Job 40

Chapter 40

And the Lord answering Job out of the whirlwind, said:

²Gird up thy loins like a man: I will ask thee, and do thou tell me.

³Wilt thou make void my judgment: and condemn me, that thou mayst be justified?

⁴And hast thou an arm like God, and canst thou thunder with a voice like him?

⁵Clothe thyself with beauty, and set thyself up on high, and be glorious, and put on goodly garments.

⁶Scatter the proud in thy indignation, and behold every arrogant man, and humble him.

⁷Look on all that are proud, and confound them, and crush the wicked in their place,

⁸Hide them in the dust together, and plunge their faces into the pit.

⁹Then I will confess that thy right hand is able to save thee.

¹⁰Behold behemoth whom I made with thee, he eateth grass like an ox.

¹¹His strength is in his loins, and his force in the navel of his belly.

¹²He setteth up his tail like a cedar, the sinews of his testicles are wrapped together.

¹³His bones are like pipes of brass, his gristle like plates of iron.

¹⁴He is the beginning of the ways of God, who made him, he will apply his sword.

¹⁵To him the mountains bring forth grass: there all the beasts of the field shall play.

¹⁶He sleepeth under the shadow, in the covert of the reed, and in moist places.

¹⁷The shades cover his shadow, the willows of the brook shall compass him about.

¹⁸Behold, he will drink up a river, and not wonder: and he trusteth that the Jordan may run into his mouth.

¹⁹In his eyes as with a hook he shall take him, and bore through his nostrils with stakes.

²⁰Canst thou draw out the leviathan with a hook, or canst thou tie his tongue with a cord?

²¹Canst thou put a ring in his nose, or bore through his jaw with a buckle?

²²Will he make many supplications to thee, or speak soft words to thee?

²³Will he make a covenant with thee, and wilt thou take him to be a servant for ever,

²⁴Shalt thou play with him as with a bird, or tie him up for thy handmaids?

²⁵Shall friends cut him in pieces, shall merchants divide him?

²⁶Wilt thou fill nets with his skin, and the cabins of fishes with his head?

²⁷Lay thy hand upon him: remember the battle, and speak no more.

²⁸Behold his hope shall fail him, and in the sight of all he shall be cast down.