LEB JOB Chapter 40

Job Responds to Yahweh

• 3 So Job answered Yahweh and said,
• 4 “Look, I am insignificant.
• What shall I answer you?
• I lay my hand on my mouth.
• 5 Once I have spoken, and I will not answer;
• even[fn] twice, but[fn] I will not proceed.”

Yahweh Challenges Job Again

• 6 Then[fn] Yahweh answered Job from the storm, and he said,
• 7 “ Prepare yourself for a difficult task like a man ,[fn]
• and I will question you, and you shall declare to me.

Yahweh Interrogates Job Again

• 8 “Indeed, would you annul my justice?
• Would you condemn me, so that you might be righteous?
• 9 Or do you have an arm like God,
• and can you thunder with a voice like his?
• 10 Adorn[fn] yourself with pride and dignity,
• and clothe yourself with splendor.
• 11 Pour out the overflowing of your anger,
• and look at all the proud, and humble them.
• 12 Look at all the proud, humble them,
• and tread down the wicked where they stand .[fn]
• 13 Hide them in the dust together;
• bind their faces in the grave.
• 14 And I will also praise you,
• that your own right hand can save you.
• 15 “Look, Behemoth,[fn] which I have made just as I made you;
• it eats grass like the ox.
• 16 Look, its strength is in its loins
• and its power in the muscles of its stomach.
• 17 It keeps its tail straight like a cedar;
• the sinews of its thighs are tightly wound.
• 18 Its bones are tubes of copper,
• its limbs like rods of iron.
• 19 “It is the first of God’s actions;
• the one who made him furnishes it with his sword.[fn]
• 20 Yes, the mountains yield produce for it,
• and all wild animals[fn] play there.
• 21 Under the lotus tree it lies,
• in the hiding place of the reeds and in the marsh.
• 22 The lotus trees cover it with their shade;
• the wadi’s[fn] poplar trees surround it.
• 23 Look, if the river is turbulent, it is not frightened;
• it is confident even though the Jordan rushes against its mouth.
• 24 Can anyone take it by its eyes?
• Can he pierce its nose with a snare?