Job 40 · Clearspring

Job Humbles Himself before the LORD

¹And Jehovah doth answer Job, and saith: --+ ²Is the striver with the Mighty instructed? The reprover of God, let him answer it.+ ³And Job answereth Jehovah, and saith: --+ ⁴Lo, I have been vile, What do I return to Thee? My hand I have placed on my mouth.+ ⁵Once I have spoken, and I answer not, And twice, and I add not.+

The LORD Challenges Job Again

⁶And Jehovah answereth Job out of the whirlwind, and saith: --+ ⁷Gird, I pray thee, as a man, thy loins, I ask thee, and cause thou Me to know.+ ⁸Dost thou also make void My judgment? Dost thou condemn Me, That thou mayest be righteous?+ ⁹And an arm like God hast thou? And with a voice like Him dost thou thunder?+ ¹⁰Put on, I pray thee, excellency and loftiness, Yea, honour and beauty put on.+ ¹¹Scatter abroad the wrath of thine anger, And see every proud one, and make him low.+ ¹²See every proud one--humble him, And tread down the wicked in their place.+ ¹³Hide them in the dust together, Their faces bind in secret.+ ¹⁴And even I--I do praise thee, For thy right hand giveth salvation to thee.+ ¹⁵Lo, I pray thee, Behemoth, that I made with thee: Grass as an ox he eateth.+ ¹⁶Lo, I pray thee, his power is in his loins, And his strength in the muscles of his belly.+ ¹⁷He doth bend his tail as a cedar, The sinews of his thighs are wrapped together,+ ¹⁸His bones are tubes of brass, His bones are as a bar of iron.+ ¹⁹He is a beginning of the ways of God, His Maker bringeth nigh his sword;+ ²⁰For food do mountains bear for him, And all the beasts of the field play there.+ ²¹Under shades he lieth down, In a secret place of reed and mire.+ ²²Cover him do shades, with their shadow, Cover him do willows of the brook.+ ²³Lo, a flood oppresseth--he doth not haste, He is confident though Jordan Doth come forth unto his mouth.+ ²⁴Before his eyes doth one take him, With snares doth one pierce the nose?+

Job Humbles Himself before the LORD

The LORD Challenges Job Again

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