Job 40
1 Yahweh continued to speak to Job; he said,
And YHWH answers Job and says:
2 “Should anyone who wishes to criticize try to correct the Almighty? He who argues with God, let him answer.”
“Is the striver with the Mighty instructed? The reprover of God, let him answer it.”
3 Then Job answered Yahweh and said,
And Job answers YHWH and says:
4 “See, I am insignificant; how can I answer you? I put my hand over my mouth.
“Behold, I have been vile, What do I return to You? I have placed my hand on my mouth.
5 I spoke once, and I will not answer; indeed, twice, but I will proceed no further.”
I have spoken once, and I do not answer, And twice, and I do not add.”
6 Then Yahweh answered Job out of a fierce storm and said,
And YHWH answers Job out of the whirlwind and says:
7 “Now gird up your loins like a man, for I will ask you questions, and you must answer me.
“Now gird your loins as a man, I ask you, and you cause Me to know.
8 Will you actually say that I am unjust? Will you condemn me so you may claim you are right?
Do you also make My judgment void? Do you condemn Me, That you may be righteous?
9 Do you have an arm like God's? Can you thunder with a voice like him?
And do you have an arm like God? And do you thunder with a voice like His?
10 Now clothe yourself in glory and dignity; array yourself in honor and majesty.
Now put on excellence and loftiness, Indeed, put on splendor and beauty.
11 Scatter around the excess of your anger; look at everyone who is proud and bring him down.
Scatter abroad the wrath of your anger, And see every proud one, and make him low.
12 Look at everyone who is proud and bring him low; trample down wicked people where they stand.
See every proud one—humble him, And tread down the wicked in their place.
13 Bury them in the earth together; imprison their faces in the hidden place.
Hide them in the dust together, Bind their faces in secret.
14 Then will I also acknowledge about you that your own right hand can save you.
And even I praise you, For your right hand gives salvation to you.
15 Look now at the behemoth, which I made when I made you; he eats grass like an ox.
Now behold, behemoth, That I made with you: He eats grass as an ox.
16 See now, his strength is in his loins; his power is in his belly's muscles.
Now behold, his power [is] in his loins, And his strength in the muscles of his belly.
17 He makes his tail like a cedar; the sinews of his thighs are joined together.
He bends his tail as a cedar, The sinews of his thighs are wrapped together,
18 His bones are like tubes of bronze; his legs are like bars of iron.
His bones [are] tubes of bronze, His bones [are] as a bar of iron.
19 He is the chief of the creatures of God. Only God, who made him, can defeat him.
He [is] a beginning of the ways of God, His Maker [alone] brings His sword near;
20 For the hills provide him with food; the beasts of the field play nearby.
For mountains bear food for him, And all the beasts of the field play there.
21 He lies under the lotus plants in the shelter of the reeds, in the marshes.
He lies down under shades, In a secret place of reed and marsh.
22 The lotus plants cover him with their shade; the willows of the brook are all around him.
Shades cover him, [with] their shadow, Willows of the brook cover him.
23 See, if a river floods its banks, he does not tremble; he is confident, though the Jordan should surge up to his mouth.
Behold, a flood oppresses—he does not hurry, He is confident though Jordan Comes forth to his mouth.
24 Can anyone capture him with a hook, or pierce his nose through with a snare?
Does [one] take him by his eyes? Does [one] pierce the nose with snares?”
