Job 40
Job: What Can I Say?
1Then the Lord said to Job, 2“Will the faultfinder acontend with the Almighty?Let him who breproves God answer it.”
3Then Job answered the Lord and said, 4“Behold, I am insignificant; what can I reply to You?
I clay my hand on my mouth.
5“Once I have spoken, and dI will not answer;
Even twice, and I will add nothing more.”
God Questions Job
6Then the eLord answered Job out of the storm and said, 7“Now fgird up your loins like a man;I will gask you, and you instruct Me.
8“Will you really hannul My judgment?
Will you icondemn Me jthat you may be justified?
9“Or do you have an arm like God,
And can you kthunder with a voice like His?
10 l“Adorn yourself with eminence and dignity,
And clothe yourself with honor and majesty.
11“Pour out mthe overflowings of your anger,
And look on everyone who is nproud, and make him low.
12“Look on everyone who is proud, and ohumble him,
And ptread down the wicked ▼
▼ Lit under them
where they stand.13 r“Hide them in the dust together;
Bind ▼
▼ Or their faces
them in the hidden place.14“Then I will also ▼
▼ Or praise you
confess to you,That your own right hand can save you.
God’s Power Shown in Creatures
15“Behold now, ▼▼ Or the hippopotamus
Behemoth, which vI made ▼▼ Lit with
as well as you;He eats grass like an ox.
16“Behold now, his strength in his loins
And his power in the muscles of his belly.
17“He bends his tail like a cedar;
The sinews of his thighs are knit together.
18“His bones are tubes of bronze;
His ▼
▼ Lit bones
limbs are like bars of iron.19“He is the yfirst of the ways of God;
Let his zmaker bring near his sword.
20“Surely the mountains aabring him food,
And all the beasts of the field abplay there.
21“Under the lotus plants he lies down,
In the covert of the reeds and the marsh.
22“The lotus plants cover him with ▼
▼ Lit his shade
shade;The willows of the brook surround him.
23“If a river ▼
▼ Or oppresses
rages, he is not alarmed;He is confident, though the aeJordan rushes to his mouth.
24“Can anyone capture him ▼
▼ Lit in his eyes
when he is on watch,With ▼
▼ Lit snares
barbs can anyone pierce his nose?
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