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Job 40

Brenton's English Septuagint · Berean Standard Bible

40:1

And the Lord God answered Job, and said,

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40:2

Will [any one] pervert judgment with the Mighty One? and he that reproves God, let him return it for answer.

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40:3

And Job answered and said to the Lord,

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40:4

Why do I yet plead? being rebuked even while reproving the Lord: hearing such things, whereas I am nothing: and what shall I answer to these [arguments]? I will lay my hand upon my mouth.

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40:5

I have spoken once; but I will not do so a second time.

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40:6

And the Lord yet again answered and spoke to Job out of the cloud, [saying],

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40:7

Nay, gird up now thy loins like a man; and I will ask thee, and do thou answer me.

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40:8

Do not set aside my judgment: and dost thou think that I have dealt with thee in any other way, than that thou mightest appear to be righteous?

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40:9

Hast thou an arm like the Lord's? or dost thou thunder with a voice like his?

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40:10

Assume now a lofty bearing and power; and clothe thyself with glory and honour.

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40:11

And send forth messengers with wrath; and lay low every haughty one.

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40:12

Bring down also the proud man; and consume at once the ungodly.

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40:13

And hide them together in the earth; and fill their faces with shame.

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40:14

[Then] will I confess that thy right hand can save [thee].

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40:15

But now look at the wild beasts with thee; they eat grass like oxen.

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40:16

Behold now, his strength is in his loins, and his force is in the navel of his belly.

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40:17

He sets up his tail like a cypress; and his nerves are wrapped together.

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40:18

His sides are sides of brass; and his backbone is [as] cast iron.

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40:19

This is the chief of the creation of the Lord; made to be played with by his angels.

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40:20

And when he has gone up to a steep mountain, he causes joy to the quadrupeds in the deep.

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40:21

He lies under trees of every kind, by the papyrus, and reed, and bulrush.

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40:22

And the great trees make a shadow over him with their branches, and [so do] the bushes of the field.

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40:23

If there should be a flood, he will not perceive it; he trusts that Jordan will rush up into his mouth.

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40:24

[Yet one] shall take him in his sight; [one] shall catch [him] with a cord, and pierce his nose.

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40:25

But wilt thou catch the serpent with a hook, and put a halter about his nose?

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40:26

Or wilt thou fasten a ring in his nostril, and bore his lip with a clasp?

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40:27

Will he address thee with a petition? softly, with the voice of a suppliant?

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40:28

And will he make a covenant with thee? and wilt thou take him for a perpetual servant?

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40:29

And wilt thou play with him as with a bird? or bind him as a sparrow for a child?

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40:30

And do the nations feed upon him, and the nations of the Phœnicians share him?

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40:31

And all the ships come together would not be able to bear the mere skin of his tail; neither [shall they carry] his head in fishing-vessels.

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40:32

But thou shalt lay thy hand upon him [once], remembering the war that is waged by his mouth; and let it not be done any more.

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