Job 40 :: Brenton's English Septuagint (BES)

Job 40:1And the Lord God answered Job, and said,

Job 40:2Will any one pervert judgment with the Mighty One? and he that reproves God, let him return it for answer.

Job 40:3And Job answered and said to the Lord,

Job 40:4Why 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.

Job 40:5

Job 40:5I have spoken once; but I will not do so a second time.

Job 40:6

Job 40:6And the Lord yet again answered and spoke to Job out of the cloud, saying,

Job 40:7

Job 40:7Nay, gird up now thy loins like a man; and I will ask thee, and do thou answer me.

Job 40:8

Job 40:8Do 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?

Job 40:9

Job 40:9Hast thou an arm like the Lord's? or dost thou thunder with a voice like his?

Job 40:10

Job 40:10Assume now a lofty bearing and power; and clothe thyself with glory and honour.

Job 40:11

Job 40:11And send forth messengers with wrath; and lay low every haughty one.

Job 40:12

Job 40:12Bring down also the proud man; and consume at once the ungodly.

Job 40:13

Job 40:13And hide them together in the earth; and fill their faces with shame.

Job 40:14

Job 40:14 Then will I confess that thy right hand can save thee.

Job 40:15

Job 40:15But now look at the wild beasts with thee; they eat grass like oxen.

Job 40:16

Job 40:16Behold now, his strength is in his loins, and his force is in the navel of his belly.

Job 40:17

Job 40:17He sets up his tail like a cypress; and his nerves are wrapped together.

Job 40:18

Job 40:18His sides are sides of brass; and his backbone is as cast iron.

Job 40:19

Job 40:19This is the chief of the creation of the Lord; made to be played with by his angels.

Job 40:20

Job 40:20And when he has gone up to a steep mountain, he causes joy to the quadrupeds in the deep.

Job 40:21

Job 40:21He lies under trees of every kind, by the papyrus, and reed, and bulrush.

Job 40:22

Job 40:22And the great trees make a shadow over him with their branches, and so do the bushes of the field.

Job 40:23

Job 40:23If there should be a flood, he will not perceive it; he trusts that Jordan will rush up into his mouth.

Job 40:24

Job 40:24 Yet one shall take him in his sight; one shall catch him with a cord, and pierce his nose.

Translation of the Greek Septuagint into English by Sir Lancelot Charles Lee Brenton, originally published in 1851 and is now in the Public Domain

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