Job 40
1 And the Lord God answered Job, and said,
And the Lord went on, and said to Job:
2 Will [any one] pervert judgment with the Mighty One? and he that reproves God, let him return it for answer.
Shall he that contendeth with God be so easily silenced? surely he that reproveth God, ought to answer him.
3 And Job answered and said to the Lord,
Then Job answered the Lord, and said:
4 Why do I yet plead? being rebuked even while reproving the Lord: hearing such things, whereas I am nothing: and what shall I answer to these [arguments]? I will lay my hand upon my mouth.
What can I answer, who hath spoken inconsiderately? I will lay my hand upon my mouth.
5 I have spoken once; but I will not do so a second time.
One thing I have spoken, which I wish I had not said: and another, to which I will add no more.
6 And the Lord yet again answered and spoke to Job out of the cloud, [saying],
And the Lord answering Job out of the whirlwind, said:
7 Nay, gird up now your loins like a man; and I will ask you, and do you answer me.
Gird up thy loins like a man: I will ask thee, and do thou tell me.
8 Do not set aside my judgment: and do you think that I have dealt with you in any other way, than that you might appear to be righteous?
Wilt thou make void my judgment: and condemn me, that thou mayst be justified?
9 Hast you an arm like the Lord's? or do you thunder with a voice like his?
And hast thou an arm like God, and canst thou thunder with a voice like him?
10 Assume now a lofty bearing and power; and clothe yourself with glory and honor.
Clothe thyself with beauty, and set thyself up on high and be glorious, and put on goodly garments.
11 And send forth messengers with wrath; and lay low every haughty one.
Scatter the proud in thy indignation, and behold every arrogant man, and humble him.
12 Bring down also the proud man; and consume at once the ungodly.
Look on all that are proud, and confound them, and crush the wicked in their place.
13 And hide them together in the earth; and fill their faces with shame.
Hide them in the dust together, and plunge their faces into the pit.
14 [Then] will I confess that your right hand can save [you].
Then I will confess that thy right hand is able to save thee.
15 But now look at the wild beasts with you; they eat grass like oxen.
Behold behemoth whom I made with thee, he eateth grass like an ox.
16 Behold now, his strength is in his loins, and his force is in the navel of his belly.
His strength is in his loins, and his force in the navel of his belly.
17 He sets up his tail like a cypress; and his nerves are wrapped together.
He setteth up his tail like a cedar, the sinews of his testicles are wrapped together.
18 His sides are sides of brass; and his backbone is [as] cast iron.
His bones are like pipes of brass, his gristle like plates of iron.
19 This is the chief of the creation of the Lord; made to be played with by his angels.
He is the beginning of the ways of God, who made him, he will apply his sword.
20 And when he has gone up to a steep mountain, he causes joy to the quadrupeds in the deep.
To him the mountains bring forth grass: there all the beasts of the field shall play.
21 He lies under trees of every kind, by the papyrus, and reed, and bulrush.
He sleepeth under the shadow, in the covert of the reed, and in moist places.
22 And the great trees make a shadow over him with their branches, and [so do] the bushes of the field.
The shades cover his shadow, the willows of the brook shall compass him about.
23 If there should be a flood, he will not perceive it; he trust that Jordan will rush up into his mouth.
Behold, he will drink up a river, and not wonder: and he trusteth that the Jordan may run into his mouth.
24 [Yet one] shall take him in his sight; [one] shall catch [him] with a cord, and pierce his nose.
In his eyes as with a hook he shall take him, and bore through his nostrils with stakes.
