Job 40

¹Moreover Jehovah answered Job, and said,

²Shall he that cavilleth contend with the Almighty?

³Then Job answered Jehovah, and said,

⁴Behold, I am of small account; what shall I answer thee?

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

⁶Then Jehovah answered Job out of the whirlwind, and said,

⁷Gird up thy loins now like a man:

⁸Wilt thou even annul my judgment?

⁹Or hast thou an arm like God?

¹⁰Deck thyself now with excellency and dignity;

¹¹Pour forth the overflowings of thine anger;

¹²Look on every one that is proud, and bring him low;

¹³Hide them in the dust together;

¹⁴Then will I also confess of thee

¹⁵Behold now, behemoth, which I made as well as thee;

¹⁶Lo now, his strength is in his loins,

¹⁷He moveth his tail like a cedar:

¹⁸His bones are as tubes of brass;

¹⁹He is the chief of the ways of God:

²⁰Surely the mountains bring him forth food,

²¹He lieth under the lotus-trees,

²²The lotus-trees cover him with their shade;

²³Behold, if a river overflow, he trembleth not;

²⁴Shall any take him when he is on the watch,