And Jehovah answered Job, and said,
Is the censurer to correct with the Almighty?{HR}The reprover of God, let him answer it.
And Job answered Jehovah, and said,
Lo! I am vile: what shall I answer thee?{HR}I have laid my hand on my mouth;
Once have I spoken, but I will not reply,{HR}Yea, twice, but I will add no more.
And Jehovah answered Job out of the storm, and said,
Gird up now thy loins like a man:{HR}I will ask thee, and cause thou me to know.
Wilt thou also annul my judgment?{HR}Wilt thou condemn me that thou mayest be justified?
Or hast thou an arm like God (El),{HR}And with a voice like him dost thou thunder?
Put on, then, majesty and grandeur,{HR}And honour and beauty put on;
Scatter abroad the outbursts of thine anger,{HR}See every proud one, and humble him;
See every proud one — make him bow,{HR}And tread down the wicked in their place;
Hide them in the dust together; bind their faces in secret:
Then even I will praise thee, that thy right hand saveth thee.
Behold, now, Behemoth, which I made with thee:{HR}He eateth chives as an ox.
Behold, now, his strength [is] in his loins,{HR}And his might in the muscles of his belly.
As a cedar he bendeth his tail;{HR}The sinews of his thighs are knit together,
His bones [are] tubes of copper, his spine as a bar of iron.
He [is] chief of the ways of God:{HR}His Maker presented his scythe,
For the mountains bring food for him,{HR}And all the beasts of the field play there.
Under the lotuses he lieth down,{HR}In the covert of the reed and the fen;
The lotuses cover him with their shade,{HR}The osiers of the water-course cover him.
Lo, a flood overfloweth — he hasteth not away,{HR}He is confident when a Jordan rusheth to his mouth.
Doth [one] take him before his eyes?{HR}Doth [he] pierce through the nose with snares?