Job 40:1-24
40 And Jehovah answered Job
2 “Does an admonisher dispute with Shaddai?let him who corrects God answer it.”
3 And Job answered Jehovah
4 “Here I am, insignificant—what reply should I make?I lay my hand on my mouth.
5 I did speak once, but will not answer—and twice; but I will do it no more.”
6 And Jehovah answered Job out of a tempest
7 “Gird your loins like a manso that I may ask you questions and you inform me.
8 Will you even quash my judgment,hold me in the wrong so that you may be in the right?
9 Or do you have an arm like God’s,do you thunder with a voice like his?
10 Bedeck yourself with dignity and sublimity,robing yourself in majesty and splendor,
11 * Hurl the rages of your anger,and see every proud one and bring him low,
12 * See every overweening one and humble him,crumple wrong-doers where they stand,
13 * Bury them in the ground together,envelop their faces in sod,
14 And I too will praise youthat your right hand has made good your cause.
15 * Here is Behemoth, that I made with you;it eats grass like cattle.
16 Here is the strength in its backand the vigor in the muscles of its belly.
17 * It holds its tail stiff as a cedar;the sinews of its hams are ropy.
18 * Its bones are copper pipes,its backbone like a bar of iron.
19 * First of Deity’s undertakings is this,made as he was bringing on his chisel.
20 ** For mountains bear growth for it,and all beasts of the wilds play there.
21 Under jujube-trees it lies,in a blind of reeds and morass,
22 * Jujube-trees cover it with its shade,arroyo poplars surround it.
23 ** Suppose a river overflows, it is not nervous;it is undaunted though a Jordan bursts against its mouth;
24 * In its eyes it takes it;it has its nose bored with baits.
Footnotes
^ 40:11 (last half), 12 (first half) Susp.
^ 40:12 (crumple) Unc.
^ 40:13 (in sod) Lit. in burial
^ 40:15 Or Here you have with you Behemoth, that I made (var. omits that I made)
^ 40:17 Unc.
^ 40:18 (last half) Unc.
^ 40:19 (last half) Unc., susp.
^ 40:20 Conj. that For does not belong here
^ 40:20 (last half) Susp.
^ 40:22 (first half) Susp.
^ 40:23 (overflows) Var. oppresses
^ 40:23 (last half) Susp.
^ 40:24 Unc., susp.
