AB - Job - 40

40:1  (39:31) And the Lord God answered Job and said,

40:2  (39:32) Will anyone pervert judgment with the Mighty One? And he that reproves God, let him answer it.

40:3  (39:33) And Job answered and said to the Lord,

40:4  (39:34) Why do I yet plead? Being rebuked even while reproving the Lord: hearing such things, whereas I am nothing: and what shall I answer to these arguments? I will lay my hand upon my mouth.

40:5  (39:35) I have spoken once, but I will not do so a second time.

40:6  (40:1) And the Lord yet again answered and spoke to Job out of the cloud, saying,

40:7  (40:2) Nay, gird up now your loins like a man; and I will ask you, and you shall answer Me.

40:8  (40:3) Do not set aside My judgment: and do you think that I have dealt with you in any other way, than that you might appear to be righteous?

40:9  (40:4) Have you an arm like the Lord's? Or can you thunder with a voice like His?

40:10  (40:5) Assume now a lofty bearing and power; and clothe yourself with glory and honor.

40:11  (40:6) And send forth messengers with wrath, and lay low every haughty one.

40:12  (40:7) Bring down also the proud man, and consume at once the ungodly.

40:13  (40:8) And hide them together in the earth, and fill their faces with shame.

40:14  (40:9) Then will I confess that your right hand can save you.

40:15  (40:10) But now look at the wild beasts among you; they eat grass like oxen.

40:16  (40:11) Behold now, his strength is in his loins, and his force is in the navel of his belly.

40:17  (40:12) He sets up his tail like a cypress, and his nerves are wrapped together.

40:18  (40:13) His sides are sides of brass, and his backbone is as cast iron.

40:19  (40:14) This is the chief of the creation of the Lord; made to be played with by His angels.

40:20  (40:15) And when he has gone up to a steep mountain, he causes joy to the quadrupeds in the deep.

40:21  (40:16) He lies under trees of every kind, by the papyrus, the reed, and the bulrush.

40:22  (40:17) And the great trees make a shadow over him with their branches, and so do the bushes of the field.

40:23  (40:18) If there should be a flood, he will not perceive it; he trusts that the Jordan will rush up into his mouth.

40:24  (40:19) Yet one shall take him in his sight; one shall catch him with a cord, and pierce his nose.