Job 40 Clementine Vulgate
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1 Respondens autem Dominus Job de turbine, dixit:
1 Moreover Yahweh answered Job,
2 [Accinge sicut vir lumbos tuos: interrogabo te, et indica mihi.
2 “Shall he who argues contend with the Almighty? He who argues with God, let him answer it.”
3 Numquid irritum facies judicium meum, et condemnabis me, ut tu justificeris?
3 Then Job answered Yahweh,
4 Et si habes brachium sicut Deus? et si voce simili tonas?
4 “Behold, I am of small account. What will I answer you? I lay my hand on my mouth.
5 Circumda tibi decorem, et in sublime erigere, et esto gloriosus, et speciosis induere vestibus.
5 I have spoken once, and I will not answer; Yes, twice, but I will proceed no further.”
6 Disperge superbos in furore tuo, et respiciens omnem arrogantem humilia.
6 Then Yahweh answered Job out of the whirlwind:
7 Respice cunctos superbos, et confunde eos, et contere impios in loco suo.
7 “Now brace yourself like a man. I will question you, and you will answer me.
8 Absconde eos in pulvere simul, et facies eorum demerge in foveam.
8 Will you even annul my judgment? Will you condemn me, that you may be justified?
9 Et ego confitebor quod salvare te possit dextera tua.
9 Or do you have an arm like God? Can you thunder with a voice like him?
10 Ecce behemoth quem feci tecum, fœnum quasi bos comedet.
10 “Now deck yourself with excellency and dignity. Array yourself with honor and majesty.
11 Fortitudo ejus in lumbis ejus, et virtus illius in umbilico ventris ejus.
11 Pour out the fury of your anger. Look at everyone who is proud, and bring him low.
12 Stringit caudam suam quasi cedrum; nervi testiculorum ejus perplexi sunt.
12 Look at everyone who is proud, and humble him. Crush the wicked in their place.
13 Ossa ejus velut fistulæ æris; cartilago illius quasi laminæ ferreæ.
13 Hide them in the dust together. Bind their faces in the hidden place.
14 Ipse est principium viarum Dei: qui fecit eum applicabit gladium ejus.
14 Then I will also admit to you that your own right hand can save you.
15 Huic montes herbas ferunt: omnes bestiæ agri ludent ibi.
15 “See now behemoth, which I made as well as you. He eats grass as an ox.
16 Sub umbra dormit in secreto calami, et in locis humentibus.
16 Look now, his strength is in his thighs. His force is in the muscles of his belly.
17 Protegunt umbræ umbram ejus: circumdabunt eum salices torrentis.
17 He moves his tail like a cedar. The sinews of his thighs are knit together.
18 Ecce absorbebit fluvium, et non mirabitur, et habet fiduciam quod influat Jordanis in os ejus.
18 His bones are like tubes of bronze. His limbs are like bars of iron.
19 In oculis ejus quasi hamo capiet eum, et in sudibus perforabit nares ejus.
19 He is the chief of the ways of God. He who made him gives him his sword.
20 An extrahere poteris Leviathan hamo, et fune ligabis linguam ejus?
20 Surely the mountains produce food for him, where all the animals of the field play.
21 Numquid pones circulum in naribus ejus, aut armilla perforabis maxillam ejus?
21 He lies under the lotus trees, in the covert of the reed, and the marsh.
22 Numquid multiplicabit ad te preces, aut loquetur tibi mollia?
22 The lotuses cover him with their shade. The willows of the brook surround him.
23 Numquid feriet tecum pactum, et accipies eum servum sempiternum?
23 Behold, if a river overflows, he doesn’t tremble. He is confident, though the Jordan swells even to his mouth.
24 Numquid illudes ei quasi avi, aut ligabis eum ancillis tuis?
24 Shall any take him when he is on the watch, or pierce through his nose with a snare?
25 Concident eum amici? divident illum negotiatores?
25 Not in this translation
26 Numquid implebis sagenas pelle ejus, et gurgustium piscium capite illius?
26 Not in this translation
27 Pone super eum manum tuam: memento belli, nec ultra addas loqui.
27 Not in this translation
28 Ecce spes ejus frustrabitur eum, et videntibus cunctis præcipitabitur.]
28 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 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
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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)