Job 40

Lexham English Bible

³ So Job answered Yahweh and said,
⁴ “Look, I am insignificant.
What shall I answer you?
I lay my hand on my mouth.
⁵ Once I have spoken, and I will not answer;
even^[b] twice, but^[c] I will not proceed.”

⁶ Then^[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.

⁸ “Indeed, would you annul my justice?
Would you condemn me, so that you might be righteous?
⁹ Or do you have an arm like God,
and can you thunder with a voice like his?
¹⁰ Adorn^[f] yourself with pride and dignity,
and clothe yourself with splendor.
¹¹ Pour out the overflowing of your anger,
and look at all the proud, and humble them.
¹² Look at all the proud, humble them,
and tread down the wicked where they stand.^[g]
13 Hide them in the dust together;
bind their faces in the grave.
¹⁴ And 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.
¹⁶ Look, its strength is in its loins
and its power in the muscles of its stomach.
¹⁷ It keeps its tail straight like a cedar;
the sinews of its thighs are tightly wound.
¹⁸ Its 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]
20 Yes, the mountains yield produce for it,
and all wild animals^[j] play there.
²¹ Under the lotus tree it lies,
in the hiding place of the reeds and in the marsh.
²² The lotus trees cover it with their shade;
the wadi’s^[k] poplar trees surround it.
²³ Look, if the river is turbulent, it is not frightened;
it is confident even though the Jordan rushes against its mouth.
²⁴ Can anyone take it by its eyes?
Can he pierce its nose with a snare?