drink with them.

<p class="bodytext">So they went, Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite, and did just as the <sc>Lordsc> had told them; and the <sc>Lordsc> had respect for Job.<n id="1" />p>

When<n id="1" /> the days of their feasting were finished,<n id="2" /> Job would send<n id="3" /> for them and sanctify<n id="4" /> them; he would get up early<n id="5" /> in the morning and offer burnt offerings according to<n id="6" /> the number of them all. For Job thought, &#8220;Perhaps<n id="7" /> my children<n id="8" /> have sinned and cursed<n id="9" /> God in their hearts.&#8221; This was Job&#8217;s customary practice.<n id="10" />p>

So now take<n id="1" /> seven bulls and seven rams and go to my servant Job and offer a burnt offering for yourselves. And my servant Job will intercede<n id="2" /> for you, and I will respect him,<n id="3" /> so that I do not deal with you<n id="4" /> according to your folly,<n id="5" /> because you have not spoken about me what is right, as my servant Job has.&#8221;<n id="6" />p>