Job 40
40
The LORD speaks and Job answers
1The LORD continued to respond to Job:
2Will the one who disputes with the Almighty correct him?
God’s instructor must answer him.
3Job responded to the LORD:
4Look, I’m of little worth. What can I answer you?
I’ll put my hand over my mouth.
5I have spoken once, I won’t answer;
twice, I won’t do it again.
A challenge from the LORD
6The LORD answered Job from the whirlwind:
7Prepare yourself like a man;
I will interrogate you, and you will respond to me.
8Would you question my justice,
deem me guilty so you can be innocent?
9Or do you have an arm like God;
can you thunder with a voice like him?
10Adorn yourself with splendor and majesty;
clothe yourself with honor and esteem.
11Unleash your raging anger;
look on all the proud and humble them.
12Look on all the proud and debase them;
trample the wicked in their place.
13Hide them together in the dust;
bind their faces in a hidden place.
14Then I, even I, will praise you,
for your strong hand has delivered you.
Behemoth
15Look at Behemoth, whom I made along with you;
he eats grass like cattle.
16Look, his strength is in his thighs,
his power in stomach muscles.
17He stiffens his tail like a cedar;
the tendons in his thighs are tightly woven.
18His bones are like bronze tubes,
his limbs like iron bars.
19He is the first of God’s acts;
only his maker can come near him with a sword.
20Indeed, the hills bring him tribute,
places where all the wild animals play.
21He lies under the lotuses,
under the cover of reed and marsh.
22The lotuses screen him with shade;
poplars of the stream surround him.
23If the river surges, he doesn’t hurry;
he is confident even though the Jordan gushes into his mouth.
24Can he be seized by his eyes?
Can anyone pierce his nose by hooks?
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Job 40
40
1 But the Lord, answering Job out of the whirlwind, said:
2 Gird your waist like a man. I will question you, and you must answer me.
3 Will you make my judgment null and void; and will you condemn me so that you may be justified?
4 And do you have an arm like God, or a voice like thunder?
5 Envelop yourself with splendor, and raise yourself up on high, and be glorious, and put on splendid garments.
6 Scatter the arrogant with your wrath, and, when you see all the arrogant, humble them.
7 Look down upon each of the arrogant and confound them, and crush the impious in their place.
8 Hide them in the dust together and plunge their faces into the pit.
9 Then I will confess that your right hand is able to save you.
10 Behold, the behemoth, whom I created along with you, eats hay like an ox.
11 His strength is in his lower back, and his power is in the center of his abdomen.
12 He draws up his tail like a cedar; the sinews of his thighs have been drawn together.
13 His bones are like pipes of brass; his cartilage is like plates of iron.
14 He is the beginning of the ways of God, who made him; he will use him as his sword.
15 The mountains bring forth grass for him; all the beasts of the field will play there.
16 He sleeps in the shadows, under the cover of branches, and in moist places.
17 The shadows cover his shadow; the willows of the brook will encircle him.
18 Behold, he will drink a river and not be amazed, and he has confidence that the Jordan could flow into his mouth.
19 He will seize him through his eyes, as if with a hook, and he will bore through his nostrils, as if with stakes.
20 Can you draw out the leviathan with a hook, and can you bind his tongue with a cord?
21 Can you place a ring in his nose, or bore through his jaw with an arm band?
22 Will he offer many prayers to you, or speak to you quietly?
23 Will he form a covenant with you, and will you accept him as a servant forever?
24 Will you play with him as with a bird, or tether him for your handmaids?
25 Will your friends cut him into pieces, will dealers distribute him?
26 Will you fill up bags with his hide, and let his head be used as a home for fishes?
27 Place your hand upon him; remember the battle and speak no more.
28 Behold, his hope will fail him, and in the sight of all, he will be thrown down.
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