Job 40

1Moreover Yahweh answered Job,Cross-references: Job 38:1 · Job 40:6

2“Shall he who argues contend with the Almighty? He who argues with God, let him answer it.”Cross-references: Job 3:11 · Job 3:20 · Job 3:23 · Job 7:12 · Job 7:19 · Job 9:3 · +21 more

3Then Job answered Yahweh,

4“Behold, I am of small account. What will I answer you? I lay my hand on my mouth.Cross-references: Gen 18:27 · Gen 32:10 · Judg 18:19 · 2Sam 24:10 · 1Ki 19:4 · Ezra 9:6 · +24 more

5I have spoken once, and I will not answer; Yes, twice, but I will proceed no further.”Cross-references: 2Ki 6:10 · Job 9:3 · Job 9:15 · Job 33:14 · Job 34:31 · Ps 62:11 · +2 more

6Then Yahweh answered Job out of the whirlwind:Cross-references: Job 38:1 · Ps 50:3 · Heb 12:18 · 2Pet 3:10

7“Now brace yourself like a man. I will question you, and you will answer me.Cross-references: Job 13:22 · Job 23:3 · Job 38:3 · Job 42:4

8Will you even annul my judgment? Will you condemn me, that you may be justified?Cross-references: Job 10:3 · Job 27:2 · Job 32:2 · Job 34:5 · Job 35:2 · Ps 51:4 · +6 more

9Or do you have an arm like God? Can you thunder with a voice like him?Cross-references: Ex 15:6 · Job 9:4 · Job 23:6 · Job 33:12 · Job 37:4 · Ps 29:3 · +5 more

10“Now deck yourself with excellency and dignity. Array yourself with honor and majesty.Cross-references: Ex 28:2 · 1Chr 29:11 · Job 39:19 · Ps 21:5 · Ps 45:3 · Ps 50:2 · +10 more

11Pour out the fury of your anger. Look at everyone who is proud, and bring him low.Cross-references: Ex 9:16 · Ex 15:6 · Ex 18:11 · Deut 32:22 · Job 20:23 · Job 27:22 · +17 more

12Look at everyone who is proud, and humble him. Crush the wicked in their place.Cross-references: 1Sam 2:7 · Job 36:20 · Ps 60:12 · Prov 15:25 · Eccl 11:3 · Isa 10:6 · +6 more

13Hide them in the dust together. Bind their faces in the hidden place.Cross-references: Esth 7:8 · Job 14:13 · Job 36:13 · Ps 49:14 · Isa 2:10 · John 11:44

14Then I will also admit to you that your own right hand can save you.Cross-references: Ps 44:3 · Ps 44:6 · Isa 40:29 · Rom 5:6 · Eph 2:4

15“See now behemoth, which I made as well as you. He eats grass as an ox.Cross-references: Gen 1:24 · Job 39:8 · Job 40:20 · Ps 104:14

16Look now, his strength is in his thighs. His force is in the muscles of his belly.

17He moves his tail like a cedar. The sinews of his thighs are knit together.Cross-references: Job 41:23

18His bones are like tubes of bronze. His limbs are like bars of iron.Cross-references: Job 7:12 · Isa 48:4

19He is the chief of the ways of God. He who made him gives him his sword.Cross-references: Job 26:13 · Job 41:33 · Ps 7:12 · Ps 104:24 · Isa 27:1

20Surely the mountains produce food for him, where all the animals of the field play.Cross-references: Job 40:15 · Ps 104:14 · Ps 104:26 · Ps 147:8

21He lies under the lotus trees, in the covert of the reed, and the marsh.Cross-references: Isa 19:6 · Isa 35:7

22The lotuses cover him with their shade. The willows of the brook surround him.Cross-references: Lev 23:40 · Isa 15:7 · Ezek 17:5

23Behold, if a river overflows, he doesn’t tremble. He is confident, though the Jordan swells even to his mouth.Cross-references: Gen 13:10 · Josh 3:15 · Ps 55:8 · Isa 28:16 · Isa 37:25

24Shall any take him when he is on the watch, or pierce through his nose with a snare?Cross-references: Job 41:1