New American Standard Bible 1995

Job 40:6-24

6Then the 1Lord answered Job out of the storm and said,7“Now 2gird up your loins like a man; I will 3ask you, and you instruct Me.8Will you really 4annul My judgment? Will you 5condemn Me 6that you may be justified?9Or do you have an arm like God, And can you 7thunder with a voice like His?

10“8Adorn yourself with eminence and dignity, And clothe yourself with honor and majesty.11Pour out 9the overflowings of your anger, And look on everyone who is 10proud, and make him low.12Look on everyone who is proud, and 11humble him, And 12tread down the wicked 13where they stand.13 14Hide them in the dust together; Bind 15them in the hidden place.14Then I will also 16confess to you, That your own right hand can save you.

15“Behold now, 17Behemoth, which 18I made 19as well as you; He eats grass like an ox.16Behold now, his strength in his loins And his power in the muscles of his belly.17He bends his tail like a cedar; The sinews of his thighs are knit together.18His bones are tubes of bronze; His 20limbs are like bars of iron.

19“He is the 21first of the ways of God; Let his 22maker bring near his sword.20Surely the mountains 23bring him food, And all the beasts of the field 24play there.21Under the lotus plants he lies down, In the covert of the reeds and the marsh.22The lotus plants cover him with 25shade; The willows of the brook surround him.23If a river 26rages, he is not alarmed; He is confident, though the 27Jordan rushes to his mouth.24Can anyone capture him 28when he is on watch, With 29barbs can anyone pierce his nose?

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Notes

1. Job 40:6 Job 38:1 ↩
2. Job 40:7 Job 38:3 ↩
3. Job 40:7 Job 38:3; 42:4 ↩
4. Job 40:8 Rom 3:4 ↩
5. Job 40:8 Job 10:3, 7; 16:11; 19:6; 27:2 ↩
6. Job 40:8 Job 13:18; 27:6 ↩
7. Job 40:9 Job 37:5; Ps 29:3 ↩
8. Job 40:10 Ps 93:1; 104:1 ↩
9. Job 40:11 Is 42:25; Nah 1:6, 8 ↩
10. Job 40:11 Is 2:12; Dan 4:37 ↩
11. Job 40:12 1 Sam 2:7; Is 2:12; 13:11; Dan 4:37 ↩
12. Job 40:12 Is 63:3 ↩
13. Job 40:12 Lit under them ↩
14. Job 40:13 Is 2:10-12 ↩
15. Job 40:13 Or their faces ↩
16. Job 40:14 Or praise you ↩
17. Job 40:15 Or the hippopotamus ↩
18. Job 40:15 Job 40:19 ↩
19. Job 40:15 Lit with ↩
20. Job 40:18 Lit bones ↩
21. Job 40:19 Job 41:33 ↩
22. Job 40:19 Job 40:15 ↩
23. Job 40:20 Ps 104:14 ↩
24. Job 40:20 Ps 104:26 ↩
25. Job 40:22 Lit his shade ↩
26. Job 40:23 Or oppresses ↩
27. Job 40:23 Gen 13:10 ↩
28. Job 40:24 Lit in his eyes ↩
29. Job 40:24 Lit snares ↩

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