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Job 40

¹Job, you challenged Almighty God; will you give up now, or will you answer?

³I spoke foolishly, LORD. What can I answer? I will not try to say anything else.

⁵I have already said more than I should.

⁶Then out of the storm the LORD spoke to Job once again.

⁷Now stand up straight and answer my questions.

⁸Are you trying to prove that I am unjust--- to put me in the wrong and yourself in the right?

⁹Are you as strong as I am? Can your voice thunder as loud as mine?

¹⁰If so, stand up in your honor and pride; clothe yourself with majesty and glory.

¹¹Look at those who are proud; pour out your anger and humble them.

¹²Yes, look at them and bring them down; crush the wicked where they stand.

¹³Bury them all in the ground; bind them in the world of the dead.

¹⁴Then I will be the first to praise you and admit that you won the victory yourself.

¹⁵Look at the monster Behemoth; I created him and I created you. He eats grass like a cow,

¹⁶but what strength there is in his body, and what power there is in his muscles!

¹⁷His tail stands up like a cedar, and the muscles in his legs are strong.

¹⁸His bones are as strong as bronze, and his legs are like iron bars.

¹⁹The most amazing of all my creatures! Only his Creator can defeat him.

²⁰Grass to feed him grows on the hills where wild beasts play.

²¹He lies down under the thorn bushes, and hides among the reeds in the swamp.

²²The thorn bushes and the willows by the stream give him shelter in their shade.

²³He is not afraid of a rushing river; he is calm when the Jordan dashes in his face.

²⁴Who can blind his eyes and capture him? Or who can catch his snout in a trap?