1 And YHWH answers Job and says: 2 “Is the striver with the Mighty instructed? The reprover of God, let him answer it.” 3 And Job answers YHWH and says: 4 “Behold, I have been vile, || What do I return to You? I have placed my hand on my mouth. 5 I have spoken once, and I do not answer, || And twice, and I do not add.” 6 And YHWH answers Job out of the whirlwind and says: 7 “Now gird your loins as a man, || I ask you, and you cause Me to know. 8 Do you also make My judgment void? Do you condemn Me, || That you may be righteous? 9 And do you have an arm like God? And do you thunder with a voice like His? 10 Now put on excellence and loftiness, || Indeed, put on splendor and beauty. 11 Scatter abroad the wrath of your anger, || And see every proud one, and make him low. 12 See every proud one—humble him, || And tread down the wicked in their place. 13 Hide them in the dust together, || Bind their faces in secret. 14 And even I praise you, || For your right hand gives salvation to you. 15 Now behold, behemoth, || That I made with you: He eats grass as an ox. 16 Now behold, his power [is] in his loins, || And his strength in the muscles of his belly. 17 He bends his tail as a cedar, || The sinews of his thighs are wrapped together, 18 His bones [are] tubes of bronze, || His bones [are] as a bar of iron. 19 He [is] a beginning of the ways of God, || His Maker [alone] brings His sword near; 20 For mountains bear food for him, || And all the beasts of the field play there. 21 He lies down under shades, || In a secret place of reed and marsh. 22 Shades cover him, [with] their shadow, || Willows of the brook cover him. 23 Behold, a flood oppresses—he does not hurry, || He is confident though Jordan || Comes forth to his mouth. 24 Does [one] take him by his eyes? || Does [one] pierce the nose with snares?”
Job · Literal Standard Version
Job 40 Literal Standard Version
Audio: World English Bible (WEB), read by Winfred W. Henson · About the recordings
Cross references (22)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Job 38:1; Job 40:6
- 2 1 Corinthians 2:16; Isaiah 40:14; Romans 11:34–36; Job 33:13; Isaiah 50:8
- 4 Proverbs 30:32; Job 29:9; Job 21:5; Job 42:6; Judges 18:19
- 5 Job 33:14; Psalm 62:11; Job 9:15; Job 9:3; Romans 3:19
- 6 Job 38:1; Psalm 50:3–4; 2 Peter 3:10–12; Hebrews 12:18–20
- 7 Job 38:3; Job 42:4; Job 23:3–4; Job 13:22
- 8 Romans 3:4; Job 32:2; Isaiah 28:18; Job 10:3; Psalm 51:4
- 9 Job 37:4–5; Isaiah 45:9; Psalm 89:13; Psalm 89:10; Exodus 15:6
- 10 Psalm 93:1; Psalm 149:4; Isaiah 59:17; Job 39:19; Psalm 104:1–2
- 11 Daniel 4:37; Isaiah 2:11–12; Isaiah 2:17; Nahum 1:6; Isaiah 10:12–19
- 12 Isaiah 63:3; Malachi 4:3; Psalm 60:12; 1 Samuel 2:7; Zechariah 10:5
- 13 Isaiah 2:10; Psalm 49:14; Job 36:13; Job 14:13; Esther 7:8
- 14 Romans 5:6; Psalm 44:3; Ephesians 2:4–9; Psalm 44:6; Isaiah 40:29
- 15 Psalm 104:14; Job 40:20; Genesis 1:24–26; Job 39:8
- 17 Job 41:23
- 18 Isaiah 48:4; Job 7:12
- 19 Job 41:33; Psalm 104:24; Job 26:13; Isaiah 27:1; Psalm 7:12
- 20 Psalm 104:26; Psalm 104:14; Job 40:15; Psalm 147:8–9
- 21 Isaiah 19:6–7; Isaiah 35:7
- 22 Isaiah 15:7; Leviticus 23:40; Ezekiel 17:5
- 23 Genesis 13:10; Isaiah 37:25; Isaiah 28:16; Joshua 3:15; Psalm 55:8
- 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).
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)