Palm Sunday: Job 38-41
Excerpts from Job 38
Then the Lord answered Job out of the whirlwind: “Who is this who darkens counsel with words without knowledge? Get ready for a difficult task like a man; I will question you and you will inform me.
“Where were you when I laid the foundation of the earth? Tell me, if you possess understanding. Who set its measurements—if you know— or who stretched a measuring line across it? On what were its bases set,
or who laid its cornerstone— when the morning stars sang in chorus, and all the sons of God shouted for joy? Can you lead out
the constellations in their seasons, or guide the Bear with its cubs? Do you know the laws of the heavens, or can you set up their rule over the earth?
Excerpts from Job 40
“Get ready for a difficult task like a man. I will question you and you will inform me. Would you indeed annul my justice? Would you declare me guilty so that you might be right? Do you have an arm as powerful as God’s,
and can you thunder with a voice like his? Adorn yourself, then, with majesty and excellency, and clothe yourself with glory and honor. Scatter abroad the abundance of your anger. Look at every proud man and bring him low; Look at every proud man and abase him; crush the wicked on the spot.
Hide them in the dust together, imprison them in the grave. Then I myself will acknowledge to you
that your own right hand can save you. “Look now at Behemoth, which I made as I made you; it eats grass like the ox. Look at its strength in its loins, and its power in the muscles of its belly. If the river rages, it is not disturbed,
it is secure, though the Jordan should surge up to its mouth.
Excerpts from Job 41
“Can you pull in Leviathan with a hook, and tie down its tongue with a rope? Can you put a cord through its nose, or pierce its jaw with a hook? Will it make numerous supplications to you,
will it speak to you with tender words? Will it make a pact with you, so you could take it as your slave for life? If you lay your hand on it,
you will remember the fight. Do not do it again! See, his expectation is wrong, he is laid low even at the sight of it. Is it not fierce when it is awakened? Who is he, then, who can stand before it? Who has confronted me that I should repay? Everything under heaven belongs to me! I will not keep silent about its limbs, and the extent of its might, and the grace of its arrangement.