The Lord Challenges Job
6 Then the LORD
1answered Job out of the whirlwind and said:
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2"Dress for action like a man;
3I will question you, and you make it known to me.
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Will you even put me in the wrong? Will you condemn me that
4you may be in the right?
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Have you
5an arm like God, and can you thunder with
6a voice like his?
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"Adorn yourself with majesty and dignity;
7clothe yourself with glory and splendor.
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Pour out the overflowings of your anger, and look on everyone who is
8proud and abase him.
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Look on everyone who is proud and bring him low and
9tread down the wicked
10where they stand.
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11Hide them all in
12the dust together; bind their faces in the world below.
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Then will I also acknowledge to you that your own
13right hand can save you.
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"Behold, Behemoth, which I made as I made you; he eats
14grass like an ox.
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Behold, his strength in his loins, and his power in the muscles of his belly.
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He makes his tail stiff like a cedar; the sinews of his thighs are knit together.
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His bones are tubes of bronze, his limbs like bars of iron.
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"He is
15the first of
16the works of God; let him who made him bring near his sword!
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For the mountains yield food for him where all the wild beasts play.
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Under the lotus plants he lies, in the shelter of
17the reeds and in the marsh.
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For his shade the lotus trees cover him; the willows of the brook surround him.
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Behold, if the river is turbulent he is not frightened; he is confident though Jordan rushes against his mouth.
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Can one take him by his eyes, or pierce his nose with a snare?