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Job 40
Septuagint (LXX2012) 40 compared with King James Version 40
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1And the Lord yet again answered and spoke to Job out of the cloud, [saying],
1Then answered the Lord unto Job out of the whirlwind, and said,
2Nay, gird up now your loins like a man; and I will ask you, and do you answer me.
2Gird up thy loins now like a man: I will demand of thee, and declare thou unto me.
3Do not set aside my judgment: and do you think that I have dealt with you in any other way, than that you might appear to be righteous?
3Wilt thou also disannul my judgment? wilt thou condemn me, that thou mayest be righteous?
4Have you an arm like the Lord's? or do you thunder with a voice like his?
4Hast thou an arm like God? or canst thou thunder with a voice like him?
5Assume now a lofty bearing and power; and clothe yourself with glory and honor.
5Deck thyself now with majesty and excellency; and array thyself with glory and beauty.
6And send forth messengers with wrath; and lay low every haughty one .
6Cast abroad the rage of thy wrath: and behold every one that is proud, and abase him.
7Bring down also the proud man; and consume at once the ungodly.
7Look on every one that is proud, and bring him low; and tread down the wicked in their place.
8And hide them together in the earth; and fill their faces with shame.
8Hide them in the dust together; and bind their faces in secret.
9[Then] will I confess that your right hand can save [you].
9Then will I also confess unto thee that thine own right hand can save thee.
10But now look at the wild beasts with you; they eat grass like oxen.
10Behold now behemoth, which I made with thee; he eateth grass as an ox.
11Behold now, his strength is in his loins, and his force is in the navel of his belly.
11Lo now, his strength is in his loins, and his force is in the navel of his belly.
12He sets up his tail like a cypress; and his nerves are wrapped together.
12He moveth his tail like a cedar: the sinews of his stones are wrapped together.
13His sides are sides of brass; and his backbone is [as] cast iron.
13His bones are as strong pieces of brass; his bones are like bars of iron.
14This is the chief of the creation of the Lord; made to be played with by his angels.
14He is the chief of the ways of God: he that made him can make his sword to approach unto him.
15And when he has gone up to a steep mountain, he causes joy to the quadrupeds in the deep.
15Surely the mountains bring him forth food, where all the beasts of the field play.
16He lies under trees of every kind, by the papyrus, and reed, and bulrush.
16He lieth under the shady trees, in the covert of the reed, and fens.
17And the great trees make a shadow over him with their branches, and [so do] the bushes of the field.
17The shady trees cover him with their shadow; the willows of the brook compass him about.
18If there should be a flood, he will not perceive it; he trust that Jordan will rush up into his mouth.
18Behold, he drinketh up a river, and hasteth not: he trusteth that he can draw up Jordan into his mouth.
19[Yet one] shall take him in his sight; [one] shall catch [him] with a cord, and pierce his nose .
19He taketh it with his eyes: his nose pierceth through snares.