¹ And the Lord said to Noah, Take all your family and go into the ark, for you only in this generation have I seen to be upright.

² Of every clean beast you will take seven males and seven females, and of the beasts which are not clean, two, the male and his female;

³ And of the birds of the air, seven males and seven females, so that their seed may still be living on the face of the earth.

⁴ For after seven days I will send rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights, for the destruction of every living thing which I have made on the face of the earth.

⁵ And Noah did everything which the Lord said he was to do.

⁶ And Noah was six hundred years old when the waters came flowing over all the earth.

⁷ And Noah, with his sons and his wife and his sons' wives, went into the ark because of the flowing of the waters.

⁸ Of clean beasts, and of beasts which are not clean, and of birds, and of everything which goes on the earth,

⁹ In twos, male and female, they went into the ark with Noah, as God had said.

¹⁰ And after the seven days, the waters came over all the earth.

¹¹ In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, all the fountains of the great deep came bursting through, and the windows of heaven were open;

¹² And rain came down on the earth for forty days and forty nights.

¹³ On the same day Noah, with Shem, Ham, and Japheth, his sons, and his wife and his sons' wives, went into the ark;

¹⁴ And with them, every sort of beast and cattle, and every sort of thing which goes on the earth, and every sort of bird.

¹⁵ They went with Noah into the ark, two and two of all flesh in which is the breath of life.

¹⁶ Male and female of all flesh went in, as God had said, and the ark was shut by the Lord.

¹⁷ And for forty days the waters were over all the earth; and the waters were increased so that the ark was lifted up high over the earth.

¹⁸ And the waters overcame everything and were increased greatly on the earth, and the ark was resting on the face of the waters.

¹⁹ And the waters overcame everything on the earth; and all the mountains under heaven were covered.

²⁰ The waters went fifteen cubits higher, till all the mountains were covered.

²¹ And destruction came on every living thing moving on the earth, birds and cattle and beasts and everything which went on the earth, and every man.

²² Everything on the dry land, in which was the breath of life, came to its end.

²³ Every living thing on the face of all the earth, man and cattle and things moving on the face of the earth, and birds of the air, came to destruction: only Noah and those who were with him in the ark, were kept from death.

²⁴ And the waters were over the earth a hundred and fifty days.

¹ And Job made answer and said,

² No doubt you have knowledge, and wisdom will come to an end with you.

³ But I have a mind as well as you; I am equal to you: yes, who has not knowledge of such things as these?

⁴ It seems that I am to be as one who is a cause of laughing to his neighbour, one who makes his prayer to God and is answered! the upright man who has done no wrong is to be made sport of!

⁵ In the thought of him who is in comfort there is no respect for one who is in trouble; such is the fate of those whose feet are slipping.

⁶ There is wealth in the tents of those who make destruction, and those by whom God is moved to wrath are safe; even those whose god is their strength.

⁷ But put now a question to the beasts, and get teaching from them; or to the birds of the heaven, and they will make it clear to you;

⁸ Or to the things which go flat on the earth, and they will give you wisdom; and the fishes of the sea will give you news of it.

⁹ Who does not see by all these that the hand of the Lord has done this?

¹⁰ In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, and the breath of all flesh of man.

¹¹ Are not words tested by the ear, even as food is tasted by the mouth?

¹² Old men have wisdom, and a long life gives knowledge.

¹³ With him there is wisdom and strength; power and knowledge are his.

¹⁴ Truly, there is no building up of what is pulled down by him; when a man is shut up by him, no one may let him loose.

¹⁵ Truly, he keeps back the waters and they are dry; he sends them out and the earth is overturned.

¹⁶ With him are strength and wise designs; he who is guided into error, together with his guide, are in his hands;

¹⁷ He takes away the wisdom of the wise guides, and makes judges foolish;

¹⁸ He undoes the chains of kings, and puts his band on them;

¹⁹ He makes priests prisoners, overturning those in safe positions;

²⁰ He makes the words of responsible persons without effect, and takes away the good sense of the old;

²¹ He puts shame on chiefs, and takes away the power of the strong;

²² Uncovering deep things out of the dark, and making the deep shade bright;

²³ Increasing nations, and sending destruction on them; making wide the lands of peoples, and then giving them up.

²⁴ He takes away the wisdom of the rulers of the earth, and sends them wandering in a waste where there is no way.

²⁵ They go feeling about in the dark without light, wandering without help like those overcome with wine.