📖 Job 40
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Job’s Reply to God’s Challenge Then the LORD answered Job:
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“Will the one who contends with the Almighty correct him? Let the person who accuses God give him an answer!”
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Then Job answered the LORD:
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“Indeed, I am completely unworthy– how could I reply to you? I put my hand over my mouth to silence myself.
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I have spoken once, but I cannot answer; twice, but I will say no more.”
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The Lord’s Second Speech Then the LORD answered Job from the whirlwind:
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“Get ready for a difficult task like a man. I will question you and you will inform me!
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Would you indeed annul my justice? Would you declare me guilty so that you might be right?
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Do you have an arm as powerful as God’s, and can you thunder with a voice like his?
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Adorn yourself, then, with majesty and excellency, and clothe yourself with glory and honor!
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Scatter abroad the abundance of your anger. Look at every proud man and bring him low;
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Look at every proud man and abase him; crush the wicked on the spot!
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Hide them in the dust together, imprison them in the grave.
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Then I myself will acknowledge to you that your own right hand can save you.
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The Description of Behemoth“Look now at Behemoth, which I made as I made you; it eats grass like the ox.
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Look at its strength in its loins, and its power in the muscles of its belly.
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It makes its tail stiff like a cedar, the sinews of its thighs are tightly wound.
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Its bones are tubes of bronze, its limbs like bars of iron.
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It ranks first among the works of God, the One who made it has furnished it with a sword.
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For the hills bring it food, where all the wild animals play.
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Under the lotus trees it lies, in the secrecy of the reeds and the marsh.
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The lotus trees conceal it in their shadow; the poplars by the stream conceal it.
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If the river rages, it is not disturbed, it is secure, though the Jordan should surge up to its mouth.
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Can anyone catch it by its eyes, or pierce its nose with a snare?