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Chapter 40
1 And the Lord answering Job out of the whirlwind, said:
2 Gird up your loins like a man: I will ask you, and do you tell me.
3 will you make void my judgment: and condemn me, that you may be justified?
4 And have you an arm like God, and can you thunder with a voice like him?
5 Clothe yourself with beauty, and set yourself up on high and be glorious, and put on goodly garments.
6 Scatter the proud in your indignation, and behold every arrogant man, and humble him.
7 Look on all that are proud, and confound them, and crush the wicked in their place.
8 Hide them in the dust together, and plunge their faces into the pit.
9 Then I will confess that your right hand is able to save you.
10 Behold behemoth whom I made with you, he eats grass like an ox.
11 His strength is in his loins, and his force in the navel of his belly.
12 He sets up his tail like a cedar, the sinews of his testicles are wrapped together.
13 His bones are like pipes of brass, his gristle like plates of iron.
14 He is the beginning of the ways of God, who made him, he will apply his sword.
15 To him the mountains bring forth grass: there all the beasts of the field shall play.
16 He sleeps under the shadow, in the covert of the reed, and in moist places.
17 The shades cover his shadow, the willows of the brook shall compass him about.
18 Behold, he will drink up a river, and not wonder: and he trusts that the Jordan may run into his mouth.
19 In his eyes as with a hook he shall take him, and bore through his nostrils with stakes.
20 can you draw out the leviathan with a hook, or can you tie his tongue with a cord?
21 can you put a ring in his nose, or bore through his jaw with a buckle?
22 Will he make many supplications to you, or speak soft words to you?
23 Will he make a covenant with you, and will you take him to be a servant for ever?
24 shall you play with him as with a bird, or tie him up for your handmaids?
25 Shall friends cut him in pieces, shall merchants divide him?
26 will you fill nets with his skin, and the cabins of fishes with his head?
27 Lay your hand upon him: remember the battle, and speak no more.
28 Behold his hope shall fail him, and in the sight of all he shall be cast down.