Job 40
1 Moreover Jehovah spake to Job, and said:
And YHWH answers Job and says:
2 Will the censurer of the Almighty contend with him? Will the reprover of God answer?
“Is the striver with the Mighty instructed? The reprover of God, let him answer it.”
3 Then Job answered Jehovah, and said:
And Job answers YHWH and says:
4 Behold, I am vile! what can I answer thee? I will lay my hand upon my mouth.
“Behold, I have been vile, What do I return to You? I have placed my hand on my mouth.
5 Once have I spoken, but I will not speak again; Yea, twice, but I will say no more.
I have spoken once, and I do not answer, And twice, and I do not add.”
6 Then spake Jehovah to Job out of the whirlwind, and said:
And YHWH answers Job out of the whirlwind and says:
7 Gird up now thy loins like a man! I will ask thee, and do thou instruct me!
“Now gird your loins as a man, I ask you, and you cause Me to know.
8 Wilt thou even disannul my right? Wilt thou condemn me, that thou mayst be righteous?
Do you also make My judgment void? Do you condemn Me, That you may be righteous?
9 Hast thou an arm like God's? Or canst thou thunder with thy voice like him?
And do you have an arm like God? And do you thunder with a voice like His?
10 Deck thyself with grandeur and majesty, And array thyself in splendor and glory!
Now put on excellence and loftiness, Indeed, put on splendor and beauty.
11 Send forth the fury of thy wrath! Look upon every proud one, and abase him!
Scatter abroad the wrath of your anger, And see every proud one, and make him low.
12 Look upon every proud one, and bring him low; Yea, tread down the wicked in their place!
See every proud one—humble him, And tread down the wicked in their place.
13 Hide them in the dust together; Shut up their faces in darkness!
Hide them in the dust together, Bind their faces in secret.
14 Then, indeed, will I give thee the praise, That thine own right hand can save thee.
And even I praise you, For your right hand gives salvation to you.
15 Behold the river-horse, which I have made as well as thyself; He feedeth on grass like the ox.
Now behold, behemoth, That I made with you: He eats grass as an ox.
16 Behold, what strength is in his loins! And what force in the muscles of his belly!
Now behold, his power [is] in his loins, And his strength in the muscles of his belly.
17 He bendeth his tail, like the cedar, And the sinews of his thighs are twisted together.
He bends his tail as a cedar, The sinews of his thighs are wrapped together,
18 His bones are pipes of brass, And his limbs are bars of iron.
His bones [are] tubes of bronze, His bones [are] as a bar of iron.
19 He is chief among the works of God; He that made him gave him his sword.
He [is] a beginning of the ways of God, His Maker [alone] brings His sword near;
20 For the mountains supply him with food, Where all the beasts of the field play.
For mountains bear food for him, And all the beasts of the field play there.
21 He lieth down under the lote-plants, In the covert of reeds, and in the fens.
He lies down under shades, In a secret place of reed and marsh.
22 The lote-plants cover him with their shadow, And the willows of the brook compass him about.
Shades cover him, [with] their shadow, Willows of the brook cover him.
23 Lo! the stream overfloweth, but he starteth not; He is unmoved though Jordan rush forth even to his mouth.
Behold, a flood oppresses—he does not hurry, He is confident though Jordan Comes forth to his mouth.
24 Can one take him before his eyes, Or pierce his nose with hooks?
Does [one] take him by his eyes? Does [one] pierce the nose with snares?”
