Chapter 40

  And Jehovah doth answer Job, and saith: --  

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  Is the striver with the Mighty instructed? The reprover of God, let him answer it.  

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  And Job answereth Jehovah, and saith: --  

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  Lo, I have been vile, What do I return to Thee? My hand I have placed on my mouth.  

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  Once I have spoken, and I answer not, And twice, and I add not.  

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  And Jehovah answereth Job out of the whirlwind, and saith: --  

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  Gird, I pray thee, as a man, thy loins, I ask thee, and cause thou Me to know.  

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  Dost thou also make void My judgment? Dost thou condemn Me, That thou mayest be righteous?  

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  And an arm like God hast thou? And with a voice like Him dost thou thunder?  

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  Put on, I pray thee, excellency and loftiness, Yea, honour and beauty put on.  

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  Scatter abroad the wrath of thine anger, And see every proud one, and make him low.  

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  See every proud one -- humble him, And tread down the wicked in their place.  

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  Hide them in the dust together, Their faces bind in secret.  

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  And even I -- I do praise thee, For thy right hand giveth salvation to thee.  

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  Lo, I pray thee, Behemoth, that I made with thee: Grass as an ox he eateth.  

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  Lo, I pray thee, his power [is] in his loins, And his strength in the muscles of his belly.  

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  He doth bend his tail as a cedar, The sinews of his thighs are wrapped together,  

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  His bones [are] tubes of brass, His bones [are] as a bar of iron.  

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  He [is] a beginning of the ways of God, His Maker bringeth nigh his sword;  

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  For food do mountains bear for him, And all the beasts of the field play there.  

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  Under shades he lieth down, In a secret place of reed and mire.  

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  Cover him do shades, [with] their shadow, Cover him do willows of the brook.  

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  Lo, a flood oppresseth -- he doth not haste, He is confident though Jordan Doth come forth unto his mouth.  

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  Before his eyes doth [one] take him, With snares doth [one] pierce the nose?  

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