Job 40
Job asks for clarification on Justification
1 ##Job answered Jehovah## and said:
2 The Extremely Mighty God (Eloahh eloahh) should respond to his emotional distress/torment, and even to those correcting/reproving him and to the overpowering/burly-one (shadday) who is contending:
3 ## Job also answered Jehovah ##, and said,
4 For the sake of restoring me, they have esteem me light/trifled with me and instead of me putting my mouth upon my hand; -
5 - like for each one who spoke/rehearsed - I answered twice in addition:
Jehovah finally clarify HIS prerogative right to justify men while human-leader should focus on enforcing orderliness but with moderation.
6 Jehovah answered Job (in a Whirlwind) and said,
7 I will help you to extract/draw out things, because you have enquired to know like a valiant-man. (Ref: Job 38:3)
8 Why should being JUSTIFIED be condemned? And, is that why verdicts will be violated?
9 What about the arms of the main human leader (el)? What about his thundering voice?
10 likewise, his fixtures of people well dressed with majesty and in loftiness with splendor and magnificence:
11 they are to see to it that the proud are humbled, and while crossing his boundary, they should scatter him in anger-
12 they are to see to it that the proud are brought on his knee/subdued and tread down the wicked -
13 - who should be hidden in the dust of the earth - and for him to firmly wrap his face and hide it altogether.
14 they are to hold out hands from their right hand to save.
A Parable to establish restraint and moderation in the legal system of men
15 Hippopotamus/Nile-horse (Behemoth) is created to eat grass like ox;
16 its vigour is from the muscle (shariyr) of its belly. (and these are like gifts for moral/physical strength)
17 but, if its tail (zanab) is like a cedar tree and its tendons/sinew (joining muscle to bone) are intertwined like tree-branches, it will delight in terror.
18 + if its bones are like bronze tubes/channels, its body part/skeleton would have been like casted/forged iron bars +
19 the first human-leader (el) made a sword and approach the road;
20 he was playing and laughing, lifting up the postal-stamp/royal decree to a large-farms and the living creatures/animals on the mountains:
21 And for him to lie down in a hidden place, under a shady-reeds on an acquired swampy area;
22 he was sheltered/fenced-in, under a shady-tree and will revolve around the estate/farmstead with streams in the evening/to mingle and to dive/plunge in.
23 what of, if there is a sudden burst like at the mouth/edge of river Jordan. However, he was in a hurry to trust those who will exploit/oppress him.
24 - - and all eyes receive from MY wrath, because as he was pierced by their trap.