Job

¹ God then confronted Job directly:

² Are you going to haul me, the Mighty One, into court and press charges?"

³ Job answered:

⁴ I should never have opened my mouth!

⁵ I'm ready to shut up and listen."

⁶ God addressed Job next from the eye of the storm, and this is what he said:

⁷ and I want straight answers.

⁸ Are you calling me a sinner so you can be a saint?

⁹ Can you shout in thunder the way I can?

¹⁰ Let's see what you're made of, what you can do.

¹¹ Target the arrogant and lay them flat.

¹² Stop the wicked in their tracks—make mincemeat of them!

¹³ faceless corpses in an unmarked grave.

¹⁴ you can surely save yourself with no help from me!

¹⁵ Grazing on grass, docile as a cow—

¹⁶ the powerful muscles of his belly.

¹⁷ his huge legs are like beech trees.

¹⁸ every bone in his body hard as steel.

¹⁹ but I still lead him around like a lamb!

²⁰ while field mice frolic in his shadow.

²¹ cools himself in the reedy swamps,

²² as the breeze moves through the willows.

²³ stolid and unperturbed even when the Jordan goes wild.

²⁴ you'd never be able to housebreak him!