Noyes - Job - 40

40:1  Moreover Jehovah spake to Job, and said:

40:2  Will the censurer of the Almighty contend with him? Will the reprover of God answer?

40:3  Then Job answered Jehovah, and said:

40:4  Behold, I am vile! what can I answer thee? I will lay my hand upon my mouth.

40:5  Once have I spoken, but I will not speak again; Yea, twice, but I will say no more.

40:6  Then spake Jehovah to Job out of the whirlwind, and said:

40:7  Gird up now thy loins like a man! I will ask thee, and do thou instruct me!

40:8  Wilt thou even disannul my right? Wilt thou condemn me, that thou mayst be righteous?

40:9  Hast thou an arm like God’s? Or canst thou thunder with thy voice like him?

40:10  Deck thyself with grandeur and majesty, And array thyself in splendor and glory!

40:11  Send forth the fury of thy wrath! Look upon every proud one, and abase him!

40:12  Look upon every proud one, and bring him low; Yea, tread down the wicked in their place!

40:13  Hide them in the dust together; Shut up their faces in darkness!

40:14  Then, indeed, will I give thee the praise, That thine own right hand can save thee.

40:15  Behold the river-horse, which I have made as well as thyself; He feedeth on grass like the ox.

40:16  Behold, what strength is in his loins! And what force in the muscles of his belly!

40:17  He bendeth his tail, like the cedar, And the sinews of his thighs are twisted together.

40:18  His bones are pipes of brass, And his limbs are bars of iron.

40:19  He is chief among the works of God; He that made him gave him his sword.

40:20  For the mountains supply him with food, Where all the beasts of the field play.

40:21  He lieth down under the lote-plants, In the covert of reeds, and in the fens.

40:22  The lote-plants cover him with their shadow, And the willows of the brook compass him about.

40:23  Lo! the stream overfloweth, but he starteth not; He is unmoved though Jordan rush forth even to his mouth.

40:24  Can one take him before his eyes, Or pierce his nose with hooks?