Job 40 :: Young's Literal Translation (YLT)

Job: What Can I Say?

Job 40:1

Job 40:1And Jehovah doth answer Job, and saith: --

Job 40:2

Job 40:2Is the striver with the Mighty instructed? The reprover of God, let him answer it.

Job 40:3

Job 40:3And Job answereth Jehovah, and saith: --

Job 40:4

Job 40:4Lo, I have been vile, What do I return to Thee? My hand I have placed on my mouth.

Job 40:5

Job 40:5Once I have spoken, and I answer not, And twice, and I add not.

God Questions Job

Job 40:6

Job 40:6And Jehovah answereth Job out of the whirlwind, and saith: --

Job 40:7

Job 40:7Gird, I pray thee, as a man, thy loins, I ask thee, and cause thou Me to know.

Job 40:8

Job 40:8Dost thou also make void My judgment? Dost thou condemn Me, That thou mayest be righteous?

Job 40:9

Job 40:9And an arm like God hast thou? And with a voice like Him dost thou thunder?

Job 40:10

Job 40:10Put on, I pray thee, excellency and loftiness, Yea, honour and beauty put on.

Job 40:11

Job 40:11Scatter abroad the wrath of thine anger, And see every proud one, and make him low.

Job 40:12

Job 40:12See every proud one -- humble him, And tread down the wicked in their place.

Job 40:13

Job 40:13Hide them in the dust together, Their faces bind in secret.

Job 40:14

Job 40:14And even I -- I do praise thee, For thy right hand giveth salvation to thee.

God's Power Shown in Creatures

Job 40:15

Job 40:15Lo, I pray thee, Behemoth, that I made with thee: Grass as an ox he eateth.

Job 40:16

Job 40:16Lo, I pray thee, his power is in his loins, And his strength in the muscles of his belly.

Job 40:17

Job 40:17He doth bend his tail as a cedar, The sinews of his thighs are wrapped together,

Job 40:18

Job 40:18His bones are tubes of brass, His bones are as a bar of iron.

Job 40:19

Job 40:19He is a beginning of the ways of God, His Maker bringeth nigh his sword;

Job 40:20

Job 40:20For food do mountains bear for him, And all the beasts of the field play there.

Job 40:21

Job 40:21Under shades he lieth down, In a secret place of reed and mire.

Job 40:22

Job 40:22Cover him do shades, with their shadow, Cover him do willows of the brook.

Job 40:23

Job 40:23Lo, a flood oppresseth -- he doth not haste, He is confident though Jordan Doth come forth unto his mouth.

Job 40:24

Job 40:24Before his eyes doth one take him, With snares doth one pierce the nose?

The Young's Literal Translation was translated by Robert Young, who believed in a strictly literal translation of God's word. This version of the Bible is in the public domain.

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