Job 40

¹And our Lord answering Job out of the whirlwind, said:

²Gird thy loins as a man: I will ask thee, & do thou tell me.

³Shalt thou make my judgment of none effect: and condemn me, that thou mayst be justified?

⁴And hast thou an arm as God, and dost thou thunder with like voice?

⁵Put beauty about thee, and set up thyself aloft, and be glorious, and put on goodly garments.

⁶Disperse the proud in thy fury, and beholding every arrogant man, humble him.

⁷Behold all the proud, and confound them, and destroy the impious in their place.

⁸Hide them in the dust together, and plunge their faces in the pit.

⁹And I will confess, that thy right hand is able to save thee.

¹⁰Behold Behemoth whom I made with thee, shall eat hay as it were an oxe.

¹¹His strength is in his loins, and his power in the navel of his belly.

¹²He gathereth together his tail as the cedar tree, the sinews of his stones are perplex.

¹³His bones are as pipes of brass, his gristle as it were plates of iron.

¹⁴He is the beginning of the ways of God, which made him, he shall apply his sword.

¹⁵To him the mountains bear grass: all the beasts of the field shall play there.

¹⁶He sleepeth under the shadow, in the secret of the reed, and in moist places.

¹⁷Shadows do protect his shadow, the willows of the torrent shall compass him.

¹⁸Lo, he shall sup up the river, & shall not marvel: and he hath confidence that Jordan may run into his mouth.

¹⁹In his eyes as with a hook he shall take him, and with stakes he shall bore through his nostrils.

²⁰Canst thou draw out the Leviathan with a hook, and with a rope shalt thou tie his tongue?

²¹Shalt thou put a ring in his nostrils, or bore through his jaw with a buckle?

²²Will he multiply prayers to thee, or speak to thee gentle words?

²³Will he make a covenant with thee, and shalt thou take him to be a servant for ever?

²⁴Shalt thou delude him as a bird, or tie him for thy handmaids?

²⁵Shall friends cut him, merchants divide him?

²⁶Shalt thou fill nests with his skin, and the cabin of fishes with his head?

²⁷Lay thy hand upon him: remember battle, and add to speak no more.

²⁸Behold his hope shall frustrate him, and in the sight of all he shall be cast down headlong.