Job 41:28
Hebrew Text— Job 41:28The arrow can’t make him flee. Sling stones are like chaff to him.
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Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up against him, and bound him in fetters to carry him to Babylon.
For the arrows of the Almighty are within me. My spirit drinks up their poison. The terrors of God set themselves in array against me.
At the return of the year, king Nebuchadnezzar sent and brought him to Babylon, with the valuable vessels of Yahweh’s house, and made Zedekiah his brother king over Judah and Jerusalem.
There the prisoners are at ease together. They don’t hear the voice of the taskmaster.
Those who see you will stare at you. They will ponder you, saying, “Is this the man who made the earth to tremble, who shook kingdoms,
“Behold, siege ramps have come to the city to take it. The city is given into the hand of the Chaldeans who fight against it, because of the sword, of the famine, and of the pestilence. What you have spoken has happened. Behold, you see it.
Go therefore now, and work; for no straw shall be given to you; yet you shall deliver the same number of bricks!”
“I will heap evils on them. I will spend my arrows on them.
and Jehoiachin the king of Judah went out to the king of Babylon, he, and his mother, and his servants, and his princes, and his officers; and the king of Babylon captured him in the eighth year of his reign.
The archers shot at king Josiah; and the king said to his servants, “Take me away, because I am seriously wounded!”
His archers surround me. He splits my kidneys apart, and does not spare. He pours out my bile on the ground.
He scorns the tumult of the city, neither does he hear the shouting of the driver.
Can you hold the wild ox in the furrow with his harness? Or will he till the valleys after you?
When she lifts up herself on high, she scorns the horse and his rider.
For my soul was grieved. I was embittered in my heart.
My heart is blighted like grass, and withered, for I forget to eat my bread.
For Yahweh says to me, “As the lion and the young lion growling over his prey, if a multitude of shepherds is called together against him, will not be dismayed at their voice, nor abase himself for their noise, so Yahweh of Armies will come down to fight on Mount Zion and on its heights.
‘Why have we fasted,’ they say, ‘and you don’t see? Why have we afflicted our soul, and you don’t notice?’ “Behold, in the day of your fast you find pleasure, and oppress all your laborers.
For Yahweh, the God of Israel, says concerning the houses of this city and concerning the houses of the kings of Judah, which are broken down to make a defense against the mounds and against the sword;
He has caused the shafts of his quiver to enter into my kidneys.
Therefore a battle roar will arise among your people, and all your fortresses will be destroyed, as Shalman destroyed Beth Arbel in the day of battle. The mother was dashed in pieces with her children.
All your fortresses will be like fig trees with the first-ripe figs: if they are shaken, they fall into the mouth of the eater.
Yes, he scoffs at kings, and princes are a derision to him. He laughs at every stronghold, for he builds up an earthen ramp, and takes it.