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
1Moreover the LORD answered Job, and said,
2Shall he that cavilleth contend with the Almighty?
He that argueth with God, let him answer it.
3Then Job answered the LORD, and said,
4Behold, I am of small account; what shall I answer thee?
I lay mine hand upon my mouth.
5Once have I spoken, and I will not answer;
Yea twice, but I will proceed no further
6Then the LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind, and said,
7Gird up thy loins now like a man:
I will demand of thee, and declare thou unto me.
8Wilt thou even disannul my judgement?
Wilt thou condemn me, that thou mayest be justified?
9Or hast thou an arm like God?
And canst thou thunder with a voice like him?
10Deck thyself now with excellency and dignity;
And array thyself with honour and majesty.
11Pour forth the overflowings of thine anger:
And look upon every one that is proud, and abase him.
12Look on every one that is proud, and bring him low;
And tread down the wicked where they stand.
13Hide them in the dust together;
Bind their faces in the hidden place.
14Then wilt I also confess of thee
That thine own right hand can save thee
15Behold now behemoth, which I made with thee;
He eateth grass as all ox.
16Lo now, his strength is in his loins,
And his force is in the muscles of his belly.
17He moveth his tail like a cedar:
The sinews of his thighs are knit together.
18His bones are as tubes of brass;
His limbs are like bars of iron.
19He is the chief of the ways of God:
He only that made him can make his sword to approach unto him.
20Surely the mountains bring him forth food;
Where all the beasts of the field do play.
21He lieth under the lotus trees,
In the covert of the reed, and the fen.
22The lotus trees cover him with their shadow;
The willows of the brook compass him about.
23Behold, if a river overflow, he trembleth not:
He is confident, though Jordan swell even to his mouth.
24Shall any take him when he is on the watch,
Or pierce through his nose with a snare?
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