Job 40
1 And the Lord God answered Job, and said,
And YHWH answers Job and says:
2 Will [any one] pervert judgment with the Mighty One? and he that reproves God, let him return it for answer.
“Is the striver with the Mighty instructed? The reprover of God, let him answer it.”
3 And Job answered and said to the Lord,
And Job answers YHWH and says:
4 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.
“Behold, I have been vile, What do I return to You? I have placed my hand on my mouth.
5 I have spoken once; but I will not do so a second time.
I have spoken once, and I do not answer, And twice, and I do not add.”
6 And the Lord yet again answered and spoke to Job out of the cloud, [saying],
And YHWH answers Job out of the whirlwind and says:
7 Nay, gird up now your loins like a man; and I will ask you, and do you answer me.
“Now gird your loins as a man, I ask you, and you cause Me to know.
8 Do not set aside my judgment: and do you think that I have dealt with you in any other way, than that you might appear to be righteous?
Do you also make My judgment void? Do you condemn Me, That you may be righteous?
9 Hast you an arm like the Lord's? or do you thunder with a voice like his?
And do you have an arm like God? And do you thunder with a voice like His?
10 Assume now a lofty bearing and power; and clothe yourself with glory and honor.
Now put on excellence and loftiness, Indeed, put on splendor and beauty.
11 And send forth messengers with wrath; and lay low every haughty one.
Scatter abroad the wrath of your anger, And see every proud one, and make him low.
12 Bring down also the proud man; and consume at once the ungodly.
See every proud one—humble him, And tread down the wicked in their place.
13 And hide them together in the earth; and fill their faces with shame.
Hide them in the dust together, Bind their faces in secret.
14 [Then] will I confess that your right hand can save [you].
And even I praise you, For your right hand gives salvation to you.
15 But now look at the wild beasts with you; they eat grass like oxen.
Now behold, behemoth, That I made with you: He eats grass as an ox.
16 Behold now, his strength is in his loins, and his force is in the navel of his belly.
Now behold, his power [is] in his loins, And his strength in the muscles of his belly.
17 He sets up his tail like a cypress; and his nerves are wrapped together.
He bends his tail as a cedar, The sinews of his thighs are wrapped together,
18 His sides are sides of brass; and his backbone is [as] cast iron.
His bones [are] tubes of bronze, His bones [are] as a bar of iron.
19 This is the chief of the creation of the Lord; made to be played with by his angels.
He [is] a beginning of the ways of God, His Maker [alone] brings His sword near;
20 And when he has gone up to a steep mountain, he causes joy to the quadrupeds in the deep.
For mountains bear food for him, And all the beasts of the field play there.
21 He lies under trees of every kind, by the papyrus, and reed, and bulrush.
He lies down under shades, In a secret place of reed and marsh.
22 And the great trees make a shadow over him with their branches, and [so do] the bushes of the field.
Shades cover him, [with] their shadow, Willows of the brook cover him.
23 If there should be a flood, he will not perceive it; he trust that Jordan will rush up into his mouth.
Behold, a flood oppresses—he does not hurry, He is confident though Jordan Comes forth to his mouth.
24 [Yet one] shall take him in his sight; [one] shall catch [him] with a cord, and pierce his nose.
Does [one] take him by his eyes? Does [one] pierce the nose with snares?”
