Job 40 — Douay-Rheims Bible

And the Lord answering Job out of the whirlwind, said:● Gird up thy loins like a man: I will ask thee, and do thou tell me.● Wilt thou make void my judgment: and condemn me, that thou mayst be justified?● And hast thou an arm like God, and canst thou thunder with a voice like him?● Clothe thyself with beauty, and set thyself up on high, and be glorious, and put on goodly garments.● Scatter the proud in thy indignation, and behold every arrogant man, and humble him.● Look on all that are proud, and confound them, and crush the wicked in their place,● Hide them in the dust together, and plunge their faces into the pit.● Then I will confess that thy right hand is able to save thee.● Behold behemoth whom I made with thee, he eateth grass like an ox.● His strength is in his loins, and his force in the navel of his belly.● He setteth up his tail like a cedar, the sinews of his testicles are wrapped together.● His bones are like pipes of brass, his gristle like plates of iron.● He is the beginning of the ways of God, who made him, he will apply his sword.● To him the mountains bring forth grass: there all the beasts of the field shall play.● He sleepeth under the shadow, in the covert of the reed, and in moist places.● The shades cover his shadow, the willows of the brook shall compass him about.● Behold, he will drink up a river, and not wonder: and he trusteth that the Jordan may run into his mouth.● In his eyes as with a hook he shall take him, and bore through his nostrils with stakes.● Canst thou draw out the leviathan with a hook, or canst thou tie his tongue with a cord?● Canst thou put a ring in his nose, or bore through his jaw with a buckle?● Will he make many supplications to thee, or speak soft words to thee?● Will he make a covenant with thee, and wilt thou take him to be a servant for ever,● Shalt thou play with him as with a bird, or tie him up for thy handmaids?● Shall friends cut him in pieces, shall merchants divide him?● Wilt thou fill nets with his skin, and the cabins of fishes with his head?● Lay thy hand upon him: remember the battle, and speak no more.● Behold his hope shall fail him, and in the sight of all he shall be cast down.●