< Job 40 >
1 and to answer LORD [obj] Job and to say
And the Lord God answered Job, and said,
2 to contend with Almighty faultfinder to rebuke god to answer her
Will [any one] pervert judgment with the Mighty One? and he that reproves God, let him return it for answer.
3 and to answer Job [obj] LORD and to say
And Job answered and said to the Lord,
4 look! to lighten what? to return: reply you hand my to set: put upon lip my
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.
5 one to speak: speak and not to answer and two and not to add: again
I have spoken once; but I will not do so a second time.
6 and to answer LORD [obj] Job (from *Q(K)*) (tempest *Q(k)*) and to say
And the Lord yet again answered and spoke to Job out of the cloud, [saying],
7 to gird please like/as great man loin your to ask you and to know me
Nay, gird up now thy loins like a man; and I will ask thee, and do thou answer me.
8 also to break justice: judgement my be wicked me because to justify
Do not set aside my judgment: and dost thou think that I have dealt with thee in any other way, than that thou mightest appear to be righteous?
9 and if: surely yes arm like/as God to/for you and in/on/with voice like him to thunder
Hast thou an arm like the Lord's? or dost thou thunder with a voice like his?
10 to adorn please pride and height and splendor and glory to clothe
Assume now a lofty bearing and power; and clothe thyself with glory and honour.
11 to scatter fury face: anger your and to see: see all proud and to abase him
And send forth messengers with wrath; and lay low every haughty one.
12 to see: see all proud be humble him and to tread down wicked underneath: stand them
Bring down also the proud man; and consume at once the ungodly.
13 to hide them in/on/with dust unitedness face their to saddle/tie in/on/with to hide
And hide them together in the earth; and fill their faces with shame.
14 and also I to give thanks you for to save to/for you right your
[Then] will I confess that thy right hand can save [thee].
15 behold please Behemoth which to make with you grass like/as cattle to eat
But now look at the wild beasts with thee; they eat grass like oxen.
16 behold please strength his in/on/with loin his and strength his in/on/with muscle belly: abdomen his
Behold now, his strength is in his loins, and his force is in the navel of his belly.
17 to sway tail his like cedar sinew (thigh his *Q(K)*) to intertwine
He sets up his tail like a cypress; and his nerves are wrapped together.
18 bone his channel bronze bone his like/as rod iron
His sides are sides of brass; and his backbone is [as] cast iron.
19 he/she/it first: beginning way: conduct God [the] to make him to approach: bring sword his
This is the chief of the creation of the Lord; made to be played with by his angels.
20 for produce mountain: mount to lift: aid to/for him and all living thing [the] land: wildlife to laugh there
And when he has gone up to a steep mountain, he causes joy to the quadrupeds in the deep.
21 underneath: under lotus to lie down: lay down in/on/with secrecy branch: stem and swamp
He lies under trees of every kind, by the papyrus, and reed, and bulrush.
22 to cover him lotus shadow his to turn: surround him willow torrent: river
And the great trees make a shadow over him with their branches, and [so do] the bushes of the field.
23 look! to oppress river not to hurry to trust for to burst/come out Jordan to(wards) lip his
If there should be a flood, he will not perceive it; he trust that Jordan will rush up into his mouth.
24 in/on/with eye his to take: take him in/on/with snare to pierce face: nose
[Yet one] shall take him in his sight; [one] shall catch [him] with a cord, and pierce his nose.