God asks Job another question
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📚Then the LORD continued to answer Job and said, 2 📚✭“Will the one who contends with the Almighty correct him? Let the one who rebukes God answer it”.
Job’s answer to God
3 ✭Then Job answered the LORD and said,
4 📚“Look, I am insignificant✭. What answer can I give you? I lay my hand over my mouth.
5 📚Once I have spoken, but I will not answer. Yes, twice, but I will proceed no further”.
God questions Job further
6 📚Then the LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind and said,
7 📚✭“Now make yourself ready like a man. I will question you, and you instruct me.
8 📚✭Would you indeed do away with my judgment? Would you condemn me that you may be justified?
9 📚✭Do you have an arm like God’s, or can you thunder with a voice like his?
10 📚Then adorn yourself with majesty and splendour, and clothe yourself in glory and beauty.
11 📚Scatter the fury of your wrath, and see everyone who is proud and humble him.
12 📚Look on everyone who is proud and bring him low, and trample on the wicked in their place.
13 📚Hide them together in the dust; bind their faces in the concealed place.
14 📚Then I will also admit to you that your own right hand can save you.
God speaks of two great beasts
15 📚✭“Look now at the behemoth, which I made along with you. He eats grass like an ox.
16 Now see what strength he has in his loins, and what power in the muscles of his belly.
17 📚He moves his tail like a cedar. The sinews of his thighs are knit together.
18 📚His bones are like strong pieces of bronze. His limbs are like bars of iron.
19 📚“He is chief of the ways of God; the one who made him can bring near his sword.
20 📚Surely the mountains produce food for him, and all the beasts of the field play there.
21 📚He lies under the lotus plants, in the hidden place of the reeds and marshlands.
22 📚The lotus plants conceal him in their shadow; the willow trees by the stream surround him.
23 📚See, though a river overflows him, he is not alarmed; he is confident even though the Jordan should pour into his mouth.
24 📚Who can catch him about the eyes, or pierce his nose with a trap?