Job - Chapter 40 - A Conservative Version
- Moreover LORD answered Job, and said,
- Shall he who quibbles contend with the Almighty? He who argues with God, let him answer it.
- Then Job answered LORD, and said,
- Behold, I am of small account. What shall I answer thee? I lay my hand upon my mouth.
- I have spoken once, and I will not answer, yes, twice, but I will proceed no further.
- Then LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind, and said,
- Gird up thy loins now like a man. I will demand of thee, and declare thou to me.
- Will thou even annul my judgment? Will thou condemn me, that thou may be justified?
- Or have thou an arm like God? And can thou thunder with a voice like him?
- Deck thyself now with excellency and dignity, and array thyself with honor and majesty.
- Pour forth the overflowings of thine anger, and look upon everyone who is proud, and abase him.
- Look on everyone who is proud, [and] bring him low, and tread down the wicked where they stand.
- Hide them in the dust together. Bind their faces in the hidden [place].
- Then I will also confess of thee that thine own right hand can save thee.
- Behold now behemoth, which I made as well as thee. He eats grass as an ox.
- Lo now, his strength is in his loins, and his force is in the muscles of his belly.
- He moves his tail like a cedar. The sinews of his thighs are knit together.
- His bones are [as] tubes of brass. His limbs are like bars of iron.
- He is a beginning of the ways of God. He who made him gives him his sword.
- Surely the mountains bring him forth food, where all the beasts of the field play.
- He lays under the lotus trees, in the covert of the reed, and the fen.
- The lotus trees cover him with their shade. The willows of the brook encompass him about.
- Behold, if a river overflows, he does not tremble. He is confident though a Jordan swell even to his mouth.
- Shall any take him when he is on the watch, or pierce through his nose with a snare?