Job 40
1 And the Lord God answered Job, and said,
Moreover Jehovah spake to Job, and said:
2 Will [any one] pervert judgment with the Mighty One? and he that reproves God, let him return it for answer.
Will the censurer of the Almighty contend with him? Will the reprover of God answer?
3 And Job answered and said to the Lord,
Then Job answered Jehovah, 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.
Behold, I am vile! what can I answer thee? I will lay my hand upon my mouth.
5 I have spoken once; but I will not do so a second time.
Once have I spoken, but I will not speak again; Yea, twice, but I will say no more.
6 And the Lord yet again answered and spoke to Job out of the cloud, [saying],
Then spake Jehovah to Job out of the whirlwind, and said:
7 Nay, gird up now your loins like a man; and I will ask you, and do you answer me.
Gird up now thy loins like a man! I will ask thee, and do thou instruct 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 even disannul my right? Wilt thou condemn me, that thou mayst be righteous?
9 Hast you an arm like the Lord's? or do you thunder with a voice like his?
Hast thou an arm like God's? Or canst thou thunder with thy voice like him?
10 Assume now a lofty bearing and power; and clothe yourself with glory and honor.
Deck thyself with grandeur and majesty, And array thyself in splendor and glory!
11 And send forth messengers with wrath; and lay low every haughty one.
Send forth the fury of thy wrath! Look upon every proud one, and abase him!
12 Bring down also the proud man; and consume at once the ungodly.
Look upon every proud one, and bring him low; Yea, tread down 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; Shut up their faces in darkness!
14 [Then] will I confess that your right hand can save [you].
Then, indeed, will I give thee the praise, That thine own right hand can save thee.
15 But now look at the wild beasts with you; they eat grass like oxen.
Behold the river-horse, which I have made as well as thyself; He feedeth on grass like the ox.
16 Behold now, his strength is in his loins, and his force is in the navel of his belly.
Behold, what strength is in his loins! And what force in the muscles of his belly!
17 He sets up his tail like a cypress; and his nerves are wrapped together.
He bendeth his tail, like the cedar, And the sinews of his thighs are twisted together.
18 His sides are sides of brass; and his backbone is [as] cast iron.
His bones are pipes of brass, And his limbs are bars of iron.
19 This is the chief of the creation of the Lord; made to be played with by his angels.
He is chief among the works of God; He that made him gave him his sword.
20 And when he has gone up to a steep mountain, he causes joy to the quadrupeds in the deep.
For the mountains supply him with food, Where all the beasts of the field play.
21 He lies under trees of every kind, by the papyrus, and reed, and bulrush.
He lieth down under the lote-plants, In the covert of reeds, and in the fens.
22 And the great trees make a shadow over him with their branches, and [so do] the bushes of the field.
The lote-plants cover him with their shadow, And the willows of the brook 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.
Lo! the stream overfloweth, but he starteth not; He is unmoved though Jordan rush forth even to his mouth.
24 [Yet one] shall take him in his sight; [one] shall catch [him] with a cord, and pierce his nose.
Can one take him before his eyes, Or pierce his nose with hooks?
