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Job, Chapter 40

¹ Then the LORD said to Job, ² “Will the faultfinder contend with the Almighty? Let him who reproves God answer it.”	2 Job 9:3 Job 10:2 Job 33:13 Isa 45:9 Job 13:3 Job 23:4 Job 31:35
³ Then Job answered the LORD and said, ⁴ “Behold, I am insignificant; what can I reply to You? I lay my hand on my mouth. ⁵ “Once I have spoken, and I will not answer; Even twice, and I will add nothing more.”	4 Job 21:5 Job 29:9 5 Job 9:3 Job 9:15
⁶ Then the LORD answered Job out of the storm and said, ⁷ “Now gird up your loins like a man; I will ask you, and you instruct Me. ⁸ “Will you really annul My judgment? Will you condemn Me that you may be justified? ⁹ “Or do you have an arm like God, And can you thunder with a voice like His? ¹⁰ “Adorn yourself with eminence and dignity, And clothe yourself with honor and majesty. ¹¹ “Pour out the overflowings of your anger, And look on everyone who is proud, and make him low. ¹² “Look on everyone who is proud, and humble him, And tread down the wicked^a Lit under themwhere they stand. ¹³ “Hide them in the dust together; Bind^b Or their facesthem in the hidden place. ¹⁴ “Then I will also^c Or praise youconfess to you, That your own right hand can save you. ¹⁵ “Behold now,^d Or the hippopotamusBehemoth, which I made^e Lit withas well as you; He eats grass like an ox. ¹⁶ “Behold now, his strength in his loins And his power in the muscles of his belly. ¹⁷ “He bends his tail like a cedar; The sinews of his thighs are knit together. ¹⁸ “His bones are tubes of bronze; His^f Lit boneslimbs are like bars of iron. ¹⁹ “He is the first of the ways of God; Let his maker bring near his sword. ²⁰ “Surely the mountains bring him food, And all the beasts of the field play there. ²¹ “Under the lotus plants he lies down, In the covert of the reeds and the marsh. ²² “The lotus plants cover him with^g Lit his shadeshade; The willows of the brook surround him. ²³ “If a river^h Or oppressesrages, he is not alarmed; He is confident, though the Jordan rushes to his mouth. ²⁴ “Can anyone capture himⁱ Lit in his eyeswhen he is on watch, With^j Lit snaresbarbs can anyone pierce his nose?	6 Job 38:1 7 Job 38:3 Job 38:3 Job 42:4 8 Rom 3:4 Job 10:3 Job 10:7 Job 16:11 Job 19:6 Job 27:2 Job 13:18 Job 27:6 9 Job 37:5 Psa 29:3 10 Psa 93:1 Psa 104:1 11 Isa 42:25 Nah 1:6 Nah 1:8 Isa 2:12 Dan 4:37 12 Sa1 2:7 Isa 2:12 Isa 13:11 Dan 4:37 Isa 63:3 13 Isa 2:10-12 15 Job 40:19 19 Job 41:33 Job 40:15 20 Psa 104:14 Psa 104:26 23 Gen 13:10


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