Job 40

40Then^a Yahweh answered Job and said,

²“Shall a faultfinder contend with Shaddai?

Anyone who argues with God must answer it.”

Job Responds to Yahweh

³So Job answered Yahweh and said,

⁴“Look, I am insignificant.

What shall I answer you?

I lay my hand on my mouth.

⁵Once I have spoken, and I will not answer;

even^b twice, but^c I will not proceed.”

Yahweh Challenges Job Again

⁶Then^d Yahweh answered Job from the storm, and he said,

⁷“Prepare yourself for a difficult task like a man,^e

and I will question you, and you shall declare to me.

Yahweh Interrogates Job Again

⁸“Indeed, would you annul my justice?

Would you condemn me, so that you might be righteous?

⁹Or do you have an arm like God,

and can you thunder with a voice like his?

¹⁰Adorn^f yourself with pride and dignity,

and clothe yourself with splendor.

¹¹Pour out the overflowing of your anger,

and look at all the proud, and humble them.

¹²Look at all the proud, humble them,

and tread down the wicked where they stand.^g

¹³Hide them in the dust together;

bind their faces in the grave.

¹⁴And I will also praise you,

that your own right hand can save you.

¹⁵“Look, Behemoth,^h which I have made just as I made you;

it eats grass like the ox.

¹⁶Look, its strength is in its loins

and its power in the muscles of its stomach.

¹⁷It keeps its tail straight like a cedar;

the sinews of its thighs are tightly wound.

¹⁸Its bones are tubes of copper,

its limbs like rods of iron.

¹⁹“It is the first of God’s actions;

the one who made him furnishes it with his sword.ⁱ

²⁰Yes, the mountains yield produce for it,

and all wild animals^j play there.

²¹Under the lotus tree it lies,

in the hiding place of the reeds and in the marsh.

²²The lotus trees cover it with their shade;

the wadi’s^k poplar trees surround it.

²³Look, if the river is turbulent, it is not frightened;

it is confident even though the Jordan rushes against its mouth.

²⁴Can anyone take it by its eyes?

Can he pierce its nose with a snare?