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Job 40 Brenton's English Septuagint

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  • Individual translator
  • OT: Septuagint (Greek)
  • Septuagint Old Testament (no New Testament)
  • Formal (word for word)
  • 1844
  • Public domain

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Notes on this text (2)
Brenton Brenton's English Septuagint
WEB World English Bible (Classic, with Deuterocanon)
1 And the Lord God answered Job, and said,
1 Moreover Yahweh answered Job,
2 Will [any one] pervert judgment with the Mighty One? and he that reproves God, let him return it for answer.
2 “Shall he who argues contend with the Almighty? He who argues with God, let him answer it.”
3 And Job answered and said to the Lord,
3 Then Job answered Yahweh,
4 Why do I yet plead? being rebuked even while reproving the Lord: hearing such things, whereas I am nothing: and what shall I answer to these [arguments]? I will lay my hand upon my mouth.
4 “Behold, I am of small account. What will I answer you? I lay my hand on my mouth.
5 I have spoken once; but I will not do so a second time.
5 I have spoken once, and I will not answer; Yes, twice, but I will proceed no further.”
6 And the Lord yet again answered and spoke to Job out of the cloud, [saying],
6 Then Yahweh answered Job out of the whirlwind:
7 Nay, gird up now thy loins like a man; and I will ask thee, and do thou answer me.
7 “Now brace yourself like a man. I will question you, and you will answer me.
8 Do not set aside my judgment: and dost thou think that I have dealt with thee in any other way, than that thou mightest appear to be righteous?
8 Will you even annul my judgment? Will you condemn me, that you may be justified?
9 Hast thou an arm like the Lord's? or dost thou thunder with a voice like his?
9 Or do you have an arm like God? Can you thunder with a voice like him?
10 Assume now a lofty bearing and power; and clothe thyself with glory and honour.
10 “Now deck yourself with excellency and dignity. Array yourself with honor and majesty.
11 And send forth messengers with wrath; and lay low every haughty one.
11 Pour out the fury of your anger. Look at everyone who is proud, and bring him low.
12 Bring down also the proud man; and consume at once the ungodly.
12 Look at everyone who is proud, and humble him. Crush the wicked in their place.
13 And hide them together in the earth; and fill their faces with shame.
13 Hide them in the dust together. Bind their faces in the hidden place.
14 [Then] will I confess that thy right hand can save [thee].
14 Then I will also admit to you that your own right hand can save you.
15 But now look at the wild beasts with thee; they eat grass like oxen.
15 “See now behemoth, which I made as well as you. He eats grass as an ox.
16 Behold now, his strength is in his loins, and his force is in the navel of his belly.
16 Look now, his strength is in his thighs. His force is in the muscles of his belly.
17 He sets up his tail like a cypress; and his nerves are wrapped together.
17 He moves his tail like a cedar. The sinews of his thighs are knit together.
18 His sides are sides of brass; and his backbone is [as] cast iron.
18 His bones are like tubes of bronze. His limbs are like bars of iron.
19 This is the chief of the creation of the Lord; made to be played with by his angels.
19 He is the chief of the ways of God. He who made him gives him his sword.
20 And when he has gone up to a steep mountain, he causes joy to the quadrupeds in the deep.
20 Surely the mountains produce food for him, where all the animals of the field play.
21 He lies under trees of every kind, by the papyrus, and reed, and bulrush.
21 He lies under the lotus trees, in the covert of the reed, and the marsh.
22 And the great trees make a shadow over him with their branches, and [so do] the bushes of the field.
22 The lotuses cover him with their shade. The willows of the brook surround him.
23 If there should be a flood, he will not perceive it; he trusts that Jordan will rush up into his mouth.
23 Behold, if a river overflows, he doesn’t tremble. He is confident, though the Jordan swells even to his mouth.
24 [Yet one] shall take him in his sight; [one] shall catch [him] with a cord, and pierce his nose.
24 Shall any take him when he is on the watch, or pierce through his nose with a snare?
25 But wilt thou catch the serpent with a hook, and put a halter about his nose?
25 Not in this translation
26 Or wilt thou fasten a ring in his nostril, and bore his lip with a clasp?
26 Not in this translation
27 Will he address thee with a petition? softly, with the voice of a suppliant?
27 Not in this translation
28 And will he make a covenant with thee? and wilt thou take him for a perpetual servant?
28 Not in this translation
29 And wilt thou play with him as with a bird? or bind him as a sparrow for a child?
29 Not in this translation
30 And do the nations feed upon him, and the nations of the Phœnicians share him?
30 Not in this translation
31 And all the ships come together would not be able to bear the mere skin of his tail; neither [shall they carry] his head in fishing-vessels.
31 Not in this translation
32 But thou shalt lay thy hand upon him [once], remembering the war that is waged by his mouth; and let it not be done any more.
32 Not in this translation
Cross references (22)

Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.

  1. 1 Job 38:1; Job 40:6
  2. 2 1 Corinthians 2:16; Isaiah 40:14; Romans 11:34–36; Job 33:13; Isaiah 50:8
  3. 4 Proverbs 30:32; Job 29:9; Job 21:5; Job 42:6; Judges 18:19
  4. 5 Job 33:14; Psalm 62:11; Job 9:15; Job 9:3; Romans 3:19
  5. 6 Job 38:1; Psalm 50:3–4; 2 Peter 3:10–12; Hebrews 12:18–20
  6. 7 Job 38:3; Job 42:4; Job 23:3–4; Job 13:22
  7. 8 Romans 3:4; Job 32:2; Isaiah 28:18; Job 10:3; Psalm 51:4
  8. 9 Job 37:4–5; Isaiah 45:9; Psalm 89:13; Psalm 89:10; Exodus 15:6
  9. 10 Psalm 93:1; Psalm 149:4; Isaiah 59:17; Job 39:19; Psalm 104:1–2
  10. 11 Daniel 4:37; Isaiah 2:11–12; Isaiah 2:17; Nahum 1:6; Isaiah 10:12–19
  11. 12 Isaiah 63:3; Malachi 4:3; Psalm 60:12; 1 Samuel 2:7; Zechariah 10:5
  12. 13 Isaiah 2:10; Psalm 49:14; Job 36:13; Job 14:13; Esther 7:8
  13. 14 Romans 5:6; Psalm 44:3; Ephesians 2:4–9; Psalm 44:6; Isaiah 40:29
  14. 15 Psalm 104:14; Job 40:20; Genesis 1:24–26; Job 39:8
  15. 17 Job 41:23
  16. 18 Isaiah 48:4; Job 7:12
  17. 19 Job 41:33; Psalm 104:24; Job 26:13; Isaiah 27:1; Psalm 7:12
  18. 20 Psalm 104:26; Psalm 104:14; Job 40:15; Psalm 147:8–9
  19. 21 Isaiah 19:6–7; Isaiah 35:7
  20. 22 Isaiah 15:7; Leviticus 23:40; Ezekiel 17:5
  21. 23 Genesis 13:10; Isaiah 37:25; Isaiah 28:16; Joshua 3:15; Psalm 55:8
  22. 24 Job 41:1–2

Cross references: OpenBible.info (CC BY), drawn mainly from the public-domain Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. · Sources & licences

What the Fathers said

Passages from the Church Fathers that expound or quote this chapter, verbatim from the public-domain Schaff edition (19th-century English translations).

How these were chosen

“Commentary” is the opening of a homily or exposition on this chapter (John Chrysostom’s homilies, Augustine’s tractates, sermons and expositions of the Psalms). “Quotes” are sentences where the edition’s own footnotes identify a quotation of a verse here, kept only when the wording matches the verse. Only works whose authorship is not in doubt are used. Psalms follow the Hebrew/English numbering (Augustine numbers them as the Septuagint does: his Psalm 50 is Psalm 51 here).

  1. Quotes verse 40:23 Cyril of Jerusalem, Catechetical Lectures (Lecture III)

    According to Job, there was in the waters the dragon that draweth up Jordan into his mouth.

    Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 7 (1894)