Job 40
1 Moreover Jehovah spake to Job, and said:
Moreouer ye Lord spake vnto Iob, and said,
2 Will the censurer of the Almighty contend with him? Will the reprover of God answer?
Is this to learne to striue with the Almightie? he that reprooueth God, let him answere to it.
3 Then Job answered Jehovah, and said:
Then Iob answered the Lord, saying,
4 Behold, I am vile! what can I answer thee? I will lay my hand upon my mouth.
Beholde, I am vile: what shall I answere thee? I will lay mine hand vpon my mouth.
5 Once have I spoken, but I will not speak again; Yea, twice, but I will say no more.
Once haue I spoken, but I will answere no more, yea twise, but I will proceede no further.
6 Then spake Jehovah to Job out of the whirlwind, and said:
Againe the Lord answered Iob out of the whirle winde, and said,
7 Gird up now thy loins like a man! I will ask thee, and do thou instruct me!
Girde vp now thy loynes like a man: I will demaunde of thee, and declare thou vnto me.
8 Wilt thou even disannul my right? Wilt thou condemn me, that thou mayst be righteous?
Wilt thou disanul my iudgement? or wilt thou condemne me, that thou mayst be iustified?
9 Hast thou an arm like God's? Or canst thou thunder with thy voice like him?
Or hast thou an arme like God? or doest thou thunder with a voyce like him?
10 Deck thyself with grandeur and majesty, And array thyself in splendor and glory!
Decke thy selfe now with maiestie and excellencie, and aray thy selfe with beautie and glory.
11 Send forth the fury of thy wrath! Look upon every proud one, and abase him!
Cast abroad the indignation of thy wrath, and beholde euery one that is proude, and abase him.
12 Look upon every proud one, and bring him low; Yea, tread down the wicked in their place!
Looke on euery one that is arrogant, and bring him lowe: and destroy the wicked in their place.
13 Hide them in the dust together; Shut up their faces in darkness!
Hide them in the dust together, and binde their faces in a secret place.
14 Then, indeed, will I give thee the praise, That thine own right hand can save thee.
Then will I confesse vnto thee also, that thy right hand can saue thee.
15 Behold the river-horse, which I have made as well as thyself; He feedeth on grass like the ox.
Behold now Behemoth (whom I made with thee) which eateth grasse as an oxe.
16 Behold, what strength is in his loins! And what force in the muscles of his belly!
Behold now, his strength is in his loynes, and his force is in the nauil of his belly.
17 He bendeth his tail, like the cedar, And the sinews of his thighs are twisted together.
When hee taketh pleasure, his taile is like a cedar: the sinews of his stones are wrapt together.
18 His bones are pipes of brass, And his limbs are bars of iron.
His bones are like staues of brasse, and his small bones like staues of yron.
19 He is chief among the works of God; He that made him gave him his sword.
He is the chiefe of the wayes of God: he that made him, will make his sworde to approch vnto him.
20 For the mountains supply him with food, Where all the beasts of the field play.
Surely the mountaines bring him foorth grasse, where all the beastes of the fielde play.
21 He lieth down under the lote-plants, In the covert of reeds, and in the fens.
Lyeth hee vnder the trees in the couert of the reede and fennes?
22 The lote-plants cover him with their shadow, And the willows of the brook compass him about.
Can the trees couer him with their shadow? or can the willowes of the riuer compasse him about?
23 Lo! the stream overfloweth, but he starteth not; He is unmoved though Jordan rush forth even to his mouth.
Behold, he spoyleth the riuer, and hasteth not: he trusteth that he can draw vp Iorden into his mouth.
24 Can one take him before his eyes, Or pierce his nose with hooks?
Hee taketh it with his eyes, and thrusteth his nose through whatsoeuer meeteth him.
