English Standard Version

Job 40:8-22 English Standard Version (ESV)

8. Will you even put me in the wrong?Will you condemn me that you may be in the right?

9. Have you an arm like God,and can you thunder with a voice like his?

10. “Adorn yourself with majesty and dignity; clothe yourself with glory and splendor.

11. Pour out the overflowings of your anger,and look on everyone who is proud and abase him.

12. Look on everyone who is proud and bring him lowand tread down the wicked where they stand.

13. Hide them all in the dust together;bind their faces in the world below.

14. Then will I also acknowledge to youthat your own right hand can save you.

15. “Behold, Behemoth,which I made as I made you;he eats grass like an ox.

16. Behold, his strength in his loins,and his power in the muscles of his belly.

17. He makes his tail stiff like a cedar;the sinews of his thighs are knit together.

18. His bones are tubes of bronze,his limbs like bars of iron.

19. “He is the first of the works of God;let him who made him bring near his sword!

20. For the mountains yield food for himwhere all the wild beasts play.

21. Under the lotus plants he lies,in the shelter of the reeds and in the marsh.

22. For his shade the lotus trees cover him;the willows of the brook surround him.