< Job 40 >
1 Then Yahweh said to Job,
2 “Do you still want to argue with me, the Almighty One? Since you criticize me, (you should be able to answer my questions!/why are you not able to answer my questions?) [RHQ]”
3 Then Job replied to Yahweh,
4 “[Now I realize that] I am completely worthless. So (how could I answer [those questions]?/I could not possibly answer [those questions]!) [RHQ] I will put my hand over my mouth [and not say anything].
5 I have already said more than I should have said, so now I will say nothing more.”
6 Then Yahweh [again] spoke to Job from inside the great windstorm. He said,
7 “I want to ask you some [more] questions. So as men prepare themselves for a difficult task [MET], prepare yourself again to answer some [more] questions.
8 “Are you going to accuse me and say that I am unjust? Are you going to say that what I have done is wrong, in order that you can say that what you have done is right?
9 Are you as powerful [MTY] as I am? Can your voice sound [as loud] as thunder, as mine can?
10 [If you can do that], put on the robes that show that you are glorious and are greatly honored!
11 Show that you are very angry; show that you have the right/authority to humble people who are [very] proud!
12 Humble those proud people [just] by looking at them [angrily] Crush wicked people quickly!
13 Bury them in the ground! Send them to the place where dead people are, where they will not be able to get out!
14 After you do that, I will congratulate/praise you and say that [truly] you can save yourself by your own ability/power.
15 “Think [also] about the huge animals that live near the water. I made you, and I made them also. They eat grass, like oxen do.
16 Their legs/thighs are [very] strong, and the muscles of their bellies are [very] powerful.
17 Their tails are stiff (OR, bend down) like the branches of a cedar tree. The sinews/muscles of their thighs are close together.
18 Their [thigh] bones are [like] tubes [made] of bronze, and the bones of their legs are like bars [made] of iron.
19 They are among the strongest of the animals that I made, and I, who created them, am the only one who can kill them.
20 On the hills grows food [PRS] for them to eat while many [HYP] other wild animals play nearby.
21 They lie down [in the water] under the lotus plants; they hide in [tall] reeds in the swamps.
22 Those huge animals find shade under the lotus plants, and they are surrounded by poplar trees.
23 They are not disturbed by raging/swiftly-flowing rivers; they are not even disturbed/frightened when [rivers like the] Jordan [River] rush over them.
24 No one can [RHQ] catch them by blinding their eyes or by piercing their noses with [the teeth of] a trap!”
