en_wbms - Job 40 - Ozzuu Bible

¹ And the Lord added to, and spake to Job, and said,

² Whether he, that striveth with God, shall have rest so lightly? Soothly he, that reproveth God, oweth for to answer to him.

³ And Job answered to the Lord, and said,

⁴ What may I answer, which have spoken lightly, that is, undiscreetly and follily? I shall put mine hand upon my mouth.

⁵ I spake one thing, which thing I would, that I had not said; and I spake another thing, to which I shall no more add.

⁶ Forsooth the Lord answered to Job from the whirlwind, and said,

⁷ Gird thou as a man thy loins, and I shall ask thee, and show thou to me.

⁸ Whether thou shalt make void my doom, and shalt thou condemn me, that thou be made just [or be justified]?

⁹ And if thou hast an arm, or power, as God hath, and if thou thunderest with like voice,

¹⁰ take thou fairness about thee, and be thou raised on high, and be thou glorious, and be thou clothed in fair clothes.

¹¹ And destroy thou proud men in thy fierce vengeance, and behold thou, and make low each boaster.

¹² Behold thou all proud men, and shame thou them; and all-break thou wicked men in their place.

¹³ Hide thou them in dust together, and drown down their faces into a ditch.

¹⁴ And then I shall acknowledge, that thy right hand may save thee.

¹⁵ Lo! behemoth, whom I made with thee, shall as an ox eat hay.

¹⁶ His strength is in his loins, and his might is in the navel of his womb.

¹⁷ He constraineth his tail as a cedar; the sinews of his stones of engendering be folded together.

¹⁸ His bones be as pipes of brass; the gristle of him is as plates of iron.

¹⁹ He is the beginning of the ways of God; he, that made him, shall set his sword to him.

²⁰ Hills bear herbs to this behemoth; all the beasts of the field play there.

²¹ He sleepeth under shadow, in the private of a reed, in moist places.

²² Shadows cover his shadow; the sallows of the river encompass him.

²³ He shall swallow up the flood, and he shall not wonder; he hath trust, that Jordan shall flow into his mouth.

²⁴ He shall take them by his eyes, as by an hook; and by sharp shafts he shall pierce his nostrils.