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Job 40 📜 📕 ↷
Job Humbles Himself before the LORD
1 AND our Lord answering Job out of the whirlwind, said:📜💬📚
2 Gird thy loins as a man: I will ask thee, & do thou tell me.📜💬📚
3 Shalt thou make my judgment of none effect: and condemn me, that thou mayst be justified?📜💬📚
4 And hast thou an arm as God, and dost thou thunder with like voice?📜💬📚
5 Put beauty about thee, and set up thy self aloft, and be glorious, and put on goodly garments.📜💬📚
LORD Challenges Job Again
6 Disperse the proud in thy fury, and beholding every arrogant man, humble him.📜💬📚
7 Behold all the proud, and confound them, and destroy the impious in their place.📜💬📚
8 Hide them in the dust together, and plunge their faces in the pit.📜💬📚
9 And I will confess, that thy right hand is able to save thee.📜💬📚
10 Behold Behemoth whom I made with thee, shall eat hay as it were an oxe.📜💬📚
11 His strength is in his loins, and his power in the navel of his belly.📜💬📚
12 He gathereth together his tail as the cedar tree, the sinews of his stones are perplex.📜💬📚
13 His bones are as pipes of brass, his gristle as it were plates of iron.📜💬📚
14 He is the beginning of the ways of God, which made him, he shall apply his sword.📜💬📚
15 To him the mountains bear grass: all the beasts of the field shall play there.📜💬📚
16 He sleepeth under the shadow, in the secret of the reed, and in moist places.📜💬📚
17 Shadows do protect his shadow, the willows of the torrent shall compass him.📜💬📚
18 Lo, he shall sup up the river, & shall not marvel: and he hath confidence that Jordan may run into his mouth.📜💬📚
19 In his eyes as with a hook he shall take him, and with stakes he shall bore through his nostrils.📜💬📚
20 Canst thou draw out the Leviathan with a hook, and with a rope shalt thou tie his tongue?📜💬📚
21 Shalt thou put a ring in his nostrils, or bore through his jaw with a buckle?📜💬📚
22 Will he multiply prayers to thee, or speak to thee gentle words?📜💬📚
23 Will he make a covenant with thee, and shalt thou take him to be a servant for ever?📜💬📚
24 Shalt thou delude him as a bird, or tie him for thy handmaids?📜💬📚
25 Shall friends cut him, merchants divide him?📜💬📚
26 Shalt thou fill nests with his skin, and the cabin of fishes with his head?📜💬📚
27 Lay thy hand upon him: remember battle, and add to speak no more.📜💬📚
28 Behold his hope shall frustrate him, and in the sight of all he shall be cast down headlong.📜💬📚
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