God

In My making a cloud its clothing, And thick darkness its swaddling band,

And I measure over it My statute, And place bar and doors,

That I have kept back for a time of distress, For a day of conflict and battle.

Who doth prepare for a raven his provision, When his young ones cry unto God? They wander without food.

Whose house I have made the wilderness, And his dwellings the barren land,

For God hath caused her to forget wisdom, And He hath not given a portion To her in understanding:

And Jehovah doth answer Job, and saith: --

Is the striver with the Mighty instructed? The reprover of God, let him answer it.

And Job answereth Jehovah, and saith: --

Lo, I have been vile, What do I return to Thee? My hand I have placed on my mouth.

And Jehovah answereth Job out of the whirlwind, and saith: --

Gird, I pray thee, as a man, thy loins, I ask thee, and cause thou Me to know.

Dost thou also make void My judgment? Dost thou condemn Me, That thou mayest be righteous?

And an arm like God hast thou? And with a voice like Him dost thou thunder?

And even I--I do praise thee, For thy right hand giveth salvation to thee.

Lo, I pray thee, Behemoth, that I made with thee: Grass as an ox he eateth.

He is a beginning of the ways of God, His Maker bringeth nigh his sword;

None so fierce that he doth awake him, And who is he before Me stationeth himself?

Who hath brought before Me and I repay? Under the whole heavens it is mine.

I do not keep silent concerning his parts, And the matter of might, And the grace of his arrangement.

And Job answereth Jehovah and saith: --

Thou hast known that for all things Thou art able, And not withheld from Thee is any device:

`Hear, I pray thee, and I--I do speak, I ask thee, and cause thou me to know.'

By the hearing of the ear I heard Thee, And now mine eye hath seen Thee.

And it cometh to pass after Jehovah's speaking these words unto Job, that Jehovah saith unto Eliphaz the Temanite, `Burned hath Mine anger against thee, and against thy two friends, because ye have not spoken concerning Me rightly, like My servant Job.