40:1 Moreover Jehovah answered Job and said,40:2Shall he who quibbles contend with the Almighty? He who argues with God, let him answer it.
40:3 Then Job answered Jehovah and said, 40:4Behold, I am of small account. What shall I answer you? I lay my hand upon my mouth. 40:5 I have spoken once and I will not answer, yes, twice, but I will proceed no further.
40:6 Then Jehovah answered Job out of the whirlwind and said, 40:7 Gird up your loins now like a man. I will demand of you and declare you to me.40:8 Will you even annul my judgment? Will you condemn me, that you may be justified?
40:9 Or have you an arm like God? And can you thunder with a voice like him? 40:10 Deck yourself now with excellency and dignity and array yourself with honor and majesty. 40:11 Pour forth the overflowing of your anger and look upon everyone who is proud and humble him.
40:12 Look on everyone who is proud, and bring him low and tread down the wicked where they stand. 40:13 Hide them in the dust together. Bind their faces in the hidden place. 40:14 Then I will also confess of you that your own right hand can save you.
40:15 Behold now behemoth {extremely large animal; possibly a dinosaur}, which I made as well as you. He eats grass as an ox. 40:16 Behold now, his strength is in his loins and his force is in the muscles of his belly. 40:17 He moves his tail like a cedar. The muscles of his thighs are knit together.
40:18 His bones are as tubes of brass. His limbs are like bars of iron.
40:19 He is a beginning of the ways of God. He who made him gives him his sword. 40:20 Surely the mountains bring him forth food, where all the beasts of the field play. 40:21 He lies under the lotus trees, in the covert of the reed and the fen. 40:22 The lotus trees cover him with their shade. The willows of the brook encompass him about.
40:23 Behold, if a river overflows, he does not tremble. He is confident though a Jordan swell even to his mouth. 40:24 Shall any take him when he is on the watch, or pierce through his nose with a snare?