Job Chapter 40 Back Next{40:1} Moreover Yahweh answered
Job,
{40:2} "Shall he who argues contend with the Almighty? He who argues with God, let him answer it."
{40:3} Then Job answered Yahweh,
{40:4} "Behold, I am of small account. What shall I answer you? I lay my hand on my mouth.
{40:5} I have spoken once, and I will not answer; Yes, twice, but I will proceed no further."
{40:6} Then Yahweh answered Job out of the whirlwind,
{40:7} "Now brace yourself like a man. I will question you, and you will answer me.
{40:8} Will you even annul my judgment? Will you condemn me, that you may be justified?
{40:9} Or do you have an arm like God? Can you thunder with a voice like him?
{40:10} "Now deck yourself with excellency and dignity. Array yourself with honor and majesty.
{40:11} Pour out the fury of your anger. Look at everyone who is proud, and bring him low.
{40:12} Look at everyone who is proud, and humble him. Crush the wicked in their place.
{40:13} Hide them in the
dust together. Bind their faces in the hidden place.
{40:14} Then I will also admit to you that your own right hand can save you.
{40:15} "See now,
behemoth, which I made as well as you. He eats
grass as an ox.
{40:16} Look now, his strength is in his thighs. His force is in the muscles of his
belly.
{40:17} He moves his tail like a
cedar. The sinews of his thighs are knit together.
{40:18} His bones are like tubes of
brass. His limbs are like bars of
iron.
{40:19} He is the chief of the ways of God. He who made him gives him his sword.
{40:20} Surely the mountains produce food for him, where all the animals of the
field play.
{40:21} He lies under the lotus trees, in the covert of the reed, and the marsh.
{40:22} The lotuses cover him with their shade. The willows of the
brook surround him.
{40:23} Behold, if a river overflows, he doesn't tremble. He is confident, though the
Jordan swells even to his mouth.
{40:24} Shall any take him when he is on the watch, or pierce through his nose with a snare?
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