Job 40:1-24
40 And Jehovah proceeded to answer Job and say:
2 “Should there be any contending* of a faultfinder with the Almighty?+Let the reprover of God* himself answer it.”+
3 And Job went on to answer Jehovah and say:
4 “Look! I have become of little account.+What shall I reply to you?My hand I have put over my mouth.+
5 Once have I spoken, and I will not answer;And twice, and I will add nothing.”
6 And Jehovah went on to answer Job out of the windstorm+ and say:
7 “Gird up your loins, please, like an able-bodied man;+I shall question you, and you inform me.+
8 Really, will you invalidate my justice?Will you pronounce me wicked in order that you may be in the right?*+
9 Or do you have an arm like that of the [true] God,*+And with a voice like his can you make it thunder?+
10 Deck yourself, please, with superiority+ and highness;+And with dignity+ and splendor+ may you clothe yourself.
11 Let flow the furious outbursts of your anger,+And see every one haughty and bring him low.
12 See every one haughty, humble him,+And tread down the wicked right where they are.
13 Hide them together in the dust,+Bind their very faces in the hidden place,
14 And I, even I, shall commend you,Because your right hand can save you.
15 Here, now, is Be·heʹmoth* that I have made as well as you.Green grass it eats+ just as a bull does.
16 Here, now, its power is in its hips,And its dynamic energy+ in the tendons of its belly.
17 It bends down its tail like a cedar;The sinews of its thighs are interwoven.
18 Its bones are tubes of copper;Its strong bones are like wrought-iron rods.
19 It is the beginning of the ways of God;*Its Maker+ can bring near his sword.
20 For the mountains themselves bear their produce for it,+And all the wild beasts of the field themselves play there.*
21 Under the thorny lotus trees it lies down,In the concealed place of reeds+ and the swampy place.+
22 The thorny lotus trees keep it blocked off with their shadow;The poplars of the torrent valley surround it.
23 If the river acts violently, it does not run in panic.It is confident, although the Jordan+ should burst forth against its mouth.
24 Before its eyes can anyone take it?With snares can anyone bore [its] nose?*
Footnotes
^ “Should there be any contending.” In Heb. this is a verb in the infinitive absolute, indefinite as to time and impersonal.
^ “God.” Heb., ʼElohʹah.
^ “Do you imagine that I have treated you otherwise than that you should appear righteous?” LXX.
^ Or, “hippopotamus.” Heb., vehe·mohthʹ, pl. of behe·mahʹ (compare Ge 1:24 ftn, “Animal”); Gr., the·riʹa; Lat.(vs 10), Be·heʹmoth.
^ “God.” Heb., ʼEl.
^ “He made pleasure for the four-footed creatures in the Tartarus,” LXX. See App 4D.
^ MLXX continue this chapter for eight more vss.
