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40:1  The Lord went on:
40:2  “Do you still want to argue with the Almighty? Or will you yield? Do you—God’s critic—have the answers?”
40:3  Then Job replied to God:
40:4  “I am nothing—how could I ever find the answers? I lay my hand upon my mouth in silence.
40:5  I have said too much already.”
40:6  Then the Lord spoke to Job again from the whirlwind:
40:7  “Stand up like a man and brace yourself for battle. Let me ask you a question, and give me the answer.
40:8  Are you going to discredit my justice and condemn me so that you can say you are right?
40:9  Are you as strong as God, and can you shout as loudly as he?
40:10  All right then, put on your robes of state, your majesty and splendor.
40:11  Give vent to your anger. Let it overflow against the proud.
40:12  Humiliate the haughty with a glance; tread down the wicked where they stand.
40:13  Knock them into the dust, stone-faced in death.
40:14  If you can do that, then I’ll agree with you that your own strength can save you.
40:15  “Take a look at the hippopotamus! I made him, too, just as I made you! He eats grass like an ox.
40:16  See his powerful loins and the muscles of his belly.
40:17  His tail is as straight as a cedar. The sinews of his thighs are tightly knit together.
40:18  His vertebrae lie straight as a tube of brass. His ribs are like iron bars.
40:19  How ferocious he is among all of God’s creation, so let whoever hopes to master him bring a sharp sword!
40:20  The mountains offer their best food to him—the other wild animals on which he preys.
40:21  He lies down under the lotus plants, hidden by the reeds,
40:22  covered by their shade among the willows there beside the stream.
40:23  He is not disturbed by raging rivers, not even when the swelling Jordan rushes down upon him.
40:24  No one can catch him off guard or put a ring in his nose and lead him away.